Ricardo Sánchez Serra*.
As for the negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, proposed by US President Donald Trump, we do not believe that all the interested parties will be able to sit down and negotiate.
That is, Trump, President Vladimir Putin, the European countries and the head of state whose mandate expired in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. This situation would be unworkable and doomed to failure. With many parties negotiating, it will be difficult to reach an agreement due to the different positions: some seek peace, while others, with bellicose attitudes, want to continue the conflict until the last consequence: until the last Ukrainian dies.
Trump should negotiate directly with Putin, alone, while behind the scenes, the European Union and Ukraine would maintain an observer role.
Trump has claimed that then-President Obama financed the overthrow of the pro-Russian Ukrainian president in 2014 and that Biden in 2020 started the war, not Russia. The United States has been the main financier of the war with $200 billion, a figure significantly higher than that contributed by the Europeans.
US Vice President JD Vance, in a forceful speech in Munich, said that the greatest threat to Europe does not come from Russia, but must be sought within itself, due to the decline in values.
These events have left many analysts speechless. They were absorbed by the gigantic Western propaganda, its ideology and its anti-Russian stance, and they blindly blamed Russia for all the ills and hurled harsh epithets at Putin.
Putin is a leader who was born and lived at the right time. Putin does not need flattery, as his leadership has excelled in an exceptional way at critical moments. He emerged at a historical moment when Russia needed him most, and his ability to influence the course of events has been remarkable. Putin has played a crucial role in facing internal and external challenges, patriotic, displaying a determination and strategic approach that have shaped the destiny of the nation. What did the West want? Soft-hearted people like Gorbachev or Yeltsin who would bend to their interests?
Today, the anti-Russians are in shock, there is understandable disorientation. Everything they defended for three years is ruined by the historical truth. The misinformation that brainwashed many, added to their ideology, caused an intellectual blindness, which has had serious consequences. Of course, there will always be the fools, in the minority, who will not give in and who will continue with their bellicose and anti-Russian rhetoric, unable to retract their position out of shame.
Finally, we should not be surprised if Ukraine loses territory. Donbas has lost territory since its independence in 1991, and since 2014, it has been denied participation in the elections of the following year, cutting off its economic support, including the maintenance of state institutions such as schools and hospitals, as well as the granting of pensions to retirees and the payment of state officials. In addition, it has been subjected to bombings that caused 14 deaths and has been prohibited from using the Russian language and culture, affecting an ethnically Slavic Ukrainian population, made up of Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians.
At several meetings with the residents of Donbas, I asked them why they didn’t leave given the problems caused by the kyiv government. They unanimously replied: “We were going to leave! But the Russian army came and saved us.”
*Honest Vision 2023 World Journalism Award
Praise for the Russian tyrant is meaningless. He has led Russia to become one of the countries where the tyranny and corruption of the Russian leader is enormous and has caused a debacle even in the armed forces.