The invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022 enters a critical moment, after more than a thousand days of bloody fighting, thousands of dead and injured and a high difficult economic cost. Donald Trump, the president of the United States, said that when he arrived at the White House he would end up quickly with this conflict, but the US provisions have encountered the Russian wall. The Kremlin knows that the war is winning and annexes Ukrainian territories, so he is in no hurry to sign peace. The next weeks are key to the final outcome that is coming. Trump seems to have already taken the economic slice of the crisis and has closed a pact for kyiv to deliver its rare earth to the United States, as compensation for the enormous military effort of Washington.
However, Putin’s refusal to close an armistice covered by Trump is beginning to impatient the unpredictable American president, which threatens new and harder sanctions if he follows the war. All this, in addition, leads us to a conclusion: the very hard international sanctions against Russia, championed by the European Union and the United States, have not been enough so far to bend to the supposedly battered Russian economy. Another letter that Putin knows that he can wield in his favor.
