The next eight weeks leading up to Donald Trump's January 20 inauguration will be both dangerous and decisive in terms of the future of the Ukraine war.
Well before he returns to the White House, Donald Trump is already having an influence on the dramatically different new world order. Ukraine is a case in point.
And so, Ukraine tried something very radical – it made the audacious military decision to break through Russian lines and take a chunk of Russia in Kursk.The reason Ukrainian targeted Kursk is so that it has at least one major bargaining chip when it is forced by Donald Trump to sit at a negotiating table.
The immediate trigger for this green light appears to be the amassing of North Korean soldiers for a counterattack in Kursk. The US is alarmed by the arrival of foreign troops and does not want this to become a precedent for forces from Iran and other enemies of NATO. While Putin has threatened the nuclear option several times – and it's difficult to read the mind of the Russian leader – he is unlikely to push ahead with a nuclear attack.Putin would know that should he go ahead with his threat, it is likely that scores of sites around Russia would be hit, including his beloved dacha in the Russian countryside.
At this stage there is no proof of who cut the cables, but Reuters reported that European governments accused Russia of escalating "hybrid attacks" on Ukraine's allies. "When Zelenskyy says we will only stop this fighting, there will only be peace once Crimea is returned, we've got news for President Zelenskyy: Crimea is gone," Lanza told the BBC.
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