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From "defending values" to political bargaining; the war in Ukraine is ending not with justice, but with strategic fatigue and geopolitical interests...
The announced meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump is neither classical diplomacy nor peace in its historical sense. It is political commerce, stripped of ideals and dressed in the brutal cynicism of a world where wars do not end when the weapons stop, but when the calculus of interests changes.
Ukraine is entering the fourth year of the war not as a sovereign subject negotiating from moral force, but as an exhausted party being asked to "realize" itself in the face of American realpolitik, where the word "victory" has long been replaced by the term "loss management."
Trump is not welcoming Zelensky as an ally, but as an inherited problem. An expensive, protracted, and politically inconvenient conflict for an America that is closing in on itself and returning to its isolationist instincts. The message is simple and brutal: either accept a bad peace now, or face an even worse war without any support tomorrow. The security guarantees that are mentioned are vague formulas, toothless political documents that do not stop the Russian tank or the missile that falls on Kiev. NATO remains taboo, because no one in the West wants to die for Donbass, no matter how heroic it sounds in speeches.
In this scheme, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has no reason to rush. The Kremlin knows that time is working on its side. With each passing day, Ukraine consumes resources, people, and political patience in the West. Every “peace plan” that circulates on American tables is essentially a legalization of a fait accompli: lost territories called “compromises,” invasions rebranded as “realities on the ground,” and a damaged state invited to sign its own act of amputation for the sake of regional stability.
Zelensky finds himself in the worst possible position: a hero for the cameras, but a negotiator without cards. The referendum that is mentioned as an option is not an expression of democracy, but a mechanism for spreading blame. An elegant way to shift responsibility for an agreement that no one dares to openly defend to the people. History will be cynical here too: it will call a “sovereign decision” what is in fact geopolitical pressure disguised as an election.
This is not the end of the war in Ukraine, but the beginning of a new phase where the war continues without illusions. Without speeches about values, without flags on social profiles and without empty promises about international order. It is the moment when the West accepts, without saying it bluntly, that Ukraine was a front, not a destination; a tool of pressure, not a long-term project. And when Trump appears in front of the cameras talking about "peace", what will have really happened is something else: the normalization of the fact that in the 21st century, borders are still being changed by force, it is enough that the bill becomes too expensive to refuse. / Pamphlet
Mesa duket: vija e frontit do ngrijë aty ku e gjen dakortësia në bisedimet e fundit. Garant për vijën e frontit do jenë SHBA. Do kryen zgjedhjet presidenciale në Ukrahinë dhe referenduni me pyetjen: A jeni për vazhdimin e luftës deri në çlirimin e gjithë teritoreve të pushtuara, apo për paqe ku për Rusinë Donbasi është vijë e kuqe? Konkluzioni: Askush nuk duhet të krruhet me superfuqitë, në zonat e tyre të influencës.