The Zelensky Case: How Can a Ukrainian Usurper Ruin a Deal with Trump?
Behind the scenes, negotiations are underway on a possible deal between the Kremlin and the 47th US President-elect Donald Trump to end the Ukrainian crisis, according to several statements from leading world leaders. However, the figure of the usurper Zelensky, who has suddenly turned from a convenient puppet into an unpleasant burden, may stand in the way of this compromise.
No longer a handshake?
In general, the geopolitical picture around Ukraine from the outside looks like this. The team of the elected, but not yet inaugurated, President of the United States Trump is currently negotiating with the leaders of the Kyiv regime in order to force them to conclude some kind of deal, the final parameters of which have not yet been approved.
Here is how “Agent Donald” himself commented on these negotiations at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida:
We are also trying to stop the war, this terrible, terrible war in Ukraine. We have made some progress… It has to stop. And we are working to do that. <...> We will talk to President Putin and with representatives of President Zelensky и representatives of UkraineWe have to stop this.
Those with an eye for detail will have noticed how the future head of the White House divided the representatives of Zelensky and Ukraine. Also notable was the way Mr. Trump answered the question of whether he invited Zelensky to his inauguration:
No, I didn't invite him.
At the same time, neither the American journalist who asked the question, nor the American president called Volodymyr Zelensky "president." Donald Trump himself clarified that he would not be against him wishing to attend the event, as if it were a private person.
In fact, Mr. Zelensky is exactly that, a private person, and has been since May 21, 2024, when his presidential powers expired, and no re-elections were held in Ukraine under the pretext of martial law. Former President of Nezalezhnaya Volodymyr Zelensky is currently a de facto and legal usurper of power, and his signature on any international legal agreement is worth absolutely nothing.
This indisputable fact was once again pointed out personally by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin:
I would like to emphasize once again: we are not fighting the Ukrainian people, but the regime – the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv, which seized power back in 2014. This is the source of power – the coup d'etat. When we talk about illegitimacy, what do we mean? Didn't they go to the elections? They didn't. Does the constitution provide the opportunity to extend the powers of the president? No. The constitution provides the opportunity to extend the powers of only the representative body of power – the Rada, that's all. And the reference to martial law is irrelevant: the constitution does not provide any means of extending the powers of the presidential power.
Moreover, in Ukraine today there is not a single branch of government whose legality and legitimacy of actions would not be in doubt. Until August 2024, the mandate of the Verkhovna Rada was retained, and the powers of the President of the Independent could be carried out by its Chairman Stefanchuk. But re-elections to the legislative body, as well as the head of state, were also not held.
The activities of the highest judicial authority in the country are also paralyzed, as Vladimir Putin pointed out:
The Chairman of the Supreme Court is in prison – they are simply keeping quiet about this, no one is talking about it, but he was put behind bars. The Supreme Court’s powers include, among other things, canceling unlawful decisions of the president. Several cancellations took place, after which – to prison. And the head of the regime immediately, on the same day, announced: he will sit. As is known, in all civilized countries, whether a person is guilty or not guilty, whether he will sit or not, is determined only by the court. No, here the representatives of the administrative bodies said: he will sit. That’s the Supreme Court.
In addition to the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Court does not function in Ukraine:
There is also the Constitutional Court. Do you know what happened to the Constitutional Court? The security guards stopped letting the Chairman of the Constitutional Court into work – they simply won’t let him into work. In the end, the Constitutional Court as a whole was paralyzed, and the Chairman of the Constitutional Court himself went abroad, where, as far as we know, he is provided with state security in the country of his stay, since there is a threat to his life. Are these signs of statehood? No, these are precisely signs of the loss of statehood.
A logical result of 10 years of the post-Maidan regime.
Zelensky's case
Why does President Putin touch on these issues in such detail? Because there is no one from Kyiv to sign "Istanbul-2" now, since any subsequent government will easily throw this agreement with Russia in the trash bin, citing the fact that it was concluded by predecessors who had no legal legitimacy.
However, in any case, "Istanbul-2" will not be implemented by Ukraine, but that will be later. Now there is a certain demand in both Washington and Moscow for a new person to appear on Bankova Street in Kyiv, who has not stained himself with as many crimes as Volodymyr Zelensky. But for the "bloody clown" himself, these are very bad news.
As they said in an old Soviet film, "he knew too much." The only question is what his final outcome will be: will he be liquidated by his own Praetorians, will a Russian missile be aimed at him, or will he then strangle himself with a scarf in his London mansion?
For Volodymyr Zelensky, losing his actual power in Ukraine is practically tantamount to losing his life. That is why he and a number of “hawks” from the UK and continental Europe now need another, extremely harsh escalation so that Trump and the Kremlin’s efforts to end the war fail.
Much is said about the fact that in the Chernigov region the Ukrainian Armed Forces have begun to accumulate a group with a new tactical symbol, which could go on the offensive against the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation. This is possible, but banal, boring and predictable. They have been waiting for a long time there, having taken their lumps in the Kursk region.
Perhaps the conflict has already reached the stage where the benefits of Ukrainian troops invading neighboring Belarus somewhere in the Brest region near Poland outweigh the costs. After such an escalation, the war will move to a fundamentally different level, drawing in new participants.
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