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Even this concession comes, as always, a little too late. The Kremlin, which sees this as a direct participation of the United States in the conflict, is once again brandishing the nuclear threat. A threat stirred after the Ukrainian army struck the Russian border region of Bryansk with several long-range US ATACMS missiles. Putin subsequently signed a decree broadening the criteria for the use of nuclear weapons, including precisely the launch of ballistic missiles against Russia. A threat brandished so often that it seems largely blunted. But how far will Putin go if he fears losing this war?
“Time is running out, especially with the imminent arrival of Donald Trump at the White House”
Time is running out, especially with the imminent arrival of Donald Trump at the White House: if we are to believe the future American vice-president JD Vance, the settlement of the conflict “probably resembles the current dividing line between Russia and Ukraine which would become a sort of demilitarized zone. Clearly, peace would consist of Ukraine giving up 20% of its territory, in Donbass and Crimea. Hence Volodymyr Zelensky's call to Europe yesterday in the European Parliament to continue its commitments. According to the Ukrainian president, Russia will not have “real motivation to enter into negotiations without burning its munitions depots […]without destruction of its air bases, without loss of its missile and drone production capabilities and without its assets being confiscated.”
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A situation which does not prevent the Ukrainian president from being realistic, aware of the difficulties he encounters on the ground and therefore from considering the loss of the occupied territories, as the future American vice-president wishes. And this, without any compensation for the country.
In this hypothesis “perhaps Ukraine will have to live longer than a certain person in Moscow to achieve all its goals and restore the integrity of its state,” said the Ukrainian president. Zelensky's realism therefore goes so far as to envisage that the fight for Ukraine lasts beyond the life of the Kremlin autocrat.
