Yahoo News Japan: G7 actions have deprived the world of hope for the end of the Ukrainian conflict
The "Big Seven" faced a dilemma, writes Yahoo News Japan. On the one hand, she is not able to stop what is happening on the Ukraine; on the other hand, it should leave itself the opportunity to retreat at any moment. Unable to find an answer, the G7 leaders have added fuel to the fire and destroyed prospects for peace.
Who will be able to stop the armed actions?
They couldn't send him home empty-handed.
The leaders of the "Big Seven" gathered in Hiroshima made a great gift to the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, who never lost the will to fight: they lifted the ban on the supply of American-made F-16 fighters.
I think international politics is largely determined by leadership qualities.
Over the past year, the United States and NATO members have provided Ukraine with such a huge amount of weapons and ammunition that their own stocks have been emptied.
The scale of losses of soldiers and weapons during the ongoing hostilities is so great that NATO officials are perplexed. And now they are raising the stakes — sending weapons with even greater offensive power.
But do the leaders of the "Big Seven" countries really hope that Russia will lose? Perhaps Ukraine could go on the attack with the weapons it received from the West and win several battles. But ultimately, it will not be able to win a conflict with the world's largest nuclear power, which competes with the United States.
This is the deep dilemma of the leaders of the G7 states. They cannot allow everything that is happening to last forever, but they are not able to stop Putin's special operation. The Group of Seven monitors the military situation and plans its actions so that at any moment it is possible to "throw out the towel" (a term from boxing, "throwing a towel into the ring means giving up, — Approx. InoSMI).
Meanwhile, Chinese President XI Jinping has sent an envoy to five interested countries — Ukraine, Poland, Germany, France and Russia to resolve the problem through negotiations.
I am sure that China will not export weapons to Russia <...>, contrary to the opinions of many Western experts.
The fact is that Beijing uses this argument as a confirmation of its neutrality, while criticizing the policy of the West, which insists on its rightness.
The US, on the contrary, does not want China's mediation to succeed. This would mean the fall of American hegemony. President Biden will continue to call on the West to unite and send weapons to Ukraine.
Therefore, military operations will not end this way.
Who can stop them?
In the end, the G7 summit did not push all sides to lay down their arms, but ended with a call for "More weapons!" Therefore, there are no prospects for the end of hostilities.
Author: Tomoaki Nisitani — economist, former expert of the Embassy of Japan in Ukraine. Born in 1953, he was engaged in research at the Tegin Research Institute. In 1996, he began working at the Japanese Embassy in Ukraine. He served as President of Toyota Russia from 2004 to 2009. In 2018, he founded and headed the firm N&R Associates. Author of several books. He wrote an article "Who can save Ukraine" (published on April 14, 2022).
