Hit the Russia in depth by using Western missiles to facilitate a peace settlement in Ukraine and allow to Joe Biden to earn a place in history. This would be the content of the “plan for victory” that the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky will present in the next few hours in Washington to his American counterpart, and, subsequently, also to the two US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
According to sources close to the Ukrainian presidency, Zelensky will use the opportunity of the trip to the States to put pressure on Biden so that Western democracies wholeheartedly support Kiev’s demands with a view to Strengthen Ukraine by providing it with ‘specific’ modern weapons, financial assistance and security guarantees similar to those provided for NATO countries, so as to safeguard its independence.
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“Biden can strengthen Ukraine and make important decisions to strengthen it and protect its independence while he is still president. I think it is a historic mission,” said Zelensky, who hopes to gain the US president’s long-awaited approval to carry out long-range strikes into Russian territoryA possibility that, at least until now, Washington, like other Western chancellors, has always denied, in order to avoid the risk, today higher than ever, of a military escalation with Moscow.
For his part, Zelensky believes in the possibility of making Joe Biden change his mind, perhaps with the decisive support of the British Prime Minister Keir Starmerwho was said to be in favor of the possibility that Ukraine could use the Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike Russian targets. Already on the sidelines of last week’s meeting in Washington, Starmer had tried to convince Biden to give Kiev the green light, but he ran into hesitations from the American president.
White House analysts remain quite skeptical about the idea of eliminating restrictions on Kiev’s use of Western long-range weapons, especially if one considers the hypothesis, which is far from remote, that the Russians may have already moved their launch systems out of the range of Western long-range weapons. In that case, needless to say, a possible green light from Washington would not have a significant impact on the fighting, but would only contribute to exposing European democracies and Ukraine itself to useless and senseless risks. Unjustified fears according to Volodymyr Zelensky, who is now more intent than ever on burn the times and risk everything to persuade Joe Biden as soon as possible, aware that a possible return of Donald Trump to the White House next November would radically change intentional balances and future scenarios.
Salvatore Di Bartolo, September 23, 2024
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