Along with spring, there’s a lot of speculation about Ukraine in the air around our nation’s capital. President Donald Trump cryptically hinted that he’s working with Vladimir Putin on some “contracts.” They’re quietly carving up Eastern Europe. There will be a ceasefire and peace “pretty soon,” Trump predicts. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is about realize he just diplomatically woke up with a horse’s head in his bed because he didn’t take the offer he couldn’t refuse.
Peace in Ukraine
Peace will soon be coming to Ukraine. It will be coming at a price. Their casually dressed President Volodymyr Zelenskyy can’t seem to accept the reality of his situation.
Instead of signing the mineral deal Trump demanded as a fee for his negotiating services, Zelenskyy balked and tried to extort “guarantees” of an outcome. It doesn’t work that way.
Throwing him out of the White House didn’t get the Ukrainian’s attention. Trump gave him a few days to calm down and ponder his position. After being told by NATO that they can’t help because Europe is broke, Zelenskyy still didn’t decide to cooperate.
Trump offered him a new deal to pay for our help. Let U.S. run the nuclear power plant. Nope, no deal. Okay, since that’s how you want it, hey Vlad, which parts of Ukraine would you like?
There will be peace and it will be soon. It can come sooner than they expected since Trump no longer has an incentive to fight real hard for Ukraine in the deal. It would have been a different story if Zelenskyy had held up his end of the bargain. Since he didn’t, why go out of the way in negotiations.
“They are fighting against each other,” Trump noted on Friday, March 21. “I think we’re going to have ceasefire on a lot of areas and so far, that’s all held very well.”
Guns pointing at each other
As President Trump observes, Zelenskyy can’t handle pressure. “They had a lot of guns pointing at each other. You had some soldiers unfortunately surrounded by other soldiers.” Forces who get surrounded usually surrender. The ones who don’t learn the same lesson as George Custer.
“I believe we’re going to pretty soon have a full ceasefire.” Ukraine can’t hold out much longer. If Zelenskyy had signed that mineral deal there would be enough cash available for Trump to send in airstrikes and cruise missiles.
Oh well, that’s the Ukraine wants it. “We’re going to have a contract, and the contract’s being negotiated, the contract in terms of dividing up the lands, etc., etc. It’s being negotiated as we speak.” Kiev? you want it? Sure, just stop shooting.
Right now, Russia “controls nearly 20 percent of Ukraine’s land.” Zelenskyy controls a small part of Russia and those are the forces allegedly surrounded and under siege.
There’s still time for Zelenskyy to wake up and smell the thermite. He can sign over the nuclear power plants and give Trump an excuse to protect U.S. interests inside Ukraine. The T-shirt wearing world leader can’t seem to get his head around that.
“American ownership of those plants would be the best protection for that infrastructure and support for Ukrainian energy infrastructure,” national security adviser Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a joint statement after Trump’s one-hour call with Zelenskyy. Or else peace in Ukraine will be more like total surrender.
