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Shkruar nga Roberto Fabbri
The tycoon's turn for economic interests, but the West is something else.
What is Donald Trump's real objective regarding the war in Ukraine?
The US administration's constant barrage of contradictory statements confuses observers and newspaper readers: one day, Trump acts like a friend of the Moscow dictator, rolling out the red carpet for him in Alaska; two months later, he hits him with sanctions designed to cripple his strategic oil exports and gets away with not ruling out supplying Ukraine with deadly Tomahawk missiles, with permission to launch them in Russia; then he reconsiders and comes up with a "peace plan" that is a near-perfect copy of the Kremlin's most extreme demands, ordering Zelensky to accept it within 6 days or else be trapped in the freezing winter facing the Russian invader.
Let's not even talk about Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who, privately with Republican senators who are less inclined to get close to a war criminal and enemy of the West, admits that Steve Witkoff's plan is nothing more than Putin's wish list, then publicly retracts it and claims that the plan was drafted "taking into account discussions with the Ukrainians."
No one will ever know, given that the famous 28 points constitute a capitulation manual for Kiev. But you have to understand the young Rubio: he is thinking about his political career. In his time, to avoid the miserable fate of Nikki Haley, who dared to challenge Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, he pledged allegiance to the Maga Chief, and now he is avoiding the occasional cautious signal of independence, which may (who knows?) be useful in an unpredictable post-Trump future.
Let's say it once and for all. This apparent change of attitude is just smoke and mirrors. Trump's only compass is money and personal interests, and Zelensky unfortunately has the right to live in anxiety. The White House tycoon, much less those he likes so much that he has chosen as associates, from Vice President Vance to Pentagon chief Hegseth to the so-called mediator Witkoff, are not at all interested in the common values of the liberal-democratic West. For them, the aggressor and the attacked are not even equal: they willingly support Putin, and in the coming days, Ukraine can only hope for some changes to the Witkoff plan or, alternatively, for active European solidarity.
The reasons for this choice have long been known. Trump has no interest in his alliance with the Europeans, whom he has always seen as geopolitical and commercial rivals. He claims otherwise when it suits him, but he is perfectly happy to divide the world into spheres of influence with Putin and Xi Jinping.
He is also very interested in resuming business with a Russia led by the man Biden (rightly) called a murderer, but whom he considers an ideal partner, being as cynical and narcissistic as he is: and he knows very well that there will be a significant share of the profits for him, his family and his associates.
Trump is finally obsessed with the fact that he will go down in history as the Great Peacemaker, which in fact he is not, leaving the hated Barack Obama in the shade.
It doesn't matter if his "peace in Ukraine" would be a sham that would open the door to the worst instability in Europe: as long as we can say that the shooting stopped for a while thanks to him. Then it will be someone else's business. Ours, to be precise. /Adapted from Il Giornale/
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