Afrasianet - Ab El, Halim Kandil - Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently seemed to be placing explosive bombs under the bed of the West-American European alliance, Putin's victory at the Alaska summit was sweeping even in body language, and he capitalized on US President Donald Trump's fondness for performing reality TV roles, while reality was Putin himself, the Russian president's heel was higher than Trump's, and perhaps even higher than his fiery head, admiring the Russian president's intelligence, and his sudden moves on the global chessboard. The targeted peace map after the three-and-a-half-year war in Ukraine to date, and Putin removed the demand for a ceasefire first, from the negotiating tables, and laid the base of the comprehensive agreement first, before talking about a ceasefire.
Trump swallowed Putin's bold attack and trick, and began to display it as a professor in a humiliating meeting with seven senior European leaders, who in turn swallowed it under duress, and handed it over with them by Ukrainian President Zelensky, who this time survived the repetition of a famous insult, which was inflicted on him in the Oval Office meeting in late February, and took off his military uniform to wear a black uniform this time, and Trump treated him with tempting kindness in the bilateral meeting, but Trump transferred his fondness for insults this time to European leaders who are committed to full official elegance. Those lined up in front of him and around him on low seats, and Trump left them in a state of anticipation waiting for the end of a lengthy call, which Trump had with Putin, and he did not return his guests with anything specific to heal the stigma of waiting, except for Trump's quest for Putin to arrange a meeting with Zelensky, followed by a trilateral meeting between Putin, Trump, and Zelensky.
Putin has moved the packages of contradictions to the stone of the entire West, and Trump has made his own messenger to the great task, so Trump must pressure and convince Zelensky to cede the territories that Russia wants.
In summary, Putin has begun to put the guiding guide to the path of rational negotiations, and with all the conditions declared by Russia in the Ukrainian field, the original rule of negotiation, any negotiation, is that no one wins at the dialogue tables beyond the range of his guns in the war, and at this moment of the most violent and longest war of attrition within Europe since World War II, Russia seems to be on the verge of a complete military decisiveness, and is achieving steady apparent military progress in the field of clash, with 54 countries led by Washington, and adds one one, two and three towns a day in its long-term offensive, which Moscow calls a special military operation, and without having to declare war and a general emergency, exceeding the announced limited mobilization by only 1%, while the Russian economy is recovering spectacularly, despite the imposition of more than 24,000 economic sanctions by the American, European and global West, which has not substantially affected Russia's military readiness, nor the activity of the Russian military-industrial complex, whose annual output is four times more than what it produces The whole West, which led to an apparent paradox in calculating the results, Washington was openly seeking to make Ukraine a second Afghanistan for the Russians, as Moscow's war in Afghanistan was one of the elements of the exhaustion and dissolution of the former Soviet Union, and the West wanted to repeat the same story with the Russian Federation in the Ukrainian field, and the surprise that exhausted and exhausted the Western bets was that Ukraine and its war turned into a graveyard and Afghanistan is indeed a second one, but for the Americans and NATO this time, Washington escaped in a humiliating way In the way of the escape of the defeated.
Trump was looking for a less humiliating way for himself, and he went to flounder in illusions that followed each other, in the way he claimed in his last election campaign, that he was able to stop the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, but he quickly fell into the trap of Putin, with whom he made six lengthy phone calls. He felt a chronic headache in his head that was devoid of orange hair, he felt that Putin was manipulating him, and he repeatedly expressed his distress, and until he threatened after the sixth marathon call, and gave a final ultimatum to the Russian president, which he later reduced from fifty days to ten days, and sent his special envoy, the contractor Steve Vitkov, to meet with Putin two days before the expiration of the deadline and its partners in China and India in particular, and he had paved the way for a retreat before it, and announced that sanctions do not affect the Russian economy, and the way out that Putin facilitated was the holding of the Alaska summit meeting between the American and Russian presidents, and the holding of the meeting itself seemed like a mockery of the illusions of isolating Russia internationally.
Instead, to reap Russian gains, and to recognize the priority of the battle lines on the ground, Putin sold the story to the US president as a land swap, while all the territory in question is located within the borders of Ukraine, which Russia controlled about a quarter of its total territory east and south, from Crimea and the port of Sevastopol, to the Donbas provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk, in addition to most of the areas of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson provinces east of the Dnipro River Moscow is offering very limited areas of additional infiltration, and on the condition that Ukrainian forces voluntarily withdraw from what is left in its hands west of Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian forces are still holding the cities of Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, and others, and more than a quarter of the area of Donetsk is still in Ukrainian hands, and Russian forces are advancing rapidly to control the remaining quarter, which is what Putin is trying to cut through negotiations, perhaps because of the importance of Donetsk in the heart of the Donbas region, which is the region richest with its advanced industrial facilities and rare precious metal mines in Ukraine All of this, which is what is salivating for Trump, who seeks to reap economic benefits from investment cooperation with Russia, although the smarter Putin seeks to reap greater advantages, ending the series of economic sanctions imposed on Russia, and recovering $300 billion in Russian assets frozen by the American and European West, which Trump seems inclined to respond to, and with the hope that seems like the devil's nest in heaven, is to try to break the ties of the close link between Moscow and Beijing, and between Putin and his companion, Chinese President Xi Jinping, which is What Putin does not accept, of course, is that the Russian president sees the war in Ukraine from a broader historical point of view, which sees in the results of the war a crossing bridge from a unipolar world of America to a multipolar world, in which Russia, along with Washington and Beijing, is a third party on the map of the world's greatest powers.
Putin is well aware of Trump's psychology, who hates the Europeans, and rejoices in insulting and blackmailing them, as was done by forcing them to double their expenses in the NATO budget, and in imposing unfair trade relations rules, depriving Europeans of the previous customs benefits, and dragging them to import American gas, oil, cars, and food products in larger quantities.
The story of the security guarantees for Ukraine, which Putin did not object to in principle, although he rejects the presence of any European troops on the territory of the rest of Ukraine, while Trump does not seem eager to participate in them, except within narrow limits, does not clash with his pledge to never include Ukraine in NATO, and Russia may not care much about the talks of guarantees, and Russia itself has already provided guarantees with Washington and London Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum in late 1994, and this did not prevent Russian military action in 2014, nor without a return to the war that is underway today, and until further notice, it may not come soon.