Ukraine is being boxed in by three forces at once: a corruption scandal that reaches into Zelensky’s old circle, a peace plan drafted between Washington and Moscow, and a frontline that is creeping the wrong way. Trump’s deadline does not solve any of this. It exposes the fact that Kyiv’s choices are now about managing different forms of defeat, not choosing victory.
The twenty eight point peace plan now on the table does not end the Ukraine war on Western terms. It writes into law what the battlefield has already decided. Ukraine is pushed out of NATO, loses more land, and becomes a neutral buffer, while Europe discovers it was collateral in a project that overreached from the start.
Ukraine was sold to Western publics as a clean moral war: brave defenders, honest aid, a shattered Russia at the end of it. What emerges instead is a corrupt and exhausted client state, a Russia that chooses when and where to advance, and a Germany hollowed out by lost energy and bad bets
For two years Western governments and media promised victory in Ukraine, portraying Russia as weak and isolated. That narrative has collapsed. Sanctions failed, NATO’s industrial base faltered, and the battlefield turned. Europe faces de-industrialisation while Russia’s economy and army expand. The press that once sold triumph now prepares audiences for retreat, conditioning the public for a negotiated peace — one dictated on Moscow’s terms, not Washington’s.
THE TELEGRAPH.COM LONG READ — Europe no longer wages war only on the battlefield. It wages it in language, in narrative, and in the stories it tells itself. A generation of leaders has replaced strategy with moral theatre, diplomacy with slogans, and truth with propaganda and now the bill for that self-deception is coming due.
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