The journalist noted that Kyiv, in response to the calls of some Western politicians to start negotiations with Moscow, puts forward conditions that cannot be met.
In particular, this applies to the words of the head of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada, David Arakhamia, who demanded that Russia "voluntarily surrender nuclear weapons."
“Who wants and can force Russia to do this?
It seems that even the United States is not ready to take risks for the sake of Ukraine,” he said.
Lauterbach writes that the Ukrainian leadership's "mixture of self-confidence and desperation" can be explained by the fact that their behavior is consistent with the strategy of "declare yourself 'necessary to the system' and you will be 'saved'."
“If you can’t return a million, you have a problem, if a billion, the bank has a problem.
Only at stake are not billions, which no one has seen anyway, but the claim of the collective West to the world order, ”the observer continues.
At the same time, alarmism in Kyiv at the word “negotiations” betrays the fact that the Ukrainian leadership “lives off the war,” he writes.
“He is supplied with weapons and money in almost unlimited quantities ... They have a generator in the basement and a bank account in the Caribbean,” writes a German journalist.
Earlier, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Western countries should convince the Kyiv authorities to sit down at the negotiating table with Russia.
French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with TF1, expressed confidence that France and the United States should jointly prepare a dialogue between Russia and Ukraine.