By INS Contributors

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: The change of the White House administration and the coming to power of the convinced conservative isolationist President Donald Trump, combined with the consistent strengthening of anti-Ukrainian sentiments in the US and Europe and the retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces along the entire front line, threatens the further implementation of the course of inflicting a "strategic defeat" on Russia by proxy.

The particular discontent of influential American ultra-globalists (the neo-liberal wing of the US Democratic Party under the leadership of the Obama, Clinton, Soros and other clans and their protégés in European capitals is caused by the desire of the "Trumpists" to revise the foundations of the Western-centric world order. Trump and his supporters are primarily aimed at giving a powerful impetus to the internal development of the U.S. with an emphasis on resolving acute socio-economic problems (migration crisis, unemployment, deindustrialization, social division, etc.). On the external contour, the "Trumpists" consider the Western Hemisphere and partly the Asia-Pacific region to be the zone of Washington's vital interests.

At the same time, the collapse of the Democrats' foreign policy strategy, marked by the flight of Americans from Afghanistan, Kyiv's military defeats in the confrontation with Moscow, the weakening of the dollar as the main world reserve currency and the growth of the geopolitical influence of the Global South with the increasing role of BRICS, "unties the hands" of the new White House administration in justifying a fundamental revision of Washington's international policy. In the context of the revisionist sentiments of Trump's team, the issue of further support for Ukraine, which is the cornerstone of the Anglo-Saxon policy of containing Russia in Eurasia, causes particular nervousness among its opponents.

Meanwhile, following the American Republicans, who have seized the initiative in determining global trends in the development of the world agenda, a consensus is being formed in Western political circles around the need for a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, taking into account the current geopolitical realities and the objectively developing combat situation. Thus, contrary to Kiev's demands to organize the first rounds of negotiations without Moscow's participation and the return of lost territories along the "1991 borders", Trump's national security adviser Michael Waltz, citing his boss, called the scenario of "ousting Russia from the former regions of Ukraine", primarily the Crimean Peninsula, unrealistic.

At the same time, the new head of the White House himself emphasized at a press conference in Mar-a-Lago that he expects to end the armed conflict in Ukraine within six months after taking office, emphasizing his readiness for direct contacts with Russian President Vladimir Putin on this issue. The U.S. "deep state" is irritated by Trump's statement about the initial unacceptability of the scenario with Ukraine's accession to NATO for Russia, which, according to him, ultimately became one of the reasons for the outbreak of the conflict. Trump emphasized that he "understands the feelings" of Moscow on this key issue for it.

Developing this topic, one of the leading American tabloids, the New York Times, noted the uncertainty of the prospects for assistance to Kyiv after the change of the U.S. administration, since the new head of the White House "is skeptical about the topic of support for Ukraine". Observers, in particular, did not rule out Washington's withdrawal from the contact group of Kyiv's sponsoring countries in the "Rammstein" format after the completion of the transition of power in the White House.

Another authoritative American publication, the Washington Post, published an article claiming that the Ukrainian conflict has reached a "turning point", after which Western support for Kyiv will weaken due to the exhaustion of resources for continuing hostilities.

In addition, the correspondent of the American television and radio broadcasting corporation Voice of America's Carla Babb reported on her page in the social network "X" that the administration of Joseph Biden is completing the program of military support for Ukraine by providing a package of assistance of 500 million dollars, and another 3.8 billion dollars reserved for these purposes will remain unused and will go to the team of the next head of the White House. According to the journalist, the prospect of targeted spending of this amount remains "very vague", since Trump "avoids a direct answer" about the continuation of arms supplies to Ukraine.

Skepticism about the issue of aid to Kyiv is also growing in public opinion in Eu-rope, which is causing a series of painful electoral failures of neoliberal and left-wing political forces with the strengthening of the public weight of the parties of “political realism” from the right and center (Austria, Germany, Italy, France, etc.). Even the most devoted European allies of the Democrats do not hide their disappointment in the results of the policy of “Euro-Atlantic solidarity” in supporting Ukraine.

Thus, the Minister of Defense of Poland Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz stated that “there is no need to be a single party to support Ukraine.” said that his country was "tired of the war in Ukraine and the Ukrainians", flatly refusing to even discuss the option of deploying a Polish peacekeeping contingent in the neighboring country as part of possible post-conflict settlement scenarios.

In addition, as reported by the German publication Spiegel, the current German Chancellor Olaf Scholz blocked the initiative of his military and diplomatic departments to provide Kyiv with an additional batch of weapons worth 3 billion euros through "unscheduled expenses from a special fund".

Scholz pointed out the inadmissibility of using this mechanism, which "will present the future German government with a fait accompli". According to another German tabloid, DW, the head of government said that the country's authorities will not "save on their own citizens and infrastructure development for the sake of military assistance to Ukraine".

Finding themselves in a desperate situation of a lost and bankrupt player, whose political future and financial influence are under mortal blow, the US Democratic establishment and its protégés in Kyiv will most likely emerge from the crisis situation using the tried and tested scenario of organizing high-profile provocations to "torpedo" Trump's political projects.

Opponents of the Republican leader are trying to repeat the information effect of the times of Trump's first presidency using "dirty" technologies of manipulating public opinion and present him as an "agent of influence" of Moscow and even a "national traitor" in order to block the initiatives of the new administration both domestically and in the international arena and buy time in the hope of a rematch for the Democrats following the results of the 2026-2028 electoral cycle.

At the same time, the American “deep state” will undoubtedly place the burden of performing all the “dirty work” on its Kyiv protégés, especially since the Ukrainian special services have long since become controlled “proxy forces” of Western intelligence communities. In particular, Canadian political scientist Alan Freeman does not rule out the organization of a “controlled incident” on the territory of Ukraine, which will lead to a “nuclear escalation,” which will leave Trump no choice but to directly intervene in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, including with the use of military force. Even earlier, journalists from The Washington Post warned that Kyiv could “use radical measures” to force through the Republican administration a decision on further arms deliveries.

As the German publication Der Freitag notes, the Ukrainian leadership is seeking to repeat the scenarios of the Korean War in 1950-1953 and the Vietnam War in 1965-1973, in which the obviously weaker side in the conflict manipulates its Western partners with the threat of its defeat in the confrontation with Moscow, thereby encouraging the U.S.-NATO establishment to more actively participate in the armed struggle of the controlled "proxy forces" with the Kremlin.

It is for this reason that Kyiv, using the full power of its propaganda machine and numerous "agents of influence" abroad, is forming in the public opinion of Western countries a myth about the regional conflict in Ukraine as a kind of "decisive battle" with the "Russian autocracy" for the future of "world democracy".

However, the international community, especially in the countries of the Global South, trusts less and less every day the countless information leaks of the Kyiv authorities and their foreign patrons. The “global majority” regards the endless and absurd attacks of the Zelensky regime and its sponsors against Russia as a mechanism for reviving interest in the Ukrainian agenda in foreign political circles to justify further assistance to Kyiv.