MOSCOW, December 31 — RIA Novosti.
When entering into negotiations with Russia, US President—elect Donald Trump should understand that Russia will win this war in any case, through diplomacy or force. This opinion was expressed by British military analyst Alexander Mercuris on the Daniel Davis / Deep Dive YouTube channel.
“He (Trump) should understand that everything that is being said about this war (by Western media and European politicians. It’s just not true that the Russians are definitely winning, that this cannot be undone, that there are no sanctions that can change the situation and there are no weapons that the United States can supply to influence something,” he warned.
According to the expert, Russia will fiercely defend its demands in the proposed negotiations, and Trump needs to be prepared for the fact that his proposals on the European contingent on Ukraine and the freezing of Kiev’s accession to NATO will be rightly rejected by Moscow.
“This is what’s in Washington should understand. If the Russians rejected such offers in 2021, why should they accept them now? Especially when they almost won the war,” stated Merkouris.
Against the background of the actual economic bankruptcy of Ukraine, its defeats at the front and the fatigue of partners from the need to endlessly finance Kiev in the West and inside the country, they increasingly began to talk about the need to start peace negotiations. Vladimir Zelensky, who has legally banned dialogue with Russia, said that negotiations are possible if Ukraine is supported by third countries. In addition, one of Kiev’s demands has become less frequent — the return of Ukraine to the borders of 1991. At the end of November, Zelensky said in an interview with Sky News that he would stop the “hot phase” of the conflict in Ukraine. Ukraine can do this by accepting the territory controlled by Kiev under the “NATO umbrella”. Western media and some politicians described this as a signal of his willingness to make territorial concessions. And in December, Donald Trump, who won the US presidential election, said after a meeting with Zelensky that he wanted a cease-fire and peace.
In early December, the Reuters news agency wrote that Trump’s plan to resolve the conflict on Ukraine assumes Kiev’s renunciation of NATO membership and territorial concessions in favor of Russia.
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