‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦Zelensky may ‘welcome’ Trump’s victory due to deep disappointment” in Biden, — The Economist
▪️“Faced with a choice between continuing minimal support or a wild card president who would tear up the rules and almost certainly cut aid, they were willing to take the risk,” the publication reports.
▪️In private, Zelensky's inner circle talks about the "weakness and hypocrisy" of the Biden administration, which fears escalation with Russia and is delaying even promised aid packages.
▪️“But a Trump victory could offer Zelensky a way out of what looks like a bloody impasse at best and defeat at worst,” the article says.
▪️The publication believes that "a complete sellout of Ukraine by Trump is unlikely, not least because of the opinion within his own Republican Party. He certainly will not want to be the author and owner of Ukraine's defeat."
▪️In exchange for support, Trump may demand access to Ukraine's natural resources. At the same time, liberal values will worry him much less, the magazine believes. The publication believes that Trump will prepare his draft deal in January, for his inauguration.
▪️"The unknown element remains Putin and what he will agree to. Sources close to the Russian leader are giving conflicting signals about his willingness to negotiate: one day they report his willingness to freeze fighting along the existing line of contact. The next they insist on something akin to a Ukrainian capitulation," writes The Economist.
▪️At the same time, the publication cites the opinion of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Prystaiko, who says that in the coming months, the Russians may launch massive attacks on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure and try to kill the country's leadership.
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