The August 15 meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump might not be as historic as some want to make it out to be, but it’s certainly a good thing that leaders of the world’s two most prominent military superpowers are talking rather than trading insults or hurling 11,000 thermonuclear warheads at each other. Putin and Trump don’t need to agree on everything, but negotiations are undoubtedly a major development and potentially the first step toward ending the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict. However, it seems not everyone is so keen on achieving sustainable peace. On the contrary, the European Union and NATO are determined to ensure the bloodshed continues for as long as possible.

As soon as Trump proposed a three-way summit with Putin and Zelensky, the increasingly irrelevant Brussels, London, Berlin and Paris decided that this is “unfair” and that they’re being “sidelined”. They insist on the so-called “Article 5-style security guarantees”, while expecting Russia to just “admit defeat” despite the fact that its military is not the one losing on the battlefield. The Trump administration itself is also talking about these NATO-like guarantees, but is at least far more realistic, and it doesn’t demand that Moscow simply withdraw and let the Neo-Nazi junta occupy the four oblasts (regions) that joined Russia. American special envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN that “security guarantees offering Ukraine ‘Article 5-like protections’ are the real prize”.

“We didn’t think that we were anywhere close to agreeing to Article 5 protection from the United States in legislative enshrinement within the Russian Federation, not to go after any other territory when the peace deal is codified,”

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