An American observer said the United States had “deep distrust” of Zelensky.

Pelosi, Taiwan and Ukraine

American columnist for The New York Times considered US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan as part of the ongoing military special operation in Ukraine. He is confident that he will not join the United States if European countries struggling to face Russia come into conflict with China over an “unnecessary visit”.

According to Friedman, the United States needs to ensure that Ukraine “can at least blunt and at most reverse Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion, which, if successful, would pose a direct threat to the stability of the entire European Union.”

“To create the greatest possibility for Ukraine to stop Putin’s invasion, Biden and national security adviser Jake Sullivan had a series of very difficult talks with the Chinese leadership and begged Beijing not to engage in the Ukraine conflict by providing military assistance to Russia. and especially now that the arsenal is running low in Putin’s five months of stubborn war, ”the columnist wrote.

Biden told Chinese President Xi Jinping that if China entered a conflict on the side of Russia in Ukraine, “Beijing risks losing access to its two most important export markets, the US and EU.” said it himself. Friedman noted that negotiations are of great importance in this context, as China is “one of the world’s best countries in drone production” and Russia “is what it needs most now”. The journalist apparently concluded that the US and NATO provided weapons to Ukraine, while the PRC did not provide military assistance to Putin.

“Given all this, why would the Speaker of the House of Representatives decide to visit Taiwan and deliberately provoke China right now? I couldn’t have picked a worse time for that,” said the observer.

“arbitrary and pointless”

Friedman also noted that “US officials are more concerned about Ukraine’s leadership than they think.” According to him, “there is a much deeper mistrust between the White House and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky than has been reported.”

The journalist recalled that on July 17, Zelensky dismissed Prosecutor General Irina Venicetova and head of the SBU Ivan Bakanov, the “most significant change” in the Ukrainian government since the start of Russia’s special operation.

“But I still haven’t seen a single report that would convincingly explain what it’s all about. “We don’t want to look too closely under the hood for fear of what kind of corruption or weirdness we might see when we invest so much in Kiev,” Friedman said.

He concluded that senior U.S. officials still believed that Russia could use “small nuclear weapons against Ukraine” if it saw “its military would suffer imminent defeat”. The journalist stressed that the special operation is far from complete, “very unstable and not without dangerous surprises that can arise every day.”

“And yet, in the midst of all this, will we risk a conflict with China over Taiwan, provoked by an arbitrary and senseless visit by the Speaker of the House of Representatives?” asked the readers.

escape from fear

Andrey Klimov, chairman of the Federation Council Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty of the Russian Federation, said that he read Fridman’s article and wrote on his Telegram channel that Washington “never trusts anyone, especially the “Ukrainian actor”.

In his opinion, Zelensky “betrayed the interests of his voters” by not fulfilling his election promises, “made a pessimistic comedy” in domestic politics and “handed over” the country to the United States, refusing to renew the cooperation agreement with the Russian Federation. and “broken the Minsk agreements”.

“They don’t trust Zelensky in the White House and in the Capitol because he’s a traitor by nature,” Klimov said.

He is sure that they feared in Washington that he “didn’t get out of the Ukrainian political scene prematurely”.

“The truth is that the former residents of the Ukrainian SSR have nowhere to escape, except perhaps captivity, at the mercy of the winners in the fight for something better.”

Immediately after the start of the special operations, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, told RBC that the head of state would not leave the country “to the end”. On March 5, Zelensky announced on Instagram (the company that owns Meta was considered an extremist organization) that he did not flee Kiev and continues to work.