Berlin, Germany (Weltexpress). The fact that the US ceasefire agreement dished up by Washington is a London-crafted plot against Russia and also Trump becomes clear here in Part II. But for it to work, someone on the Trump team had to play along.
During his recent visit to the White House, Zelensky could have saved the situation if he had agreed to the ceasefire negotiations demanded by Trump. However, he has repeatedly refused to do so since the start of the war on February 24, 2022. Why Zelensky suddenly gave up his categorical opposition to a ceasefire is partly clear against the backdrop of the collapsing Ukrainian front in Kursk and the loss of his last trump card. However, the step towards accepting ceasefire negotiations, which was so unpleasant for him, was sweetened by the British.
To this end, the Keir Starmer government had come up with a devious plan typical of the perfidious Albion, which was briefly described in a March 9 edition of the London paper “ The Times “. According to the article, the British Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser, Jonathan Powell, traveled to Ukraine last weekend to instruct President Vladimir Zelensky on how Kiev’s representatives should behave during negotiations with the Americans. He advised the sweaty Ukrainian in the green T-shirt to conduct the negotiations with the USA in such a way that Russia becomes recognizable as an obstacle to peace.
According to the article, he also advised Zelensky to make it clear to the US representatives that Kiev is “responding to the demands of the USA”. This should give US President Donald Trump the impression that Russia is the real obstacle to a solution to the conflict.
This PR coup, concocted by the British – with the support of the EU warmongers – in favor of Zelensky in the guise of a Ukrainian “peace offer” served the purpose:
- to ensure the continuation of the proxy war in Ukraine,
- and get the Americans involved in the war again, which London has already succeeded in doing, if the resumption of US arms supplies to Ukraine is anything to go by.
- to revitalize the willingness of the war-weary Western population to pour hundreds of billions of euros and dollars in financial and arms aid into the bottomless pit of the already lost war in Ukraine.
Following the scandal with Zelensky in the White House, US President Trump declared that US arms deliveries would only be resumed when he could see “that Ukraine wants peace”. In Trump’s mind, however, peace begins with a ceasefire. And this is exactly what the head of the Ukrainian delegation, Andriy Yermak, first deputy to Zelensky, put on the table for US Secretary of State Rubio at the meeting in Jeddah, namely an offer with Zelensky’s agreement to a 30-day ceasefire.
And Marco Rubio immediately reported it to Washington and the international media as a major breakthrough for peace. He did this even though he, or at least his advisors, should have realized that Russia could never accept this fake peace offer. The suspicion that Rubio is playing a double game with the EU warmongers against Trump’s peace initiative is not entirely unfounded.
Before his nomination in November 2024 as US Secretary of State by Trump, US Senator Marco Rubio was known for his hard line against Russia and his enthusiastic support for Ukraine. In March 2022, for example, he said: “The world becomes a very scary place when we allow rogues like Putin to attack sovereign nations without serious consequences. We must be clear and unyielding in our support for the Ukrainian people’s fight against a ruthless tyrant, and that starts with calling his actions what they are – an act of terrorism.”
This was not a verbal slip; in all his years as a US senator, he was always vocally anti-Russian and pro-Ukrainian and supported every conceivable sanction against Russia in the US Congress. However, his anti-Russian rhetoric began to change and became increasingly aligned with Donald Trump’s foreign policy views after he was considered by Trump for the role of Secretary of State. Suddenly, Rubio began to favor a negotiated solution to the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
But since a leopard cannot change its spots like a chameleon, doubts are justified as to whether the dyed in the wool, Russophobic admirer of “Ukrainian democracy”, Marco Rubio, has really turned from a Saul into a Paul under the influence of Trump. His behavior after the meeting with the Ukrainians rather suggests that the spots on this leopard’s coat have not changed either.
In this context, Scott Ritter has commented: “I have lost faith in the honesty of Trump’s negotiating team. A 30-day ceasefire would be a boon for Ukraine. A chance to stabilize the front lines and undo all the tactical and operational advantages Russia has gained through the blood and sacrifice of its soldiers. And once Ukraine has recovered, then to sit at a table where a recovered Ukraine rejects Russia’s terms for peace.
Trump’s team did not negotiate in good faith. And do we have the fact that this US offer comes at a time after Ukraine has carried out a massive drone attack on exclusively civilian targets in Moscow? Russia will reject this ridiculous offer. And hopefully escalate the violence to the point where the US realizes that there needs to be a realistic peace offer agreed to in writing before a ceasefire goes into effect. An offer that includes the withdrawal of all Ukrainian forces from the constitutional territories of Russia. The Ukrainian troops can leave voluntarily. Or they will die. Trump is not serious about peace. And Ukraine will bear the consequences.”
“Again, how can Russia take such a government seriously and regard its word as an irrevocable guarantee for far-reaching agreements that affect Russia’s existential strategic security?”
Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s close confidant and global envoy, is scheduled to visit Moscow on Thursday, March 13, to discuss the matter with President Putin. However, there is no reason why Putin will tell him anything other than what he and the entire Russian political and military leadership have been demanding since the beginning of the Russian special operation in Ukraine.
The criminal Ukrainian regime, which started this terrible war with its NAZI terror attacks against the Donbass back in 2014, is on the ground. There will be no security guarantees from the West for this regime that will be accepted by Russia. The die has been cast and neither the USA nor the EU/NATO can change this outcome. The most they can do is prolong the dying in Ukraine.
At the same time, the behavior of Rubio and his team after the meeting with the Ukrainians in Jeddah is likely to have only strengthened the Russians in their judgment of US governments, regardless of their color, in the assumption that the US is not a reliable negotiating partner, which is confirmed by a look at the international round: unilateral US breaches of international treaties, such as with Iran, lies, intrigues, USAID-financed coups and color revolutions, etc. unilateral US breaches of international treaties, such as with Iran, lies, intrigues, USAID-financed coups and color revolutions, sanctions that violate international law, piracy and theft of other countries’ assets, etc….
To normalize relations, it is not Russia that needs to take a leap of faith, but the USA, if it ever gets that far again.
