But Ukraine’s president fears that some of his country’s Western backers are losing faith

Mr Zelensky, a former television actor with an acute sense of his audience, has detected a change of mood among some of his partners. “I have this intuition, reading, hearing and seeing their eyes [when they say] ‘we’ll be always with you,’” he says, speaking in English (a language in which he is increasingly fluent). “But I see that he or she is not here, not with us.”

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  • SunriseParabellum [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    28·
    1 year ago

    He’s probably right. All the pro-Russia stuff from the MAGA crowd is mostly trolling Libs, the GOP at the end of the day has the same interest in preserving US hegemony, if they retook the government tomorrow Tucker Carlson would pretty quickly pull some reason to 180 his stance on the war and come out totally pro-NATO, and most of his fans would go along. Trump was an inconsistent baffoon in his personal conduct but a more sober assessment of foreign policy during his presidency shows it wasn’t all that different than Obama or Bush. Obama actually refused to send lethal aid to Ukraine, yet Trump approved it.

    Even a lot of the lanyard dorks over at r/NeoLib agree with me on this

      • SunriseParabellum [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        Obviously. I just think they’re also not nearly as pro-Russia as the Libs think they are. If they were still in power, I doubt things would be much different now than they are.

      • SimulatedLiberalism [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        The problem with this logic is that you cannot fight China without settling the business with Europe/Russia first.

        The 2009 financial crisis had weakened the US financial sector and allowed the EU to develop as a rival currency bloc (thanks to cheap Russian energy supply), whose alignment with Russia and China could pose a direct threat to US hegemony on the world.

        This is why the post-2009 strategy has been to sever Europe-Russia ties, first with the Maidan coup (just after Nord Stream 1 was completed) and then the current war in Ukraine (just after Nord Stream 2 was completed).

        Trump was also part of the strategy, make no mistake, although he preferred the “art of the deal” bullshit rather than Biden’s bomb Ukraine and Nord Stream strategy to make the Europeans yield.