{"id":990781,"date":"2025-05-28T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frishberg.com\/?p=990781"},"modified":"2025-06-10T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:51:56","slug":"putin-aims-to-destroy-ukraine-and-has-zero-interest-in-a-compromise-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frishberg.com\/uk\/putin-aims-to-destroy-ukraine-and-has-zero-interest-in-a-compromise-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin aims to destroy Ukraine and has zero interest in a compromise peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Donald Trump came away from Monday\u2019s phone call with Vladimir Putin&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/president-trump-confident-putin-wants-peace-ukraine-thinks-hes-had-enough-war\">expressing confidence<\/a>&nbsp;that the Russian leader wants peace, but few others appear to share this optimism. Many senior Western figures were reportedly unimpressed by Putin\u2019s vague references to a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ce824m5849po\">memorandum on a possible peace agreement<\/a>\u201d and believe he is still engaging in stalling tactics. \u201cPutin is clearly playing for time. Unfortunately we have to say Putin is not really interested in peace,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/05\/20\/russia-is-playing-for-time-in-ukraine-peace-negotiations-germany-says\">commented<\/a>&nbsp;German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s latest call to Putin also prompted fresh questions over the US leader\u2019s handling of the faltering peace process. Britain\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Economist<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2025\/05\/19\/donald-trumps-strange-reluctance-to-get-tough-with-putin\">pondered<\/a>&nbsp;Trump\u2019s \u201cstrange reluctance to get tough with Putin,\u201d while&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em>&nbsp;columnist Max Boot led a chorus of voices accusing the Kremlin strongman of manipulating his American counterpart. \u201cWhile Trump\u2019s lack of success in peacemaking might not doom Ukraine, it certainly dispels the president\u2019s pretensions to being a world-class deal maker,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/05\/20\/trump-putin-call-ukraine-europe\/\">argued<\/a>&nbsp;Boot. \u201cPutin is playing him for a fool, and Trump doesn\u2019t even seem to realize it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mood was very different in Moscow, with the Kremlin-controlled media trumpeting the call as a significant success for Russian diplomacy. In his daily&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCSteveR\/status\/1925100807571309004\">press review<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>BBC<\/em>&nbsp;correspondent Steve Rosenberg reported that many of Russia\u2019s leading news outlets were \u201ccrowing\u201d over the contents of the Trump-Putin conversation. \u201cIt looks like Russia has won the latest round of global poker,\u201d commented one newspaper. \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s stance couldn\u2019t be more advantageous to Moscow,\u201d observed another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is no surprise to see mounting unease in Western capitals over the US push to end the Russia-Ukraine War. Since Trump first initiated peace talks in February, Ukraine has agreed to an unconditional ceasefire and signaled its readiness to make major territorial concessions. In contrast, Russia has consistently rejected calls for a ceasefire while proposing new conditions of its own and creating various obstacles to any meaningful progress. At one point, Putin even claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lacked the legitimacy to sign off on a peace deal and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/crlxl37wnnyo\">suggested<\/a>&nbsp;placing Ukraine under United Nations administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent diplomatic developments have further underlined Russia\u2019s reluctance to end the war. When the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and Poland delivered a ceasefire ultimatum to Putin in early May, the Russian ruler&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/10\/leaders-britain-france-germany-poland-arrive-kyiv-ukraine\">responded<\/a>&nbsp;by calling for the first bilateral talks with Ukraine since spring 2022. However, Putin then chose not to attend the bilateral meeting in Istanbul that he himself had proposed, preferring instead to send a low-level delegation. This was widely interpreted as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/putin-delegation-ukraine-peace-talks-turkey-slap-face-estonia-2025\">slap in the face<\/a>\u201d for Ukraine and the collective West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin\u2019s representatives during last week\u2019s negotiations in Istanbul sought to emphasize Moscow\u2019s unwillingness to compromise, calling on Kyiv to officially cede four entire provinces to Russia including a number of major Ukrainian cities that the Kremlin has so far been unable to seize militarily. If Ukraine refuses to do so, they warned, Russia will increase its demands to include six Ukrainian provinces. \u201cWe fought Sweden for twenty-one years. How long are you ready to fight?\u201d the head of the Russian delegation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2025\/05\/16\/kremlin-negotiator-invokes-peter-the-greats-21-year-war-with-sweden-in-ukraine-talks-a89109\">reportedly commented<\/a>, in reference to the eighteenth century Great Northern War. \u201cMaybe some of those sitting here at this table will lose more of their loved ones. Russia is prepared to fight forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Putin rarely makes such thinly veiled threats, he continues to insist that any settlement must focus on eliminating what he refers to as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/5\/20\/trump-fails-to-secure-ukraine-ceasefire-after-putin-call-whats-next\">root causes<\/a>\u201d of the war. This is generally understood to mean Ukraine\u2019s international neutrality and disarmament, along with the reestablishment of Russia\u2019s former imperial dominance in every sphere of Ukrainian public life, from language and education to national memory and religion. Any Ukrainian leader who agreed to such terms would be signing their country\u2019s death sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s efforts to talk up the prospects of a negotiated peace and his attempts to entice Putin with commercial incentives suggest a fundamentally flawed understanding of Russia\u2019s war aims in Ukraine. The US leader seems to sincerely believe that Putin can be persuaded to end his invasion by the promise of limited territorial gains and future economic prosperity. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin is not fighting for Ukrainian land; he is fighting for Ukraine itself. He views the current war in the broadest of possible historical terms and sees the destruction of the Ukrainian state as a sacred mission that will define his entire reign and shape Russia\u2019s future for decades to come. It is ludicrous to suggest that he could be swayed from this messianic vision by mundane talk of trade deals and sanctions relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin\u2019s thirst for historical revenge can be traced back to his traumatic experience during the collapse of the Soviet Union. While Putin did not personally face the grinding poverty that millions of his compatriots endured in the 1990s, Russia\u2019s national fall from grace nevertheless made a profound impression on him. Ever since, he has been haunted by fears of a further imperial collapse and driven by a determination to reverse the verdict of 1991. This has fueled his revanchist brand of Russian nationalism, and helps to explain his otherwise inexplicable obsession with Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout his reign, Putin has made no secret of his bitter resentment over the breakup of the USSR, which he has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/putin-historical-russia-soviet-breakup-ukraine\/31606186.html\">called<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cthe greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century\u201d and \u201cthe disintegration of historical Russia.\u201d Crucially, he views Ukraine as a central and indivisible part of this fabled \u201chistorical Russia.\u201d Indeed, the Ukrainian capital Kyiv occupies pride of place in his imperial mythology as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/world\/putin-kiev-is-the-mother-of-all-russian-cities\/2014\/03\/18\/ef945a80-ae94-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_video.html\">the mother of all Russian cities<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To Putin, the emergence of an independent Ukraine is a symbol of Russia\u2019s post-Soviet humiliation and a potential catalyst for the next stage in his country\u2019s retreat from empire. According to this twisted imperial logic, if a province as quintessentially Russian as Ukraine is allowed to break away and establish itself as a modern European democracy, the entire Russian Federation will be in danger of disintegrating. Likewise, Putin is convinced that if Ukraine can be returned to its rightful place within Greater Russia, the injustice of 1991 will be undone and Russia will resume its position among the world\u2019s Great Powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin has been attempting to force Ukraine back into the Kremlin orbit ever since the 2004&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/ukrainealert\/putins-ukraine-obsession-began-20-years-ago-with-the-orange-revolution\/\">Orange Revolution<\/a>, which he personally helped spark by clumsily intervening in Ukraine\u2019s presidential election. The violence of these efforts has escalated in direct proportion to the strengthening of modern Ukraine\u2019s own national identity. At first, Putin pursued his imperial goals in Ukraine through control of the country\u2019s political, business, cultural, and religious elites. When this failed, he ordered the 2014 invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Once it became apparent that even this partial occupation of the country would not derail Ukraine\u2019s national consolidation, Putin made the fateful decision to launch the full-scale invasion of February 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rising tide of Russian aggression against Ukraine has been accompanied by ever more extreme anti-Ukrainian rhetoric. For years, Putin has publicly insisted that Ukrainians are Russians (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rusi.org\/explore-our-research\/publications\/commentary\/russia-and-ukraine-one-people-putin-claims\">one people<\/a>\u201d). On the eve of the current invasion, he published an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/ukrainealert\/putins-new-ukraine-essay-reflects-imperial-ambitions\/\">entire essay<\/a>&nbsp;denying Ukraine\u2019s right to exist. Putin and other senior Kremlin officials have repeatedly labeled Ukraine as an artificial country built on stolen Russian land, a Nazi invention, and an intolerable \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ukraineworld.org\/en\/articles\/stories\/anti-russia\">anti-Russia<\/a>\u201d created for the purpose of undermining Russia itself. Ukrainians who insist on their own national identity are typically portrayed as traitors undeserving of sympathy or mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This dehumanizing propaganda has laid the ideological foundations for the crimes that are currently being committed by the occupying Russian army in Ukraine. Wherever the Kremlin is able to establish control, Ukrainian patriots and community leaders are routinely detained and incarcerated in a vast network of prisons and camps. While the number of victims remains unknown, UN officials have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/ukrainealert\/un-report-russia-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-in-occupied-ukraine\/\">concluded<\/a>&nbsp;that the large scale and systematic nature of the disappearances qualifies as a crime against humanity. Those who remain are subjected to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2024\/11\/10\/kremlin-occupied-ukraine-is-now-a-totalitarian-hell\">reign of terror<\/a>&nbsp;and forced to accept Russian citizenship while submitting their children to indoctrination. Meanwhile, all traces of Ukrainian national identity, culture, and statehood are being&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/1843\/2025\/02\/21\/is-putins-brainwashing-of-ukrainians-into-russians-even-a-crime\">ruthlessly erased<\/a>. Many experts believe these actions&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/04\/05\/russia-is-committing-genocide-in-ukraine\/\">qualify<\/a>&nbsp;as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/businessukraine.ua\/timothy-snyder-people-know-russia-is-committing-genocide-in-ukraine-but-are-afraid-to-say-so\/\">genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia\u2019s ongoing campaign to destroy Ukraine as a state and as a nation is taking place in front of the watching world and makes a complete mockery of US-led efforts to broker some kind of compromise peace. After all, what kind of compromise can there be between Russian genocide and Ukrainian survival?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin is understandably happy to exploit the Trump administration\u2019s enthusiasm for peace talks. This allows him to buy time, divide the West, and reduce the flow of weapons to Ukraine. But it is already abundantly clear that he has no real interest in ending his invasion. Indeed, he dare not stop. Any peace deal that secures Ukraine\u2019s survival as an independent state would be viewed in Moscow as a major defeat. Rather than taking his place alongside Stalin, Peter the Great, and Ivan the Terrible as one of Russia\u2019s greatest rulers, Putin would be remembered in Russian history as the man who lost Ukraine. He would rather fight on indefinitely than accept such a fate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump deserves considerable credit for seizing the initiative and attempting to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. At the same time, his current approach is obviously not working. The time has now come to stop seeking compromises with the Kremlin and start speaking to Putin in the language of strength. This means tightening sanctions on Russia and targeting the many countries that continue to fuel Putin\u2019s war machine. Above all, it means significantly increasing military aid to Kyiv and boosting Ukraine\u2019s ability to defeat Russia on the battlefield. Putin has staked his entire reign on the destruction of Ukraine. He will not back down unless forced to do so. Peace will only come when Ukraine is too strong to be subjugated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/ukrainealert\/putin-aims-to-destroy-ukraine-and-has-zero-interest-in-a-compromise-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">www.atlanticcouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump came away from Monday\u2019s phone call with Vladimir Putin&nbsp;expressing confidence&nbsp;that the Russian leader wants peace, but few others appear to share this optimism. 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