Putin is multiplied by the position of Ukraine’s war after the Beijing meeting

Sometimes, this is not said that this makes the most impression.

It is the reaction.

In the Russian Far East, Vladimir Putin threw a warning to the West: Don’t even think about sending soldiers – and this includes from the peace lawyer – to Ukraine.

The Russian president said: “If some forces appear there, then the fighting continues, then we move from the hypothesis that these will be legitimate targets for destruction.”

Then the reaction.

The public set out at the Economic Forum in Vladivostok, where it seems that Russian officials and business leaders welcomes the threat to “destroy” Western forces.

Monitoring the scene in the hall, I found the applause chilling.

This came just one day after Kiev’s allies, the so -called coalition in those who wish, after the “power of reassurance” after the war to Ukraine.

The audience applauded again when the Kremlin leader suggested that he would be ready to meet Ukraine President Volodimir Zelinski – but only on the homeland.

“The best place for this is the Russian capital, in Hiro City Moscow,” Putin said.

Outside Russia, Putin’s proposal has been rejected as an ongoing, and it is incomplete. Political fishing.

But in many ways, it includes the current Kremlin position in the war in Ukraine: “Yes, we want peace, but only with our conditions. You reject our conditions? There is no peace after that.”

This unavoidable position is fed through a set of factors.

First, by the Kremlin’s belief that in Ukraine, Russian forces have an initiative in the battlefield.

Second, through diplomatic success. In China this week, Putin shook hands with smiles with a series of world leaders. The optics were about proving that Russia had strong friends, such as China, India and North Korea.

Then there is America. Last month, US President Donald Trump Putin invited Alaska to attend the summit meeting. Commentators supporting home at home praised the event as evidence that Western efforts to isolate Russia to the war in Ukraine have failed.

To persuade the Kremlin to end the fighting, Trump previously set the warning and final dates; He threatened with more sanctions if Russia did not make peace.

But Trump did not follow his threats – this is another reason for Russia’s confidence.

Putin publicly praises Trump’s efforts. However, Trump’s ceasefire has refused and has no desire to make concessions on the war in Ukraine.

Where does that leave the possibilities of peace?

Putin recently said he could see “light at the end of the tunnel.”

It seems to me that Russia is now on the one hand, and Ukraine and Europe (and to some extent America) on the other hand is in different tunnels, on different roads, with different destinations.

Ukraine and Europe focus on ending the fighting, forming security guarantees Kiev and ensuring that the Ukrainian army is strong enough after the war to prevent another invasion.

When Putin talks about “light at the end of the tunnel”, I think he imagines a road leading to a Russian victory in Ukraine, and on a large scale, to build a new world order that benefits Russia.

With regard to peace, it is difficult to know where and when these two highly different methods are close to.