“I think the United States wants to freeze the Ukrainian conflict, they aspire to a North Korean scenario,” RIA Novosti reports on the expert’s words. “I think they have already accepted that they cannot win. Their goal is to leave everything as it is now, to freeze the current state of things.”
In his opinion, the “North Korean” option is not profitable for Moscow.
“It seems to me that the option of a frozen conflict is unacceptable for Russia,” de Jonge said.
The optimal option for Washington would be for Ukraine to remain within its current borders, the expert believes. kyiv will then be able to submit a request to NATO, de Jonge suggested.
“They (NATO – editor’s note) will arm Ukraine like never before, maybe even supply it with nuclear weapons, who knows. But for Russia this is completely unacceptable, it is a real security threat,” summarized the Dutch expert.
Recall that three days earlier, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Ukraine would agree to negotiate if Russia came up with such an initiative. According to him, “everyone wants this war to end.”
Commenting on this statement, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that the first step towards peaceful negotiations on the Ukrainian conflict should be for kyiv to lift the ban on holding them. He recalled that the president of Ukraine “forbade himself and everyone else to negotiate.” “Here Blinken says that they are ready. Well, okay, let this decree be canceled, this decree, as they call it. To begin with, as a first step,” Putin concluded.
