By Wayne Allensworth
The failure and waste of the Ukraine war is a sign of globalism’s impending demise.
The Ukraine war is nearing its end, and with it, the American superpower and its bid for global hegemony may end as well.
As of this writing in late March 2025, Russian forces have surrounded Ukrainian troops in Kursk Oblast in the Russian Federation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s gamble on invading Russia and attempting to trade territory in peace talks has failed. U.S. President Donald Trump has appealed to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to spare their lives. Putin responded by saying that if the Ukrainian troops laid down their arms and surrendered, they would be treated as prisoners of war according to international norms.
As Trump himself put it to Zelensky, the Ukrainian president has no cards left to play. The game is up, and Russian forces are advancing on all fronts. There is no point in restarting military aid and the flow of intelligence to the Ukrainian side, as the Trump White House said it would, should Zelensky accept the Trump administration’s approach to talks with Russia. In a phone conversation with Trump, Putin agreed to a partial ceasefire—halting attacks on energy infrastructure for 30 days—but wanted more assurances that a broader agreement would be reached, an agreement that would address the core issues that started this war in the first place, including ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine. Putin further called for a halt to military and intelligence support of the Ukrainian side.
Zelensky has executed yet another flip-flop in his position. After being admonished by both Trump and Vice President JD Vance at a White House meeting in February for his lack of gratitude and demands for yet more aid, Zelensky wrote a letter to Trump insisting that he would work under the president’s leadership to end the war. As I write, however, no ceasefire has taken place. The two sides are exchanging drone and missile strikes. Zelensky, speaking in Helsinki, said Ukraine would never agree to relinquish territories annexed by Russia, including Crimea, and reiterated his demands for more U.S. and European aid, demands that will only prolong the war.
Russia will never agree to return those territories. Indeed, polling in Russia by the Levada Center, considered a reliable polling firm by Russia watchers, has consistently shown that while the majority of respondents want peace, they do not want peace at any price. Russian poll respondents agreed that the annexed territories, which the Russian army paid a heavy price for, should remain Russian….
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Chronicles contributor Wayne Allensworth is the author of The Russian Question: Nationalism, Modernization, and Post-Communist Russia, and a novel, Field of Blood.
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