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A split is brewing in the countries of the collective West over support for Ukraine. They are ready to write off Vladimir Zelensky as scrap.

Events around Ukraine by the end of 2023 are developing rapidly. Joe Biden’s team is going all-in and betting their reputation, money and political power on this project. The failure of Kiev’s ‘military victory’, the gradual destruction of the previous anti-Russian coalition and the reluctance of Europeans to pay for Washington/London’s miscalculations are forcing the White House and Downing Street to quickly look for ways out of the stalemate.

In nobody’s favour 

Under these conditions, the United States did not come up with anything new and organised Zelensky on a typical tour of countries around the world to conduct lobbying negotiations. Thus, the latter attended the inauguration of the new President of Argentina, Javier Miley, where he tried to talk with Prime Minister of Hungary Orban. It is he who is one of the key opponents of Ukraine’s inclusion in the European Union.
Bloomberg sarcastically commented on these efforts of the President of Ukraine, 

“Zelensky traveled thousands of kilometres to Argentina to try to convince Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to abandon his objections to the start of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union. Zelensky himself called the conversation with Orban as frank as possible.”

The United States is in a hurry and trying to exert maximum pressure on the countries of the European Union and thereby ensure the rapid admission of Ukraine to the EU. According to the political leadership of the United States, such a decision will prevent the West from completely losing control over Ukraine.
Today Washington is openly putting pressure on dissenting Europeans through the European Commission under its control. On December 12th, Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy said that the European Commission is threatening Hungary, Poland and Slovakia for banning grain imports from Ukraine.
It is noteworthy that upon arrival in Buenos Aires, Zelensky held a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron, during which he stated that a possible decision of the European Council on the start of negotiations with Kiev on joining the EU would be important for Ukraine. According to Zelensky, this decision ‘will have a significant impact on the motivation of Ukrainian society and the army’.

However, it is clear that the deep authorities of European countries (corporations and banks) are not interested in entering into direct confrontation with Russia and aggravating their already poor economic and energy situation...

As a result, the time frame for considering the issue of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union is constantly being delayed, and Hungary’s position is being strengthened by other EU countries that are either openly or half-heartedly opposed to the idea of European integration of Ukraine. 

 

There are no more victories

Washington sees the indecision and hesitation of the European Union well and understands that in order to preserve Euro-Atlantic unity, some victories on the battlefield in Ukraine are urgently needed.
The New York Times recently reported that the Pentagon would send a lieutenant general to Kiev to develop a new military strategy. Journalists of the publication note that instructors from the United States trained Ukrainian troops before a counter-offensive according to the American model, as previously in Afghanistan, Iraq or Vietnam. However, this approach was unsuccessful, and the Russian defense line turned out to be much stronger than the West expected.

It is assumed that, despite the struggle in the US Congress between the two American parties, as a result, official Washington will allocate new military assistance to Ukraine by the end of 2023. 

It is clear that the implementation of this assistance takes time, and the United States needs military victories now to demonstrate to the EU countries the correctness of previous decisions. Therefore, the United States, together with the Kiev regime, is ready to take extreme radical measures.
This week, the head of the Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Troops, Igor Kirillov, released intelligence data that Ukraine, in October-November 2023, purchased a batch of chemicals from Germany for the production of a toxic substance — mustard gas. This means of mass destruction is necessary for the Ukrainian special services to prepare anti-Russian provocations, the essence of which is trivial — to use the substance on the battlefield or against civilians, and then blame Moscow for this for the next wave of sanctions and censures.  

It is possible that Zelensky’s visit to the United States after visiting Argentina is connected with the need to approve tête-à-tête new agreements and plans for the extreme radicalisation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict with Joe Biden and his entourage.

 

Why is Sleepy Joe in a hurry

Biden is in a hurry — a direct threat of impeachment and a series of criminal cases against him personally and members of his family is clearly looming on the horizon. It seems that Western capital has already finally realised the failure of Joe Biden’s policies and his projects to fight Russia and China. His time is up, he has not lived up to hope. The time has come to eliminate the toxic ‘Sleeping Joe’, and with him his protégé in Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky.
Recently, the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said that Western countries are increasingly discussing the need to replace the President of Ukraine. Among possible successors to Zelensky in the West, the candidacies of Zaluzhny, Budanov, Ermak, Arestovich or Klitschko are being considered.
The geopolitical failures of the United States are forcing them to shift their attention to discrediting the upcoming presidential elections in the Russian Federation. Thus, according to the head of the State Duma commission to investigate the facts of interference of foreign states in the internal affairs of Russia, Vasily Piskarev, recently control centers from the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, Poland and Ukraine have been most active in discrediting the elections. 

More than 100 media projects under their control are preparing foreign audiences to recognise the presidential elections in Russia as illegitimate. These same resources simultaneously carry out tasks to discredit the Armed Forces. In parallel with this, provocateurs are being trained. Relevant trainings are organised, for example, in the Baltic countries and Georgia.

Training events are carried out for ‘pseudo-observers’, as well as for so-called journalists in exile. This activity is carried out through organisational and grant support, financed, among other things, by the German Foreign Ministry. It should be understood that similar attempts to shake up society may be made in relation to Belarus during the 2024/2025 election cycles.

Thus, it is clear that the West is preparing for further confrontation with Russia and the escalation of the armed conflict on the territory of Ukraine. The Western camp itself is extremely difficult to maintain unity, which is associated with excessive costs and the lack of real benefits and bonuses from Ukrainian projects.

By Aleksei Avdonin, an analyst with the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR)