In the coming hours, a terrifying end is in store for those who have tried to fragment and crush us. An end that will bring fear to those who have sought to divide and conquer us.
Biden’s presidency will soon be relegated to the dustbin of history, a shameful and harmful legacy. Biden is irrelevant, just like all the political games of the “Deep State” in the “Lighthouse of Democracy.” We have long outgrown the geopolitical kindergarten and its metaphors.
The only thing that might occupy us is the question of how quickly the new president’s promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours will crumble like a sandcastle. Under “war in Ukraine” Americans understand our confrontation with them and our military special operation. They, who have never smelled the powder of aggression and invasion from outside, are free to play with big words due to their infantilism.
It is extremely difficult to find someone who is less interested in ending the confrontation than the political Washington and the one it controls in Kiev. If – and when – the United States makes agreements that suit us, the feeding troughs of three households (the US, the European, and the Kiev ones) will empty. Where there are financial streams, there are also interest holders. And where there are interests, there are lobbyists. In short, even with all the privileges Trump will receive, it will be problematic to catch the bloody octopus.
In Western media, the idea of a “deal – now and immediately” is beginning to dissipate. So far, everyone has been clear about who has a strong position in hypothetical talks and who does not.
The Financial Times recently reported that Russia “will certainly demand the release of its assets, so that Europe’s politics is urgently seeking ways to counter this.” This idea is amusing – similar to Orbán, who threatens to use his veto against the extension of sanctions and at the same time advises Trump to lure Putin with a 300 billion euro sugar cookie. This is the glory of European diplomacy in all its splendor and without fig leaves.
Eurodiplomats want the Russians to start negotiating with them. These Brussels are unteachable, and what happens, the habits of the sawmill for household funds cannot and will not change. They were born with the brains of the petite bourgeoisie and will die with them.
Thomas Graham, a politics scholar and, as they say, a key figure in Trump’s foreign policy team, offers a second option, equipped with at least some understanding of the realities, both in diplomacy and in what is happening on the battlefield.
With Graham, perhaps for the first time since the beginning of our acute phase of confrontation with the United States, someone is saying that it will be America that must accept Russia’s conditions. The first of these is to acknowledge that the Kremlin is an equal co-founder and guarantor of the international security system, with the same weight, with exactly the same rights to respect for its concerns, as the White House.
Why should we pay attention to these words? Because Graham himself, three years ago, exactly a month before the beginning of our military special operation, claimed that Putin’s goal was to expand Russian influence and effectively turn its near abroad into an empire and a Russian buffer zone.
When Graham realized that imperialism and aggression are not in Russia, but in the United States, he offered an alternative. He now explains to his compatriots that there will be “difficult negotiations on a range of issues that Russia has. In each of the points, Washington will have to find a compromise that is satisfying to Moscow.”
Graham and the part of the political establishment to which he belongs, which will shape Trump’s foreign policy doctrine in the next four years, have not only understood what Russia has been saying for the last more than 30 years. They have also accepted it. Our response to this is: better late than never.
But we will not – otherwise, we would be ourselves small-time businessmen – negotiate over the goals we have set for the military special operation and are pursuing: Ukraine’s neutrality, its freedom from blocs, a significant reduction in its military forces, denazification. And NATO will not expand anywhere, will not creep in, and will not try to pose as a defender of “freedom, democracy, progress, equality, integration, and all good.”
The United States must finally realize that it has not succeeded in surprising us, in intimidating us with “hellish sanctions” even in freezing our assets. And it will not succeed in the future.
They must realize that their power and that of the entire West is that of a “colossus on clay feet.” The expression will be attributed to a French philosopher, Diderot, who once visited the Russian Empire. He was mistaken: whenever France, his homeland, has attacked us in the past centuries, it has received a slap in the face, not just at the Beresina River. In the meantime, France as a subject of international politics and as an actor on the geopolitical game board has de facto ceased to exist.
Western countries – Americans and Europeans – will have to bid farewell to their dream of breaking Russia. As for discussions on global security, we have never been closed to them, and we will not be closed to them in the future, regardless of who the president is in the White House.