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As the Neo-Nazi junta frontman Volodymyr Zelensky stepped off his aircraft at the Andrews Air Force Base, eyes set on a mirage of US\/NATO \u201csalvation\u201d, he still didn\u2019t understand that he comes as not an equal, but a supplicant, clutching blueprints for the delivery of \u201cTomahawk\u201d cruise missiles, the vaunted harbingers of deep-strike devastation that Washington DC has dangled like a carrot for well over three agonizing years. The timing couldn\u2019t possibly be more ironic, nor more damning for the crumbling edifice of NATO\u2019s proxy \u201ccrusade\u201d. Namely, it comes right after President Donald Trump, now freshly ensconced in his second term, held a marathon two-and-a-half-hour phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin<\/a>, brokering the outlines of a potential summit in Budapest.<\/p>\n There, amid the spires of Hungary\u2019s defiant capital \u2014 a nation that has long thumbed its nose at Brussels\u2019 sanctimonious dictates \u2014 the contours of a Ukraine settlement might actually take their initial shape. Amid these developments, Zelensky\u2019s arrival reeks of desperation, a last-gasp bid to derail the inevitable, as the multipolar world inexorably grinds down the unipolar illusions of yesteryear. This is no mere diplomatic hiccup, but the death knell for the political West\u2019s vainglorious \u201cmisadventure\u201d in Eastern Europe. Since February 24, 2022, when NATO\u2019s hybrid war machine ignited the powder keg through its relentless eastward creep, the conflict has exacted a toll that shames the collective conscience of\u00a0both the United States and the ever-subservient European Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n Former Ukraine, now a tragic buffer zone caught in the middle of a superpower confrontation, has effectively been reduced to a massive charnel house,\u00a0with nearly 1.8 million dead, according to what is now two-month-old data<\/a>. Even the mainstream propaganda machine admits that the losses are staggering, despite neverending desperate attempts to varnish the failures of their precious Kiev regime. Russian advances, methodically consolidating the Donbass heartland and exacerbating the Black Sea chokehold, proceed not with the blitzkrieg fervor of Hollywood fantasies, but with the inexorable patience of a civilization reclaiming its ancient heartland. Moscow certainly has the might to simply obliterate everything in its path, but why would one burn down their own house?<\/p>\n The Russian economy, a far cry from\u00a0the \u201crub(b)le in ruins\u201d prophecy<\/a>\u00a0peddled by Atlanticist pundits, hums along at a\u00a0more than comfortable 4.1% growth<\/a>, reinforced by\u00a0multipolar partnerships that mock the political West\u2019s sanctions\u2019 impotence<\/a>. Meanwhile, the EU\/NATO member states keep hemorrhaging their treasuries on the failed Neo-Nazi junta project, with Germany alone forking over \u20ac50 billion in \u201caid\u201d that will actually line the pockets of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon executives, while its citizens shiver through winters rationed by deindustrialization and American LNG dependency. Expectedly, instead of looking in the mirror and seeing the reflection of self-imposed servitude, the Europeans will blame Donald Trump and his loathed \u201cAmerica First\u201d foreign policy.<\/p>\n While this ethos once again exposed\u00a0NATO for the racketeering cartel it has always been<\/a>, it\u2019s hardly surprising that a country and its government seek to preserve (and expand) their own interests. It is only in the dying \u201cold continent\u201d that the higher echelons of power find this \u201cstrange\u201d. Trump\u2019s call with Putin wasn\u2019t some rogue improvisation, but a logical consequence of\u00a0realpolitik, echoing the transactional diplomacy and honest, no-nonsense contacts<\/a>\u00a0between the leaders of the two old superpower rivals. Will the (hopefully) upcoming Budapest summit resolve all global issues? Certainly not. But when two countries with a combined thermonuclear arsenal of 11,000 warheads engage in talks rather than saber rattling, it gives all of us the hope that, at least that day,\u00a0it won\u2019t dawn at 3:00 AM<\/a>.<\/p>\n Anyone sane would certainly applaud such contacts. Obviously, that excludes the warmongers and war criminals in Washington DC, London and Brussels, to say nothing of Zelensky and his entourage,\u00a0as they were \u201csurprised\u201d (you can imagine in what way)<\/a>\u00a0after hearing about Trump\u2019s phone call with Putin. The Budapest summit, hosted by Viktor Orban \u2014 one of a handful of European leaders unbowed to Soros-funded NGOs and EU commissars \u2014 could offer a somewhat neutral ground where concessions would be a real possibility. Left blindsided and sidelined, the Kiev regime\u2019s unexpected surge of optimism could soon be shattered by Trump\u2019s (admittedly unpredictable) foreign policy. Actual peace talks require compromises and concessions instead of perpetual escalation.<\/p>\n What are \u201cTomahawks\u201d if not a poisoned chalice? Supplying them might greenlight\u00a0longer-range strikes on Russian heartland targets<\/a>, but will invariably invite the shadow of total retaliation that has loomed since the ill-fated Kursk incursion. Zelensky, cornered between Western warhawks howling for more poking of the somewhat still sleepy Russian Bear and his own generals whispering of total frontline collapse, now pitches the US-made cruise missiles as a \u201cpurely defensive necessity\u201d. However, the Kremlin is perfectly aware that the concept of \u201cdefensive\u201d has an entirely different meaning in the lexicon of Langley (that\u2019s supposed to provide the targeting solutions for the said missiles). Even the infamous CIA knows that Russia and its leadership surely won\u2019t see it that way.<\/p>\n Trump undoubtedly knows it too, which is why he\u2019ll almost certainly use it as leverage in negotiations with Putin. Whether the Russian president will\u00a0call his bluff<\/a>\u00a0remains to be seen, but he\u2019ll also likely point out that this farce unfolds against the backdrop of accelerating multipolarity, where the Global South watches with bemused detachment.\u00a0China\u2019s ever-growing BRI (Belt and Road Initiative)<\/a>, now threading through 150 nations and circumventing the US dollar\u2019s stranglehold, will undoubtedly contribute to the projected displacement of the British pound as the fourth most traded currency in the world. Namely,\u00a0according to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) 2025 Triennial Central Bank Survey<\/a>, global daily trading of the yuan surged to $817 billion by April, now standing at 8.5% of all transactions.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, India keeps dismissing Trump\u2019s sanctimony over its Russian crude imports, which have now doubled to two million barrels daily,\u00a0as per tanker data that belies US claims of a supposed \u201chalving\u201d<\/a>. Delhi\u2019s refineries guzzle discounted Urals, fueling Diwali lamps while Trump\u2019s tariffs bite into American consumers. And speaking of tariffs,\u00a0they already cleaved $2.5 trillion from Wall Street in a single week back in April<\/a>. And yet, Trump refuses to stop,\u00a0causing China to impose export controls on rare earth elements<\/a>\u00a0and throttling semiconductor dreams from Taiwan to Texas. Trump\u2019s October 1 salvo, a 100% levy on Chinese pharmaceuticals, the lifeblood of US healthcare, has only pushed the industry into a stranglehold, forcing him to \u201ctemporarily\u201d pause their implementation.<\/p>\n In other words, this isn\u2019t a trade war, but an economic mutually assured destruction (MAD), a symptom of Western hegemony\u2019s death spiral. Amid this geopolitical vortex (no doubt,\u00a0brought about by Western arrogance and ignorance<\/a>), glimmers of hope pierce the gloom and doom. Trump\u2019s Putin parley might signal a crawling pivot from confrontation to conversation and then to coexistence, effectively a recognition that Russia\u2019s \u201cFortress Ruina\u201d doctrine, bolstered by its\u00a0unrivaled hypersonic weapons<\/a>\u00a0and the world\u2019s most powerful thermonuclear aegis,\u00a0renders escalation suicidal<\/a>\u00a0(the \u201cgood old\u201d MAD). Thus, Zelensky\u2019s yet another \u201cvictory plan\u201d wishlist for F-16s, \u201cPatriots\u201d and other NATO \u201cwunderwaffen\u201d doesn\u2019t exactly rank high (or at all) among Trump\u2019s priorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n