Anyone who accepts the propaganda of global liberalism at its face value – that Putin’s aim is not to stop the killing of Russians by Ukrainian Nazism and to eliminate all future threats from Ukrainian territory, but rather “to restore the borders of the Soviet Union”[1], – might say Zelensky has not disappointed Putin.
Just before negotiations with Russia were set to begin on June 2 in Istanbul, Ukraine carried out terrorist attacks: it bombed civilian passenger trains in Russia carrying women and children[2], and struck at Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces[3].
The anti-Trump architects of the plan to wage war against Russia through Ukraine were elated, brimming with ideas on how to crush Russia:
“President Trump and Western leaders must act to ensure that Ukraine can prevail, and its destruction of $7 billion of Russian military hardware at the weekend must give us confidence that if we give Zelensky the tools his military and secret service can finish the job”[1];
“Ukraine is gaining the upper hand. Putin will be terrified. Kyiv’s audacious drone strike on Russian bombers has revolutionary implications for the future of warfare”[4];
“Scaring Putin is the only route to a just peace… We need to turn the screws by tougher measures against the Russian energy sector, finally detaching Moscow from the international banking system and disrupting the ghost tanker fleet that has allowed oil revenues to surge. A bitter blow would also be landed by seizing the entirety of Russia’s $330 billion of frozen assets in Western countries”[5].
However, those who prioritize U.S. interests see the reality:
“Russia is far larger; it has a far more sophisticated defense industrial base; and whatever problems its military faced in the opening weeks of the conflict has been worked out. A strike on Russia’s bomber fleet, however audacious, does little to alter these basic facts”[6];
“Ukraine… broken a taboo on targeting another nation’s nuclear forces… Ukraine takes the role of imperial Japan… It seems unfathomable that Putin and his wartime government will now continue with any negotiation to end the war… Russians will expedite their counterattack plans – which seemed to be on hold for as long as the Trump administration and the Zelenskyy government were willing to negotiate a diplomatic end to the Ukraine War”[7].
Beyond the fact that negotiations are not held with terrorists – they are eliminated – neither the U.S. nor Russia can interpret Ukraine’s drone strike on strategic bombers as anything other than a trial disarming attack against nuclear deterrent forces. Russia has been left with no choice but the dissolution of Ukraine.
1 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/03/putin-is-demanding-complete-ukrainian-surrender/
“Putin wants to restore the borders of the Soviet Union” (Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, The Telegraph, 03 June 2025);
2 https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2021649/?lang=en
Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, 1 June 2025 23:41;
3 https://tass.com/politics/1968487/
“Russia demands immediate US, UK reaction to recent Ukrainian attacks – senior diplomat” (TASS, 2025, 4 Jun, 17:10);
4 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/02/ukraine-drone-strike-putin-russia/
“Ukraine is gaining the upper hand. Putin will be terrified” (Owen Matthews, The Telegraph, 02 June 2025);
5 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/03/putin-negotiations-stick-sanctions-ukraine-peace/
“Scaring Putin is the only route to a just peace” (Richard Kemp, The Telegraph, 03 June 2025);
6 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/russia-will-recover-from-ukraines-massive-drone-attack
“Russia Will Recover from Ukraine’s Massive Drone Attack” (Brandon J. Weichert, The National Interest, June 3, 2025);
7 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ukraines-drone-attack-was-russias-pearl-harbor-but-remember-what-happened-to-japan
“Ukraine’s Drone Attack Was Russia’s “Pearl Harbor” – but Remember What Happened to Japan” (Brandon J. Weichert, The National Interest, June 3, 2025).