Trump the Peacemaker

The war is unlikely to end for Russians and Ukrainians anytime soon despite Trump’s much publicised peace diplomacy. Trump the peacemaker is more like Hitler the “Chancellor of Peace”. That’s what Hitler was called before he started the Second World War. The ruling elites in Europe in those days thought Hitler was better than communists! While briefing the press about his peace plan in Ukraine Trump didn’t rule out the possibility of Third World War which could not be anything but nuclear. And this same peacemaker loudly proclaims that he intends to take possession by ‘‘any means necessary” of Canada, Panama, Greenland, Gaza and who knows where else in the world.

The US-brokered ceasefire deal now hangs in the balance though Ukraine is not averse to the idea of a 30-day pause in fighting. But Russians are not interested as they see in this temporary arrangement an American ploy to allow Ukraine sufficient time to regroup as they are losing in the battlefield. Without rejecting the deal outright Moscow has given qualified support, giving a number of crucial conditions. For all practical purposes the US truce proposal is “nothing but a temporary respite for the Ukrainian military, nothing else”. Kyiv and EU remain wary of any peace deal that doesn’t come with US security guarantees for Ukraine, something both Putin and Trump have pushed back against. In truth Europeans who have recently formed a “Coalition of the Willing” to reduce their dependence on America and back Zelensky more fanatically than ever before are too eager to continue the war. They are least bothered about what is happening to Ukraine’s present and future.

Both Moscow and Washington now cast the three-year-old conflict as a deadly proxy war with the deadly potential to trigger World War three. Unless Ukraine drops its ambitions to join NATO and allow Russia to control the entirety of the four regions it has claimed as its own, and the size of the Ukrainian army to be limited the talk of cease-fire is meaningless. Moscow sticks to the point that any agreement must address the root causes of the crisis, a caveat that suggests any cease-fire will not be that easy as Ukraine declines to concede any parcel of its territory that Russia is claiming for so long. Then there are other issues which are no less important for Moscow before accepting cease-fire after so much bloodbath and destruction. The Kremlin wants and quite justifiably Western sanctions eased and a presidential election to be held in Ukraine, which Kyiv says is premature while martial law is in force. The peacemaker, however, cannot deny the just demands of Russia and finds it difficult to hammer out an agreed deal for cease-fire. For one thing Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff had to wait 8 hours to meet Putin in Moscow. In other words Russia is not in a hurry.

This conflict, in essence, is the culmination of Anglo-American policy to destroy the earstwhile Soviet Union. Soviet Russia is history but its successor Russian Federation is there and they now want to subjugate Russia and loot its natural resources. Anarchists in Europe view this war as an inter-imperialist rivalry and they have no role to play other than demanding peace, and that too somewhat philosophically. Rivalry is there but it is also the existential threat to Russia .And neo-Nazi Zelensky who is living on borrowed time, is primarily responsible for creating such a horrible situation. They have encircled Russia and would like to weaken it financially and militarily beyond repair. But all their plans have so far failed as the multi-polarity is a hard reality now. The left unlike the European anarchists must mobilise against the notorious “Coalition of the Willing” which is a new united front to crush Russia.

17-03-2025

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