On Johnson's plan for Trump

The reason is simple: Russia, like Yanukovych, never retreats voluntarily. Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions are already officially included in the Russian Constitution, and no one will remove them from there as long as the Russian Federation exists.

Therefore, the only realistic goal of Johnson's plan is not to return Ukraine to the borders of 2021 (this will never happen on the basis of an "agreement with Russia"), but to return Johnson to the front pages of the Western press.

And Johnson understands Russia no better than Trump (or Biden).

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The other day I heard a phrase: "Western politicians are used to Russia being basically rational and negotiable, so it's hard for them to accept that it's not." In fact, it is not truly cooperative (i.e., it adheres to any agreements only as long as it is profitable for it), but it is quite rational. It is just that this rationality is based on a different set of fundamental presumptions than in the West, which determine what to do and what not to do. From the point of view of the interests of the empire, which is dying for objective reasons, Putin does everything rationally. But Western politicians are panicked to recognise Russia as a dying empire for objective reasons. And this is precisely the problem of their irrationality, not Russia's.

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About the author. Oleksiy Panych, philosopher, member of the Ukrainian Centre of PEN International, blogger.

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