The invasion of Ukraine by Russia of February 24, 2022 – or the special military operation, as Vladimir Putin called the attack – has entered a critical moment, after more than 1,000 days of bloody fighting, thousands of dead and injured and an economic waste difficult to quantify. Donald Trump, the president of the United States, always argued that when he arrived at the White House he would end up quickly with the European war conflict, but for now all the US provisions have encountered the Russian wall. The Klemlin knows that the war is winning and that, little by little, its soldiers are attached more and more Ukrainian territories, so they are in no hurry to sign peace. And that Trump, according to all indications, would recognize the illegal annexation of Crimea of 2014 or the territories conquered in recent years by Russia. In addition, it would prevent Volodimir Zelenski from achieving his great goal: to enter NATO. Therefore, the next few weeks are key to the final outcome that is coming.
Trump is impatient.
For its part, 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.
The Russian economic miracle.
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. It is another letter that Putin knows that he can wield in his favor.
