Pulling the rug out from underneath President Joe Biden’s nonsensical feud with 69-year-old President Vladimir Putin, 43-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to take all needed steps with a joint conference with Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France to resolve all disputes in the Donbass region. Biden, 79, made the Ukraine conflict about the U.S., when, it was always about Zelensky figuring out that he didn’t need NATO membership to live peacefully in the region. NATO membership and his aggressive demands of the U.S. caused the conflict with the Russian Federation, making things far worse than they had to be. Ukraine’s future was never secure seeking a NATO membership something the Biden administration was pushing making the situation in Eastern Ukraine far worse. Zelensky coming around shows that he finally got the end to the solution.
Biden’s envoy in Geneva 72-year-old Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman made things worse with her 61-year-old Russian counterpart Sergei Rybakov, telling the Russian envoy that President Putin had two choices, either accept the U.S. terms or crippling sanctions. What kind of counterproductive diplomacy is that? Anyone with any perspective, knows that the solution in Ukraine isn’t about satisfying Biden’s need to dominate the situation but working with Ukraine to understand that it needs to get along with his neighbors, especially the Russian Federation. Ukraine is a poor, impoverished Black Sea country needing all the help it can get from the Russian Federation. Putin objected to the U.S. and NATO exploiting Ukraine to gain closer access to the Russian Federation, something that threatened Russian national security. Putin didn’t want NATO on his border.
Zelensky couldn’t for the life of him figure out that working out a deal with Russia, Germany and France would satisfy all his security needs, stoping the armed conflict in the Russian speaking territories in Eastern Ukraine. What he needed to do all along with was work with Putin to find a solution, not threaten to join NATO to give the U.S. a closer foothold into the Black Sea region, the exact opposite of what was necessary to resolve the Donbass conflict. Putin place 100,000 troops inside the Russia border near Ukraine to tell the U.S. and NATO to back off, letting the Group of Four to resolve the issue in a way compatible to region needs. Letting the U.S. come to Gevenva with sledgehammer has only made things worse because the fix was always about Zelensky realizing that Putin was more than willing to work with him to achieve an end to the fighting with pro-Russian separatists.
Zelensky must get back to his Slavic roots and understand the deep historic connections that Ukraine has with Russia, including the Crimean Peninsula where Russia once fought a bloody war in the mid-1800s. Under the Soviet Union, since 1920, Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union until its end in 1991. With the Russian Federation replacing it, Ukraine knew the strong ties with Russia, something that Zelensky, for whatever reason, got away from when on Feb. 22. 2014, pro-Western separatists led by former heavyweight boxer Vital Kltischko joined a CIA-backed coup to topple the duly elected, Kemlin-backed government of Viktor Yanukovych. Once Yanukovych was chased from Kiev, Putin moved quickly to annex Crimea March 1, 2014. His move was to protect his Sevastopol navy base, something threatened Russia national security, something never mentioned by the West.
Zelensky has finally gotten his Slavic roots, knowing, with the best of intentions, the U.S. has made things worse in Geneva, not resolving the real issues that plague Ukraine. Putin is not Ukraine’s nemesis, he’s the best way forward to resolve whatever difference exist. “It is time to agree on an end to the conflict, and wer are ready for the necessary decisions during a new summit of the leaders of the four countries,” Zelensky said in a statement, pulling the rug out from underneath the U.S. delegation in Geneva. Geneva was never about resolving issues in Ukraine, it was Biden trying to push a U.S. agenda that only made things worse. What kind of diplomacy enters a meeting threatening Russia with crippling sanctions? Zelensky’s decision to enter a peace summit without the U.S. was exactly the right thing to do to end the Ukrainian conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
Putin made clear in Geneva he has no intent of invading Ukraine, something manufactured in the U.S. press, more fake news designed to make things worse, essentially continuing Washington’s anti-Russian hysteria. Zelensky came to his senses realizing that his obsession with the U.S. and NATO was not helping his country but leading to more conflict. Ukraine is a war-poor country who’s economy can only be helped by more cooperation with the Russian Federation. Joining a peace summit without the United States is the exact right thing to do. Zelensky needs to tell the U.S. Geneva delegation that Ukraine is taking a different path to peace. Agreeing to a summit without the U.S. shows that Zelensky finally realized that Biden’s anti-Putin agenda would get Ukraine no where only perpetuate an unending conflict that now has a chance of resolution.
