Washington- Entitled “Ukraine has not yet been defeated” the editorial of the Wall Street Journal, known as its proximity to it Republican Party And the administration of the American President Donald TrumpOn her belief that the raids of the Ukrainian aircraft in the depth of Russian territory reflected the will Kyiv Continuing to fight, and its ability to achieve painful injuries to its enemy, contrary to what he repeats and believes President Trump, his deputy, and his senior assistants.
At the same time, it represented the Ukraine attack on Russian military air bases, which resulted in the destruction of launcher bombers Cruise missilesSome of them can carry nuclear loads, a pleasant surprise of Washington, and a big dilemma for President Donald Trump at the same time.
Quality attacks
Experts indicated that the Ukrainian attacks will not change the course of the war, but it shows Ukraine’s ability to launch attacks far from its direct borders with Russia.
Although Russia has the enlargement of fireproof, especially in the difficult missiles, with Ukraine’s supplies dwindling with American interceptor air defense systems, Kiev – without direct American support – managed to complete one of its largest attacks ever since the war began more than 3 years ago.
The Ukrainians compare these attacks with other prominent military successes since the Russian invasion, including the drowning of the leading ship in the Russian Black Sea fleet “Mosca”, and bombing Kerch BridgeAnd both in 2022, in addition to a missile attack on the port of Sevastopol B.Crimea Peninsula In 2023.
American reports indicate that Russia has 120 strategic bombs, 40 of which were destroyed in this last blow, that is, a third of the Russian power of these combat aircraft.
Besides material damage, the attacks called Kiev sending other important messages, not only to Russia, but also to Washington and President Trump.
Trump’s prejudices
The Americans persuaded themselves that Ukraine is losing the war, and from this assumption that President Trump’s policy is launched towards the conflict, since his return to the White House last January, it seemed convinced that he could carry Russia to stop fighting, as long as it has kept Ukraine outside the “NATO” and froze the current fighting lines, allowing Russia to keep the lands that already occupy it.
Trump also froze the sending of weapons and aid to Kev, and stopped sharing intelligence as a way to pressure Ukraine to accept the new reality.
Trump had said to the president Volodimir Zellinski During their famous meeting in the Oval Office BWhite House In front of the photographers’ lenses, “Ukraine has only 6 months left, you have no cards to play with, the ball in your stadium for peace, Russia cannot lose.”
Trump rose from the tone of his hostile speech, as Zelinski described the “dictator”, and he said that it was Ukraine who started the war, while its president called for US military guarantees in exchange for signing the rare metal deal, which Trump put forward as compensation for Washington’s assistance that had over $ 180 billion, where a deal was later reached without security guarantees.
Trump and his deputy repeated JD Vans Narda that “Ukraine does not triumph in its war with Russia,” which is the argument that depends on it to take the decision to stop the American military and intelligence support to Ukraine, but Kiev showed its attacks that it has a number of cards that Washington does not know anything about.
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Internal pressure
His country considers Russia a major opponent, and as US National Intelligence Director, Toulcy Gabbard, said in the evaluation of this year’s national intelligence, “Russia is like China, a opponent of the United States, and this process proves that Ukraine is practically contributing to improving the security of the United States.”
The last Ukrainian military achievement increases the volume of political pressure in Washington on Trump, whether by Republicans or Democrats, to take more measures against Russia.
The Ukrainian attacks came just days after the Republican Senator’s visit Lindsey Graham Democratic Richard Blumentel to Ukraine, where we announced that Senate It will go ahead next week in the long -awaited draft law to impose significant additional sanctions against Russia.
Away from the battlefield, the impact of this process may be more important on the political and diplomatic arenas, with its strong response to the Trump administration’s vision that the war is inevitably moving in favor of Moscow, and this assumption is explained by the reason for the Russian president’s refusal Vladimir Putin For many proposals for a ceasefire by President Trump, and he refused to send a paper on the Kremlin terms for the ceasefire before Istanbul’s talks.
Trump’s reaction
Until the writing of this report, no reaction to the White House or President Trump has been issued to these attacks, but Washington confirmed that Kiev did not tell her in advance, and Washington only made a phone conversation between its foreign minister. Marco Rubio And his Russian counterpart Sergey LavrovWithout revealing what happened in it.
Trump was subjected to increasing criticism for his hesitation in practicing real pressure on Vladimir Putin, due to the Russian president’s failure to accept the conditions of the ceasefire proposed by Washington, despite Kiev accepting it.
On board the presidential plane, Trump said a few days ago that “something will not happen regarding the war in Ukraine only after he met personally with his Russian counterpart to resolve this crisis,” and yet Trump has returned and set a two -week final date for Putin, threatening a different response if the latter did not respond positively to his proposals to stop the fighting.
For his part, the former ambassador to Ukraine, John Hervs, advised, in a presentation on the website of the Atlantic Council, President Trump, that it is necessary to transfer a message that “if Putin is unable to persuade himself to accept the ceasefire, then new major American sanctions are coming,” considering that this message will be a smart way to benefit from the success of Ukraine in the battlefield to achieve Trump’s goal of “permanent peace in Ukraine.”