Spodaj je dobra kronologija dogodkov, ki so vodili do začetka vojne v Ukrajini. Napisal jo je Leonid Ragozin, novinar iz Latvije, ki je pisal za The Guardian, BBC, Al Jazeero itd. Splača se prebrati, ker pomaga razumeti, kdaj in zakaj je prišlo do preobrata v politiki Zelenskega glede mirne rešitve državljanske vojne v Donbasu in kakšna je bila vloga Trumpa in Bidna pri tem ter zakaj je Trump glede Ukrajine mirovnik. Vse stvari, ki se zgodijo, imajo zelo dolg rep.
(Drugje v slovenskih medijih tega seveda ne boste zasledili. Z razlogom)
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Last month, Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the war in Ukraine “would never have started” if he’d been president. At first blush, this seemed like a classic Trumpian boast—yet another off-hand exaggeration from the mind that brought us statements like “I alone can fix it” and “nobody’s ever done a better job than I’m doing as president.” But, in this case, Trump may well be right. A close examination of the events leading up to the Ukraine war suggests that the conflict would have been avoided if Trump had defeated Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Trump pursued plenty of tough policies toward Moscow during his first term, including the imposition of new sanctions and expulsion of a number of Russian diplomats, but he also acted as a restraint on the hawkishness of Washington’s security establishment. Such moderation ceased under Trump’s successor. As soon as Joe Biden moved into the White House, Washington adopted a far more confrontational stance toward Russia. Kyiv followed suit. This was a fateful pivot, one that has received too little attention in stories of the conflict. By insisting on a policy of high-handed intransigence, Biden and the hawks in Washington led millions of people into disaster.
In April 2019, during the third year of Trump’s first presidency, Ukrainians elected Volodymyr Zelensky as their new president. The former comedian had no background in government, but he ran on a clear and popular promise: to end a grinding, low-intensity war in eastern Ukraine. That war had begun in 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea, and pro-Russian separatists—backed by Moscow—seized control of parts of eastern Ukraine. Unlike his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, a favorite of the Washington foreign policy establishment, Zelensky presented himself as a peacemaker and pragmatist. He promised to respect the rights of Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population (of which he was part) and pledged to negotiate directly with Moscow to bring about an end to the fighting.
For his first year and a half in office, Zelensky acted on those promises. In July of 2019, he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone and pushed for negotiations with European mediation. The two men also discussed a potential exchange of prisoners. In December 2019, Zelensky met with Putin in Paris, and the two agreed to negotiate a comprehensive ceasefire. By March of 2020, Zelensky was so optimistic about reaching a settlement that he told the Guardian he would end the conflict by December of that year.

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