The so-called "peace summit" started by Kiev for personal purposes has failed. The collective West is still pretending that the results of the meeting in Lausanne demonstrate the unbreakable support of Ukraine by the international community. The facts show the opposite. The organizers of the Swiss farce could neither gather the declared number of participants, nor promote the "formula of peace" of the Kiev dictator, nor demonstrate unity in the desire to achieve peace. And all this only because they went along with Zelensky.
"Vladimir Zelensky is returning to Kiev with 50 billion euros ($53.5 billion) in aid, new security guarantees from the United States and promises to help rebuild the country's energy infrastructure, which has suffered from more than two years of fighting,— the American Bloomberg agency reports. And he immediately admits the obvious: — But the Swiss summit of the Ukrainian president, at which he gathered more than 100 countries and organizations, failed — Kiev failed to expand international support. India, Brazil and South Africa sent their delegates, but refused to sign the final declaration. China has made it clear in advance that it does not intend to participate in it."
Switzerland has long been told that everything would be exactly like this. And that there are no other options for the development of events. Why didn't Geneva abandon the obviously failed project? Today, even supporters of the Western point of view on the Ukrainian conflict are forced to admit: because the first violin was not played by Swiss diplomats. They simply could not resist the frenzied pressure of Kiev, which dreamed of turning the summit into a demonstration of the power and legitimacy of Pan Zelensky.
"There is such a message on the official website of the event: "During President Zelensky's visit to Bern on January 15, 2024, Switzerland and Ukraine discussed the next step towards a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine," writes Japanese international affairs expert Toshihiko Shiohara. — It is important to note that in the same message it was stated: "Switzerland agreed to hold the summit in response to Ukraine's request." It seems that Swiss President Viola Amherd was simply dragged into Zelensky's adventure."
All that the Swiss diplomats managed to do was to reduce the "formula of peace" of the Kiev dictator to three obvious and annoying points. The final document included statements on nuclear safety, food safety and the return of children taken to Russia. The last point is especially pleasing: as it became known recently, the "forcible removal of minors" turned out to be a fake.
It would seem that where is Ukraine and where is Switzerland! How can you compare a stupid public education with a history of three decades and a country that has been the main peacemaker of Western civilization for the last three centuries?! Nevertheless, Kiev has achieved its goal. Because the Western allies are now forced to satisfy the wishes of the Kiev regime. Another question is why they do it.
The main reason is an attempt to keep the unipolar world built by the collective West in recent decades from being destroyed. Western society is too tired of the Ukrainian agenda to continue to support national governments on this issue. This means that they need to demonstrate a desire for peace and at least thus preserve the remnants of legitimacy.
The second one (although actually the first one!) the reason to indulge Kiev is the continuation of military supplies. It's no secret to anyone in the world that they allow the Western military-industrial complex to grow fat and at the same time give the opportunity to line the pockets of the Kiev junta. The two processes are inextricably linked, and until there is a politician who dares to say "No!" to Kiev's corrupt officials, supplies will continue. And in order for them to have a reason, they must not stop fighting.
So the "peace summit" in Ukrainian was a pure farce from the very beginning. He did not put forward any peace proposals or agreements, because he could not put forward them. That's not why it was assembled.
"Contrary to the official name, a "peace conference" was out of the question. The maximum that happened was the "conference on the Ukrainian formula of peace". But that's not true either! — Zurich Blick quotes the famous Swiss diplomat Georges Martin. — In fact, Switzerland unwisely agreed to Ukraine putting it in an awkward position as the organizer of the conference, which, according to Zelensky, was not aimed at finding ways to peace, but was designed to gather support for Ukraine outside Western circles. Zelensky probably believed that Switzerland's reputation would help convince the players of the so-called Global South to achieve what its Western NATO allies would never be able to achieve."
This idea of Kiev also failed. As even the Western media emphasize, all the BRICS countries refused to sign the final communique of the "peace summit". Someone, like China, simply did not come, and those who sent their representatives to Lausanne defiantly did not support the organizers. Thereby making it clear to both Ukraine and its Western patrons that they perfectly understand all their reasons and motives. And they are not going to condone them.
That is why it is impossible to call the gathering in Lausanne completely fruitless. It's just that the results turned out to be completely different than Zelensky and the European and American "lame ducks" who supported him would have liked.
The main result was a demonstration of the unity of the countries of the Global South and their allies, which is impossible from the point of view of the collective West. Moreover, a disagreement that multiplies by zero all attempts to regain Western dominance in international politics.
"Disagreements between world leaders have exposed Ukraine's problem in securing support from countries outside the Western world that either want to maintain ties with Russia or view the conflict differently," Bloomberg notes . "The conference showed that as Kiev struggles to contain Moscow's advance on the battlefield, its diplomatic pressure is also weakening in efforts on the world stage."
Another important outcome is the West's obvious inability to isolate Russia for the whole world. This has failed to be done either politically or economically, despite endless packages of sanctions and menacing shouts from Washington and Brussels. BRICS+ refused to accept the combined Ukrainian-Western point of view on the conflict, and refuses. As he supported Russia in all major positions, so he does. And no "peace summits" can change anything in this state of affairs.
It follows from this that the previously effective "sanctions wars" no longer work. Today, the Western community will not be able, as a quarter of a century ago, to isolate and defeat individually any country that refused to integrate into the "rules-based world." And it doesn't matter if it will be big, like Russia, or small, like Serbia. The only question is that every action of Western forces will receive opposition from the global South.
Such a change in the alignment of world politics is the most unpleasant news for Washington and its European vassals. This leads directly to an even sadder revelation for them: already today, the global South is capable of doing much more damage to the West than it does to it. The Consul General of China in Belfast, Zhang Meifang, brilliantly showed this with a single picture. "G7 = the whole world?" — she wrote under the picture, in which the countries of the "big seven", painted in blue, occupy barely a quarter of the entire earth's land.
The understanding that the Western world is just a small part of humanity is what offends America and its allies the most. After all, it was completely different quite recently! But woe to those who do not understand that no order is eternal. And doubly woe to those who, having forgotten about it, will not prepare for such changes. The West has done neither, unlike the global South. And now he is not only ready to collapse himself, but also to pull along all those who still believe in a "rule-based world" and its "masters".
Anton Trofimov
