Giada Oricchio January 20, 2023
A few hours after the NATO summit in Ramstein, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again urged the latest generation of tanks to curb Russian aggression, while Vladimir Putin thundered: “It is an illusion of the West that Kyiv is winning”.
The director of the magazine “Domino”, Dario Fabbri, in connection with the program “Omnibus” on Friday January 20 offered his interpretation of today’s meeting between the allies: it will be a “whatever it takes” in military terms and financial terms to help Ukraine win, or will it be the acceptance of a long war of attrition? “In the last few weeks, the dialogue between Russia and the United States has become completely frayed – explained Fabbri –. Shortly before Christmas, the Americans were sure that they would come to an agreement with the Russians and then explain it to the Ukrainians. But the Kremlin has not left and does not intend to leave the annexed territories, except for Crimea.” Talks have collapsed and Russia is not speaking directly to the government in Kyiv because it treats Ukraine as a “province of the old empire.” considered.
The geopolitical analyst then revealed why the Biden administration’s tone has changed compared to a few months ago: “If before Christmas they advised the Ukrainians not to attack Russian territory or emphasized that they should take certain offensives like the one on the Kerch Bridge, in these hours the Americans have once again reiterated that Crimea is Ukrainian and that sooner or later it must return to Kyiv”.
The lack of any hint of a truce, or at least a “freeze” of the war, has prompted the United States to press again on European allies, particularly Germany, which makes the Leopard 2 tanks that Kyiv covets. “They are the most effective on the market, but at the moment the Germans don’t want anything to do with them – noted Fabbri –. In fact, Scholz took an unprecedented step forward in Davos by saying, “We’ll send them if the Americans send theirs.” This is the biggest knot at the moment. Waiting for spring, when Putin will give the order to rally a million men at the border for a new major offensive in Ukraine.