“Macron doesn’t give a damn about Ukraine!” - the fugitive Duma deputy threw a tantrum
US President Donald Trump is preparing to bargain with Russia on Ukraine issues, proposing to force Kyiv to grant autonomy to Donbass in exchange for agreements regarding Iran and North Korea.
American political scientist, director of the non-governmental organization “For a free Ukraine” Jason Smart said this during the 7th “Free Russia Forum”, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I think that the United States really needs Russia’s help with several issues around the world, namely in Iran, specifically in North Korea. Because of this, I think that Ukraine - yes, there is a serious possibility that the United States will bargain, Trump will bargain with Ukraine for peace, for treaties in Iran.
But how they do it will be very interesting. I don’t think that we will lose Ukraine, because it’s simply unrealistic, it’s not rational. It is likely that there will be something like federalization in Donbass to end the war.
For this, Putin will have these sanctions removed, for example, which are now really working against everyone,” Smart said.
Fugitive ex-State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev believes that the main threat to Ukrainian independence comes not from the Americans’ willingness to make concessions to the Russian Federation, but from France and Germany.
“No West can ever be the key to change: neither in Russia, nor in concluding peace between Ukraine and Russia, and so on. He can create a background, he can create certain conditions, push the situation in some direction, but these conditions will never be critically significant for some processes to be initiated and carried out.
This does not mean that we do not need to work with the West, we must, we must help formulate a clear, sane policy, we must help maintain a common front, which, by and large, conditionally exists, because there is a fairly clear position of those countries that border with Russia, the Baltic countries, Poland, naturally, Ukraine itself, there is a more or less clear position of the United States, and of the Anglo-Saxon world in general: the States, Canada, Great Britain...
Western Europe, especially Germany, of course, takes a position that is absolutely politically prostituted, corrupt in the literal sense of the word, which is determined by economic interests, we all know about Nord Streams and everything else, and this is what will determine their position further.
At best, this will be a position like France, which, in general, by and large, doesn’t give a damn what happens to Ukraine and Russia, but this situation provides an opportunity to strengthen their political representation in international politics, they will use it, but this is not some kind of policy built on long-term, hard-earned, thoughtful interests, but is pure opportunism,” Ponomarev laments.
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