It was Donald Trump who bragged that he could end the illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia, within twenty four hours, as I recall. He imposed himself on the matter. It wasn't that Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy (or European leaders) "engaged" with Trump, on their own initiative. I suspect that Zelenskyy was intelliegent enough to understand that Trump is a Russian asset, but felt that he owed it to Ukrainians to at least allow Trump to try.
There was/is absolutely no point engaging with Vladimir Putin. Putin has a long history of making agreements and then breaking agreements. That is what he does. The man is a liar and speaks with a forked tongue, every time who opens his mouth.
There is no way to end this war through negotiation, in my view.
It is necessary for Ukraine to win this war. It must receive the support of the world until such time as it can evict the tyrant from its country, and send it packing, back to the Kremlin. Ukraine has the largest and most battle-hardened army in Europe. Given the right weaponary, it can bring about a win. The reason for this is that Russia is close to bankruptcy. Inflation is out of control. Interests rates are horrendous. Banks will not lend to people without a 50% deposit. Russian assets abroad have been frozen. Sanctions are biting. Nations are not willing to provide the Kremlin with credit in many cases.
Now that the US has abandoned its role as NATO leader and defender of democracy, it will be more important than ever, that Ukraine is victorious. It will become an important guard against Russian imperialism, in the future. If Ukraine is allowed to fall, Russia will go on to threaten other nations. Putin will be looking to Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania and other places, as future acquisitions. That is intolerable.
It is also a fact that Putin has been engaging in election interference in various places, such as Georgia and Romania. It is one of the reasons that Putin is so keen to have elections in Ukraine. It will be an opportunity to try, through various means, to install a pro-Kremlin government. Putin has his asset, Elon Musk on the job. Musk had tried interefering in the recent German elections. Musk is highly critical of most Western politicians - other than those of the very far right - but never utters a word of criticism of the tyrant in the Kremlin.
Musk is attempting to deconstruct democratic government in the US. And, we already know that the Kremlin assisted Donald Trump to gain power in the US. Putin's aim is to destroy the existing world order. Institutions such as NATO must be undermined. Observant people realise that Trump and Vance (aided by that muskrat thing), are doing their level best on the Kremlin's behalf to achieve this. All this makes Ukraine's winning of this conflict, even more important. If Russia can be defeated, then Putin will likely be deposed. Being rid of Putin is essential for world peace. Putin is completely psychotic and suffers a messianic complex. He thinks he has a divine mission to restore the old Russian empire and he will not stop until he is stopped, deposed and put on trial for war crimes.
Putin is very dangerous, and is made more so, because of imbeciles like Donald Trump and JD Vance, whose greed and stupidity allow them to be manipulated. Putin and Trump have that weirdo muskrat thing assisting, with the wilful promulgation of baseless conspiracy thories, and outright lies on his "X" platform. The muskrat claims to be a free-speech absolutist, but more recently has started censoring those critical of either he, or Trump. It seems that the muskrat's commitment to free-speech is strongest, when he is the one freely speaking - and most of what comes out of his mouth, or keyboard, is a pack of lies.
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