Putin popping champange corks as Trump becomes US President.

In my blog entry of 2nd November I wrote that,

"As stated before, Putin is wishing for a Trump victory in the US presidential race. He stated so rather openly at his recent annual 3+ hour marathon session at Valdai.

"Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump behaved extravagantly during his campaign because he represented ordinary voters and wanted to get his message across. 

  

"He has chosen a method to get through to voters' hearts," Putin told foreign policy experts in southern Russia.

  

"He (Trump) behaves extravagantly of course, we see this, but I think there's a reason for this."(Reuters : Thu Oct 27, 2016)

Trump , but a few moments ago, and against all predictions, has won the race to become the next president of the US. 

 And one can imagine that the champange corks are now popping in the Kremlin, thanks to Trump's victory, and thanks to his direct links to Putin and the Kremlin.

 

This Trump win will now enable Putin to unleash his forces against Ukraine without having to concern himself about an American response or, for that matter, any credible response from the EU. 

We can now also expect that the economic millstone of US sanctions around Putin's neck will very soon be removed. 

 

Trump's election success will also add to the clamour of Putin's supporters in the EU that EU sanctions against Putin be dropped.

This is best expressed by EU president Martin Schulz, who said that,

"The election of Donald Trump as the United States' 45th president will make work "harder" for the European Union" (Tara Cunningham : The Telegraph Business : 9 November 2016)

But perhaps the most disturbing and rather ominous threat to Ukraine comes from Nigel Farage (below with Trump), who has put himself forward to be Donald Trump’s envoy in Brussels if Trump takes the White House, stating that,

 “Well I am hoping [that Trump will] be in need of a proper Eurosceptic ambassador in Brussels to the European Union.

“I would rather like that job.”

 He added, acknowledging the convention that ambassadors are representatives of their own country: "Being a foreigner will not disqualify me. As long as we can bring the EU down, it doesn't matter how we do it." (Cyrus Engineer : Express : Wed, Nov 9, 2016)

If this wish of Nigel Farage does, indeed, now come true, then the revolution of Maidan, and all that followed from it, will come to naught since the revolution was precipitated by the wish of the Ukrainian people to join the EU, the very EU that Farage wishes to destroy, thus fulfilling the wish of Putin himself.

The future of Ukraine now hangs by a very slender thread indeed.

(to be continued)