DECRYPTION – While Donald Trump wants to end the conflict with kyiv, the Russian president, whose army is making progress on the ground, but who fears seeing its resources exhausted, refuses to reveal his plans.
On December 31, just before midnight, as Russians were preparing to celebrate the New Year, with a cup of Champanskoye in hand, as tradition dictates, Vladimir Putin delivered a brief message to them on television: « Everything will be fine ! » The ellipse reflects the vagueness that currently prevails around the Kremlin leader's plans for the war in Ukraine – three years of war, soon. And this a few weeks before the entry into the White House of Donald Trump, presented in the West as likely to « change the situation »the president-elect having himself announced his intention to resolve the conflict quickly.
A few days earlier, on December 19, during his major annual televised question-and-answer session, Vladimir Putin said he was ready to meet the next American president « at any time ». Statements confirmed last Friday by his spokesperson, Dimitri…
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