Bowen: Zelansky forced to face hard new reality after Trump-Putin phone call

America is subject to new management. Ukraine’s President Volodimier Zelancesi is joining the growing list of American colleagues, finding that according to Donald Trump, the world is a cold, more uncertain and potentially more dangerous place for him.

It would have been a bad bad for Zelanski to listen to Trump’s sudden announcement that he welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin back to international diplomacy with a 90-minute phone call, followed by a meeting, maybe Saudi Arabia In.

After Putin, the White House dialed Zelansky’s number. Talking to reporters in Ukraine after morning, Zelansky admitted the fact that Putin received the first call, “although to be honest, it’s not very pleasant”.

Zelanceci’s more stinging Trump, who shaken him after talking to Putin, as a junior assistant for any peace talks, he felt the best. There should be a possibility of Trump and Putin, one of the many nightmares of Zelansky and should try to settle Ukraine’s future without anyone else.

He told reporters that Ukraine would “be able to accept any agreement” without its participation.

This was important, he said, “Everything does not go according to Putin’s plan, in which he wants to do everything to make his interaction bilateral”.

President Zelancesi is going to the Munich Security Conference starting on Friday, where he will try to rally Ukraine’s colleagues. He faced a tough meeting with JD Vance, Vice President of Trump, which was one of the most rigorous critics of Biden’s aid in Ukraine.

Zelansky’s argument will be heard from Americans that Ukraine is losing and what happens next needs to be real. He will argue that Ukraine can win – with the right banking.

The European Union is also worried. After meeting and praising Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustom Umerov, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Kaza Kalas posted that there should be a central role in any conversation in Europe. “Our priority should now strengthen Ukraine and provide a strong safety guarantee,” Kalas said.

Zelansky knows that while his European allies look much more stable than Americans, America remains the world’s strongest military power. He told The Guardian last week that “security guarantee without America is not a real safety guarantee”.

Collectively, European colleagues have given Ukraine more money than in the US. But Americans have weapons and air defense systems – such as the Patriot missile batteries that protect the kiv – which Europeans cannot only provide.

Putin will be happy that he is riding a much easier than Biden. The former US President called Putin a “pure thug”, a “cruel dictator” and a “deadly dictator” and cut the contact after Russia’s full -scale invasion in Ukraine in February 2022.

Just to run the house that everything changed, Trump yesterday followed his positive assessment of his point with an excited morning post on his stage, truth social, “Great talks with Russia and Ukraine” yesterday ” Definning. Now “that terrible, very bloody war was good likely to end !!!”

Putin is not back in conversation with the world’s most powerful country. Along with Trump, he can now see himself as the arbiter of Andgem in the war, when he broke international law with Ukraine’s all-out attacks about three years ago.

At the White House, Trump suggested that a large number of dead and injured in the Russian army were dead and injured, giving any validity to the demand for Russia to capture and anxize Putin.

“He took a lot of land and fought for that land,” said Trump. For Ukraine, “some of it will return”.

His defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s comment at NATO meeting in Brussels was more direct. He wanted Ukraine to be “sovereign and prosperous”. But “we should start to identify that there is an unrealistic purpose by returning to the pre -2014 borders of Ukraine”.

“Chasing the goal of this confusion will only make the war longer and will be more sad.”

Trump is still at an easy end that can become an impossible tough diplomatic challenge. Stating that he has the key to ending the Russo-Ukraine war, one thing. Doing this is something else.

Before any talks with Russia, their announcement began that Ukraine would not be included in NATO nor would it be widely criticized by all its occupied lands, who has been widely criticized by a person who has a poor start by a person by a person. As criticized which claims to be the world’s best dealmaker.

Veteran Swedish diplomat and politician Carl Build made an ironic rebellion on X.

“This is definitely an innovative approach to a conversation to give huge concessions before it started. Chamberlane also did not go to him in 1938. This Munich became very bad in some way.”

Bieldt posted a picture of the then Prime Minister of Britain Neville Chamberlane on its return from Munich in 1938, waving the notorious and useless agreement with Adolf Hitler – priced at Capitulation and Break -up of Czechoslovakia and a boom A Second World War on the slide from the slide.

After the full -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Vladimir Putin was widely depicted as a new threat to European peace in the West. Trump’s attitude towards him is very different.

He will have to try to bridge the gap between the positions of Putin and Zelansky, which is polar protests.

Zelansky’s declared objective is to re -acquire the lost area of ​​Ukraine, which ranks fifth of its total land mass. He also wants Ukraine to become a full member of NATO.

Putin insisted that any peace deal would need Ukraine to catch Russia, as well as not occupied the areas including the city of Zaporizhia, including a population of more than half a million. Ukraine will also be neutral, demonstrated and will never be included in NATO.

The demand for Ukraine will not be acceptable to Moscow, and Trump indicates that he does not like them.

But for an ultimatum the amount of Russia, not a serious peace proposal. Trump, once a developer, prefers deals that include tangible real estate. But Putin wants more than the land. He wants Ukraine to return to the relationship that was during the days with Kremlin when it was part of the Soviet Union. For this to happen, Ukraine must lose its freedom and sovereignty.

Biden did not offer to lose Ukraine, as he threatened Putin to use nuclear weapons if NATO intervened seriously. Trump should be aware of the nuclear threat, but he believes that returning Ukraine indefinitely is a bad deal for America, and he can do better.

For Europeans, he may force them to face gross inequality between Ukraine and their military promises to their military capabilities. Only Poland and Baltic states are supporting their public statements about danger from Russia only with qualitatively increased defense spending.

With Russia ahead with Eastern Ukraine moving forward on the battlefields, it is the most difficult moment that Zelanceci would have faced since the dark and desperate of the first months of the war, when Ukraine fought Russia’s attack on Kiev Was.

It is also a moment of decision for his western colleagues. They face difficult options that cannot be closed long.