With a Trump victory, Putin is now on the verge of doing in Ukraine as he wishes.

The war between Putin and Ukraine has become globalised.

As Ron Popeski, Yuliia Dysa, Oleksandr Kozhukhar, and Jihoon Lee report,

" President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that the first battles between the Ukrainian military and North Korean troops "open a new page in instability in the world" after his defence minister said a "small engagement" had taken place.
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"The first battles with North Korean soldiers open a new page of instability in the world," [Zelensky] said.

He said that Ukraine, acting with the rest of the world, had to "do everything so that this Russian step to expand the war with real escalation fails." (Reuters: 5 November 2024) (my emphasis) 

And as Martin Fornusek (right) reports,

"Beijing's "massive provision" of dual-use goods, as well as diplomatic and economic support, allow Russia to continue its war against Ukraine, the chief of Australia's intelligence agency said on Nov. 6, Reuters reported.

Beijing's support is "killing innocent Ukrainians just as surely as if they were providing artillery ammunition and missiles," Andrew Shearer, the chief of the Office of National Intelligence, said at a conference in Canberra." (The Kyiv Independent: 6 November 2024) (my emphasis)

More ominous, Oleksandr V Danylyuk (left) exlains that,

"Despite the reluctance of Western leaders and societies to recognise it, a global war, the goal of which is to destroy the existing international system and build a new one, is already underway, and even the complete capture of Ukraine by Russia will not stop it.
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Putin's statements that Russia has no interests west of Ukrainian borders are reminiscent of Hitler's famous words before the invasion of Poland that France had nothing to fear, as Germany's borders in the west were forever delineated by the fortifications of the German Western Wall." (RUSI: 5 November 2024) (my emphasis)

As also reported by Richard Thomas (right),

"Whether Republican Presidential Donald Trump returns to the office he occupied from 2017 to 2021, or Kamala Harris succeeds the outgoing President Joe Biden on the Democrat ticket, the impact on defence and foreign policy will be significant, for different reasons.

For Trump, it will be a return to strong-man politics and a return to isolationism and protectionism, with the biggest loser likely to be Ukraine as US support for Kyiv, certainly in its current scale, will come to a halt.

Harris has committed to sustaining support for Ukraine as it battles Russia, although 2024 has offered little solace for Ukrainian forces that find themselves, for the most part, on the back foot." (Airforce Technology: 5 November 2024) (my emphasis)

And as the US election nears its end, we now find that Donald Trump has already declared victory over Kamala Harris as he only requires 4 MORE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES, as of now, to re-enter the White House as the next US president.

Putin must be cock-a-hoop in his bunker since he is on the verge of being given 'carte blanche' to do with Ukraine 'as he wishes'.

As Jonathan Este (left) pointed out,

"After months of gamesmanship and speculation, JD Vance has emerged as Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate and the heir apparent to the America First movement.

With less than two years in Congress under his belt, the first-term senator from Ohio has very little experience in politics, let alone conducting foreign policy.
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Just after Russia’s invasion in February 2022, in fact, Vance bluntly declared, 

"I gotta be honest with you, I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another." (The Conversation: 16 July 2024)

The tectonic shifts on the brink of  'globally' enveloping the international political world has now taken centre stage in the governments of the world.

The political axis of Putin (Russia), Kim Jon Un (North Korea), Xi Jinping (China), and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Iran),  in particular,  are now emboldened in carrying forward their political aims by Donald Trump being within a hair's breadth of occupying the White House.

And as Zelensky has said, "The first battles with North Korean soldiers open a new page of instability in the world."

UPDATE : 6 November 2024  GMT 14:41  

As reported by Veronika Melkozerova (left), in light of the victory of Trump in winning the 2024 US presidential election,

"Ukrainians reacted with a mix of trepidation and grim resolve to the news that Donald Trump will likely be reelected United States president, after he vowed to “stop wars” in a victorious speech Wednesday morning.
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Trump’s Republican Party blocked aid to Ukraine for more than nine months from October 2023 to April 2024, forcing Kyiv to deplete its wartime budget and leading to the loss of some of its most capable fighters. The mood in Kyiv on Wednesday was grim but resolved." (Politico: 6 November 2024) (my emphasis)

 

 

 

 

(to be continued)