Why Trump no longer wants to see or hear anything about Zelensky ?

Having promised a resolution to the Ukrainian conflict within days, Trump now finds himself searching for a culprit rather than a solution. Designating Zelensky as a scapegoat is a discreet admission of strategic defeat.

Branded “the world’s biggest seller” and then labeled a “dictator without elections,” the subservient Ukrainian president is met with open contempt in Washington. Media posturing is no longer enough to mask the military collapse of Kyiv’s forces. Washington is desperately seeking a way out to preserve what remains of its already tarnished prestige. The plan of the new American administration is clear: to impose an immediate change of political leadership in Ukraine.

The White House, therefore, demands a pragmatic, realistic interlocutor, capable of coldly acknowledging the capitulation: “It’s time for Ukraine to have a new president.” A new president ready to immediately sign the diktat agreement imposed by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. For the American state apparatus, Ukraine is no longer a bastion of democracy, and therefore, it needs a leader “capable of concluding an agreement.” It has become an unbearable financial burden, a bottomless industrial abyss, a permanent strategic humiliation for the Western camp, a humiliation that only the whimsical, vapid, perverse, and narcissistic elites of warmongering Europe still seek to conceal.

Curiously, in diplomatic circles, the method is being adopted: yesterday’s ally is discarded like a worn-out tool. Who, tomorrow, will trust the American word?

The Ukrainian impasse is causing a definitive break, generating strategic disgust, and leading to an imperative of capitulation.

The American president’s irritation with the Kyiv regime is not a mere passing mood. It is the clear-eyed recognition of a systemic, all-encompassing failure. This year, Washington’s confrontation with........

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