Petro Oleshchuk: Russians Want To Roll Back The War

The Ukrainians' new approaches have changed the course of events.

Ukrainian political scientist, professor of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University Petr Oleshchuk in a comment to Charter97.org named major events in the world for the year 2025:

- This year everything changed very dynamically. I consider the inauguration of Donald Trump to be the main event that shaped everything that followed. That is to say, the year 2025 passed under Trump's signs, with all the consequences that entails. The incumbent US president, no matter how we evaluate his activities, has quite seriously changed everything in the world.

So far, he has rather established himself as a destroyer, like the god Shiva from Indian mythology, who destroys the world in a dance. By the way, Trump also likes to dance, so there are some funny analogies here.

In general, the US president has launched destructive processes of destroying the old world. We can't say that they were launched just now, because a lot of things started earlier, and it's hard to say what exactly can be considered the starting point of the destruction of the world we knew. Whether it started with Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine, or earlier.

But in any case, the world we knew a year ago no longer exists and probably never will. That is, Atlantic unity is especially imperceptible, the West is fragmented, the world is fragmenting, breaking into some interest groups. Trump has launched the final stage of dismantling the old world, which is what we are now witnessing.

- In what state is the Russian Federation approaching next year?

- This is a very difficult question, since we are talking about a closed state, with certain expressive undemocratic tendencies, with a tendency to hide statistics or even outright falsify them. Therefore, it is not easy to objectively assess the situation in Russia.

But the way the Russian leadership is bowing to Trump shows that their victory speeches are somewhat exaggerated, and in fact, not everything is going so well for them. Any war of attrition exhausts both sides. It's just a question of who is more and who is less.

I think that the new approaches to warfare, which are connected with strikes on oil refineries, on the Russian "shadow fleet", which the SBU has been doing quite effectively lately, it seems to me that all this also affects Russia and its economy. They too, despite all their victory speeches that they are ready to fight for a year, two, ten, and twenty, in fact they would like to end it all sooner, but in a favorable way for themselves.

We, Ukrainians, expect a possible end to the war next year. Naturally, not at any price. So that the end of the war or at least some kind of its suspension would leave Ukraine with opportunities and chances for development, for economic recovery.

This is probably the main thing that everyone is waiting for. And a lot depends on it.

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