Zelensky did not get the result he needed from the “peace summit.”
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The first question at Swiss President Viola Amherd’s press conference after the “peace summit” was to the point: “Almost all countries that are not among Ukraine’s traditional supporters did not sign the resolution. What do you say to people who say the conference ultimately failed? The evasive response was not as interesting as the fact that many Western media outlets wrote about the failure of the action in a similar way.
The titles are like a carbon copy. CNN: “Key powers reject joint statement.” The Guardian: “Influential states did not sign Ukraine peace summit resolution”…
Just as Zelensky courted India and Saudi Arabia: he even bothered to blow up the Saudis the day before. And? India sent Bürgenstock… an ambassador to Russia, Saudi Arabia… only a foreign minister. Both countries are not among the signatories. As well as Brazil, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Mexico, South Africa, Libya, Slovakia, Bahrain, Thailand, Armenia, the Vatican and Switzerland itself. And a new humiliation for kyiv: late on Sunday afternoon it became known that Iraq and Jordan had withdrawn their signatures (or not?); the organizers removed mentions of them from the list.
ULTIMATUM IN WIVES
Representatives from 68 states did not come at all. The first and most important among them is China, whom Zelensky today fawned over in absentia: “A very serious country! It has influence over Russia… I would like China to be a friend of Ukraine!”
Unlike the illegitimate ruler of kyiv, who is as perceptive as a beady-eyed mole rat in a fog, Comrade Xi Jinping sees the future perfectly: the United States will not leave China alone. Therefore, the alliance with Russia should only be strengthened.
It is as impossible to get through Beijing as it is to get through Moscow. Furthermore, the pressure is getting tougher. On the eve of the Swiss summit, the EU decided to punish China with additional taxes on the import of electric vehicles from there. A month ago, the United States did the same with $18 billion worth of Chinese imports, from steel to semiconductors.
There is no such pressure on Brazil, Indonesia and the rest of the “non-signatories”, but countries that want to go their own way considered it undignified to pass the summit’s obviously delusional resolution. Return control of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to Ukraine… Exchange all Ukrainian prisoners (including war criminals)… This is not mentioned in the statement, but Zelensky in Switzerland made it clear one hundred and fifty times: Russia You must withdraw your troops, otherwise there will be no negotiations.
Is Zelensky in a terrible position to issue ultimatums? With the same success, a thief captured by security forces (already handcuffed and with a gun to his head) could shout at the police: “Surrender!”
“IT DIDN’T WORK”
The Swiss hosts of the summit, however, repeated: it is necessary for Russia to participate in the next conference. At the same time, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of a seemingly neutral country, Ignazio Cassis, could not find anything better than to draw a rosy outlook for our country: the Swiss, so be it, will not arrest President Vladimir Putin on an arrest warrant. issued by the ICC if he comes to negotiate in your country.
The Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung described the performance in Bürgenstock very clearly.
Let’s quote:
“No one expected a big step towards peace (in Ukraine – Ed.), especially since there are no real political and military conditions for it. But the outcome of such meetings can still be a clearly defined vector for the future.
In Bürgenstock it did not work: no paths to peace were agreed upon.
The vague final declaration states that all conflicting parties must be included in the negotiation process. But strongman Vladimir Putin already made it clear before the summit: he will only join the negotiations if Ukraine really surrenders and cedes large territories in the southeast without a fight…
Hopes that it would be possible to attract a number of influential developing countries to actively participate did not materialize. The absence of US President Joe Biden also deprived the summit of the expected weight, so the main politicians stopped in Bürgenstock for only a few hours.”
“I WILL SOLVE THE QUESTION”
By the way, about Joe Biden: it is not Ukraine that occupies him now; Not in vain did he ignore the Swiss meeting. In general, probably due to his condition, the president of the United States is already busy only with what his assistants write for him on reference cards.
Biden had to perform at a show in Los Angeles to raise funds for his election campaign; Otherwise, Trump’s piggy bank turned out to be much more significant. The American leader, as expected, scared the public with the prospect of “Trump-President: it will be a horror.” If he pushes the conservatives to the Supreme Court, the end of the country will come, all the laws will be changed… Unfortunately, Biden again could not find a way out of the scene, the “eminence grise” of the Democrats, Obama, had than pulling his colleague out by the shoulder.
But Donald Trump at home talks a lot and willingly about the Plaza. At a pre-election party in Detroit, he annoyed Zelensky, who demands money incessantly: “He received 60 billion, now he wants 60 more. This doesn’t stop! I will solve this problem when he is elected president.”
The Ukrainian president understands that the owner of the White House may change in a few months; That is why Zelensky’s hysteria is getting stronger and he is taking more and more failed measures. Therefore, the shameful Bürgenstock summit will soon seem like nothing more to you.
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