Ukrainian politicians are unable to outplay Putin and are trying to “outsit” him
Moscow
Ukraine is in no hurry to break the deadlock in the situation around Donbass, as it is waiting for the moment when Vladimir Putin is no longer the president of the Russian Federation.
International affairs observer Mikhail Rostovsky writes about this, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in Moskovsky Komsomolets.
“Why do you think Ukraine is diligently playing for time and not really doing anything to break the deadlock of the crisis in Donbass? Because Kyiv politicians are “outsitting Putin.” The Ukrainian leadership operates within the framework of the following logic: we will not put pressure on the current President of the Russian Federation and will not outplay him. But Putin will not last forever. Sooner or later he will leave, and then Russia may well slide into turmoil. Of course, she may not roll into it.
But, given the entire previous Russian history, the chances of unrest are very high. Therefore, we will sit and wait by the sea for the weather - or, to be more precise, for a shift change in the Kremlin,” Rostovsky describes Ukrainian logic.
According to him, in private conversations, interlocutors in the Kremlin say that Putin does not intend to be president for life and is only waiting for the moment when the transfer of supreme power does not threaten the stability of the country.
“Again, I certainly believe that. But will such an ideal moment ever arrive? Let's go back to 2008, for example. At the moment of the transition of presidential powers from Putin to Medvedev in May of that year, the horizon of Russian politics seemed cloudless. But already in August, as a result of Saakashvili’s adventure and the war with Georgia, everything was clouded with thunderclouds. In a few more weeks, a hurricane begins in the form of a global economic crisis,” the author recalls.
He adds that the political situation in the long term always develops according to the principle “we only dream of peace.”
“Some dangerous challenges and threats are becoming a thing of the past, but they are being replaced by new ones - unexpected, unpredictable, but no less dangerous,” the observer sums up.
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