#泽连斯基: Foreign leaders should not visit with their bare hands ##泽连斯基: Don't care about Russia's views on Western military aid ##乌方邀请俄在亚速钢铁厂附近谈判 #
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Remember what Zelenskiy just said not long ago?
Zelenskiy said that US Secretary of State Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin will visit Ukraine on the 24th local time, hoping that they "will not come empty-handed."
Today, the two have arrived in Kiev and are talking with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
However, unlike the high profile of the Ukrainian side, the United States moved very quickly, but the voice was very low-key, it can be said that if it were not for Zelenskiy's early "leak", I am afraid that no one in the outside world would know about the visit of senior US officials to Ukraine.
Whether they came empty-handed or with "weapons packages" is unclear, but it is likely that this is also something that the United States is worried about.
The roots behind this visit are not shallow.
Or three signal lights will be lit, which will become the key to determining the future direction of the situation.
First, why should it be kept confidential? You may want to play a trick behind your back
If you think that the trick that the United States can do is nothing more than to send weapons and shake them out of it, it is too underestimating them.
According to the Observer Network quoted Reuters as a report, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Kiev is planning a new round of provocations, intending to discredit Russia internationally, and the Russian military intelligence department has received information that the Ukrainian security agencies intend to use toxic chemicals in the southern port of Odessa, and then blame it on the Russian military, giving Russia a hat of "attacking civilian facilities".
On April 18, the Ukrainian army transported a 10-ton ammonia gas tank from the city to the cold storage, the Ukrainian personnel have received personal protective clothing, the Ukrainian side is likely to simulate the Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian naval base in the next period of time, detonate the cold storage only 500 meters from the base, and release toxic gases.
Immediately after, Zelenskiy will run out to accuse the Russian army of "atrocities" as before, and seek the support and help of the whole world.
Does this have anything to do with the United States? Of course.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova pointed the finger at the United States on her personal social media accounts, claiming that the United States and its allies are preparing for an anti-Russian provocation and have reached the final stages, and they are fully prepared to slander the Russian military's use of pathogens and military agents in Ukraine.
She said: The United States has found some contracting agencies controlled by the West to investigate the use of weapons, and only after the Order of the White House, all kinds of Western media have begun to spread a large number of false news that "Russia uses chemical weapons", completely disregarding the following facts: that is, for more than 5 years, there has never been any chemical weapons in the Russian military arsenal, which experts on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons can testify.
That is to say, the United States has played an important auxiliary role, and may even play a mastermind role, in this possible defamation attack that Ukraine may launch against Russia. Ukraine has a precedent in cooperating with the United States in disseminating public opinion, and this visit may lead to countermeasures for the next action of the Russian military to achieve a common purpose.
Second, the United States may provide Ukraine with a "super gift package" to complete the NATOization of the Ukrainian army
"Don't come empty-handed, we're looking forward to more than gifts and cakes, but more importantly, weapons and equipment..."
Zelenskiy has said that the probability of the two senior OFFICIALS visiting the United States with empty hands will certainly not be too high, but this aid is also a difficult problem for the United States.
Originally, the visit of the US secretary of state and defense minister to Ukraine was the highest in the Ukrainian side, and the United States had not confirmed it the day before the visit, so some experts believed that Ukraine was somewhat "kidnapping diplomacy" with the United States, that is to say, the matter of visiting Ukraine may still be in the discussion stage, but after Zelenskiy publicized it, Blinken and Austin had to go.
In fact, before that, Zelenskiy also invited Biden to visit Ukraine, but the White House politely refused, and then the "Bucha Incident" occurred, British Prime Minister Johnson, EU President von der Leyen and others have gone to Kiev to "punch the clock", and now THE SECRETARy-General of the United Nations Guterres has also booked a trip, planning to visit Ukraine after visiting Russia, which invisibly gives the United States some pressure.
Although Zelenskiy has been asking the West for aid, it is fair to say that the United States has been large enough to assist Ukraine in this period of time, 155 mm large-caliber artillery, armored vehicles, mobile anti-aircraft missile systems, etc. If this is not enough, what else can the United States provide? The lethality is even greater, and I am afraid that Russia will attack the United States.
Moreover, after the end of this visit to Ukraine, the United States also plans to meet with the 40 invited allies on the 26th, who will discuss in Washington to help Ukraine establish military forces, involve the modernization and upgrading of the Ukrainian army, and even discuss long-term defense relations. This is equivalent to already treating Ukraine as a NATO country.
Therefore, Zelenskiy confidently said that as long as there is the help of Western allies, as long as Ukraine has enough weapons, then the Ukrainian army will be able to recover the lost land.
The United States continues to hype up the heat of the war, which shows that the suppression of Russia has not yet ended, the strategic purpose has not yet been achieved, and the United States does not intend to stop there
In the words of netizens, the United States is bouncing on Russia's "bottom line".
Russia has repeatedly warned that the united states providing weapons to Ukraine is tantamount to direct confrontation with Russia, so as long as the vehicles transporting weapons by the US military enter Ukraine, the Russian military will mercilessly regard it as a target.
Therefore, the route of transporting weapons by the United States is tortuous, most of the time only to be transported to neighboring countries, and Ukraine itself needs to cross the border to pick up, although the United States is trying to avoid being involved in war, but in fact the risk of direct conflict between the United States and Russia is increasing.
Some experts believe that if the United States really responds to Zelenskiy's needs and gives larger weapons of destruction, then it is not impossible for the Russian military to strike at the supply of US troops across borders under the condition of extreme dissatisfaction.
The current strategic objectives of the United States have not yet been achieved, so of course it will do everything in its power to prevent an armistice, and the United States may want to drag this conflict until Russia and the European Union are weakened to a certain extent, until they cannot threaten the United States.
But for the current situation is difficult to see, Ukraine itself is very fragile, does not have the ability to glue with Russia for a longer time, can only rely on the West to continuously supply firepower, more importantly, the Ukrainian army on the battlefield firepower demand is very large, fire waste is also very serious.
Now one-third of the stock of the US "Javelin" missiles has been emptied by Ukraine, but Zelenskiy still feels that it is not enough, and once the weapons arrive, they will soon be gone, and some specific types of weapons cannot be processed by the United States.
(American Javelin missile)
Although at present the West is speaking well, sending weapons, and holding meetings to help arm the Ukrainian army, it is likely that it is only a strategy to slow down the army, and when the two sides have completely lost the possibility of peace talks, the West may still blame each other in terms of assistance, exert pressure on each other, and pay lip service but not be real.
After all, some things are easier said than done, a completely modern army, many countries in the world can not buy it with money, Zelenskiy wants to get it through demand and begging, it is really too whimsical.
It doesn't matter how many undead souls have been added under the fire of the United States!