In the past two weeks, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky has undertaken a campaign to present, first before the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, then before the US and its main partners, and finally before the European Council, what he has called the Plan for Victory. . It is a five-point plan, in addition to three annexes that remain secret except for its closest allies, which in its opinion – if adopted now – could lead to the end of the war within a year without any territorial loss. for Ukraine, that is, with its victory
The plan comes at a time when, after thirty-two months of war, things are going badly on the battlefield for the Ukrainian forces, who are losing ground – slowly but inexorably – in the Donbass, and with difficulty maintaining part of the Russian territory that they occupied in August in the province of Kursk, and when a winter arrives that can be painful and dramatic for a Ukrainian population already very tired of the war. Zelensky tries to get his partners, particularly NATO, to increase their support and become increasingly involved in endless escalation, ignoring – as always – the risks that this strategy entails for others, especially for Europe. It seems that the Ukrainian president would not mind that his struggle was subsumed into a larger one if he achieved victory, in the same way that many Spanish republicans thought in 1939 that the republic could be saved if it held out until the foreseeable war broke out in Europe. With the difference that now the side that is supposed to be defeated has nuclear weapons
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