Russia has been on an offensive to sabotage the latest US-led peace talks for several weeks.
More specifically, on December 28, 2025, Donald Trump received Volodymyr Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago. The meeting was meant to “crown” the previous US-Ukrainian negotiations, between experts and special envoys (with essential European involvement) for the framework of a peace plan.
Ukraine accepts major concessions, but certain territorial concessions remain in suspension (areas not conquered by the Russians, but which the Russians still claim), as well as the way in which Ukraine was to formalize, from a legislative and constitutional perspective, those territorial compromises that Kiev, in principle, had accepted.
At this point, it remained for Russia to finally show good faith in terms of peace, which Putin had been saying and which Trump had credited the Moscow dictator.
On the other hand, immediately after the Trump-Zelensky meeting, Russia’s message comes categorically and full of Russian cunning: it rejects the outcome of the negotiations and justifies this step by launching, on December 29, the accusation that the Ukrainians had just attacked a Putin residence.
The lie is quickly deflated, globally by the Ukrainians, Europeans and even by the American secret services; and after some hesitation, Trump accepts the reality that Putin had lied to him personally again, and Russia had lied to the whole world again.
Since then, the Russian army continues unabated, sabotaging the peace desired by Trump and accepted by Zelensky, systematically bombing Ukrainian energy infrastructure and numerous apartment buildings in Ukrainian cities.
And all this, in the middle of the Siberian frost on Ukrainian territory. Further proof of Putinist sadism that would not have been needed, because this pronounced trait of the Kremlin dictator has become evident during the war.
An extremely interesting aspect, however, is the fact that every time Putin is at an impasse or in a delicate situation, even seemingly with no way out, there is always someone willing to do anything to help him: that someone being the same – Donald Trump.
Normally, the swift sabotage in the most advanced episode of the American-led peace negotiations would harm Putin more than ever in Trump’s eyes.
But this assumption was wrong. Less than three weeks later, just as the Russians are trampling on the US peace plan every day, Trump throws the Russian dictator a lifeline declaring that Putin “is ready to make a deal”. And at the same time, he throws Zelensky out of the boat, stating that “Ukraine is less prepared to reach an agreement.”
In Donald Trump’s upside-down world, the author of the disaster in Ukraine invariably has the right to a new chance, while the victim of the disaster, also invariably, has no right.
However, this misfortune of an upside-down Trumpist world is becoming more and more disgusting not only with regard to Ukraine, but also with regard to America itself. The proof? The recent tragedy in Minneapolis, in which the innocent victim of the ICE shooting becomes the target of White House opprobium, while the murderer and ICE benefits from the full support of the Oval Office.
From the testimonies of those who knew and worked closely with the US leader, either in the White House, or in the real estate or casino business, what emerges is that Donald Trump has a limited capacity for concentration, somewhere near zero, for details. He doesn’t know how to contextualize, has fixed ideas and unmovable obsessions and a memory that apparently plays tricks on him.
It’s hard to believe that such weaknesses, visible since youth, would have disappeared now in old age. On the contrary, it would be in the nature of things that they are more pronounced, possibly accompanied by new weaknesses.
It is hard to believe that such weaknesses, once they manifested themselves on subjects infinitely less complex than those specific to the office of US president and, in this case, specific to the mission to end a war like the Russian-Ukrainian one, would have disappeared today as if they never existed.
That is why it is healthy to suspect that at the origin of Donald Trump’s disastrous handling of the Russian-Ukrainian war are these deficiencies that some of Trump’s former collaborators and subordinates have taken note of and publicly exposed.
The exploitation of such weaknesses is a piece of cake, elevated to the rank of art for a dictator with a career in the KGB and an entire Russian diplomatic apparatus in turn impregnated with KGB culture and filled with human resources generally coming from the same area.
Of course, in the case of Trump-Russia, the truth may have even deeper and darker depths, but as I have said on other occasions, further clarifications will probably only emerge in the years or decades to come, when archives are unsealed.
Add to Trump’s suspicious attitude towards the Russian-Ukrainian war, as well as to the suspicious dedication with which Trump takes Putin out of every impossible situation, there is the suspicious story with Greenland.
Somehow, the annexation offensive launched by the American president is the most perverse form of aid he has offered to Putin.
Why? Because on the Greenland issue, what Trump is doing (the ongoing annexation attempt) and the way he justifies what he is doing (national security imperative) is identical to what Putin did in Ukraine (Crimea in 2014 and the rest, starting with 2022), but also to the way Putin justified what he did (also national security interest).
Moreover, in the Greenlandic context, the same Trump made it known to the entire planet that for the US there are no longer any international rights, and the limits of US actions in international politics are only regulated by the limits that Donald Trump personally considers to be appropriate. Because, as he said himself, these limits depend strictly on his “morality” (how much black humor!).
What greater help could a Putin who had already made state policy out of violation of international law receive? Rape, along with murder, is in itself the supreme form of the non-recognition of rights and rights.
Since Trump thinks like Putin and legitimizes at such a level what Putin is doing, how could it be possible for Trump to legitimately pursue peace in Ukraine? And how can you not question that, by doing so, it only legitimizes and encourages the unleashing of new wars of territorial abduction?
At the same time, through the story of the annexation of Greenland and through his philosophy of kidnap and promoting chaos, Donald Trump also incites Xi Jinping not only to annex Taiwan, but also – why not? – to annex other sovereign territories, at least on the Asian continent. Also for the reason of Chinese national security, of course.
International law acts as an insurance policy for the little ones and the powerless, but the policy was cancelled by the very leader of the country that promoted it and which for eight decades effectively safeguarded its terms and commitments.
With the US threat to Greenland and Denmark, Trump has made his international law perspective known while Europeans have found themselves faced with the most inconvenient truth: either they accelerate integration within the EU bloc, aimed at federalization in the form of the United States of Europe, or they assume their destiny as potential prey at any time. This is in a world where the very state actor who had been their most precious ally for almost a century is now among the predators.
- PS: One of the theses of the opponents of the EU is that the EU is weak and illegitimate because it devours national sovereignty. But they have also undermined every idea and every step designed to strengthen the European Union and increase and consolidate its legitimacy.
- Naturally, the evolution towards the United States of Europe would imply more advanced forms of ceding national sovereignty than today’s. But this would not happen in the sense of the disappearance of national sovereignty into nothingness, but in order to pool them. It’s a difference and a huge one.
- For Europeans, however, the alternative to such a thing is infinitely more damaging and risky, and if the criminal record of Putin’s Russia has not sufficiently clarified for us, the unimaginable prospect should do so, but now portrayed by Trump’s America.
- To the United States of Europe. If not, then chaos!
