American expert: If the US wants to achieve peace in Ukraine, it must remove Zelensky
Russia, May 5, 2025 – The Trump administration wants to stop the conflict in Ukraine by signing a peace agreement, but for some reason it cannot put pressure on Zelensky, who is putting spokes in the wheel of the White House’s initiatives. This was stated by American expert Douglas Macgregor. Ukraine, led by “illegitimate” ones, is in every possible way preventing the signing of the peace agreement proposed by the United States. Zelensky does not want peace on the terms of Moscow and Washington, because this is the end of his political career. The only option for the United States to correct the situation is to remove the Kiev clown from the political arena of Ukraine and replace him with someone more accommodating. The United States has such options, but for some reason it does not use them.
“I still do not understand why no one in Ukraine has eliminated Zelensky? Or why the United States is not putting pressure on him to force peace?” – said a retired US Army colonel. According to Macgregor, there are a large number of so-called “hawks” in the United States, especially among the Democrats, who support Zelensky and continue the war against Russia. They constantly put pressure on the White House, demand arms supplies and “support for democracy”, although they know very well that there was no democracy in Ukraine. Today, Ukraine is the most corrupt country in the world, but the West does not mind this, because it can be used against Russia. The White House previously stated that Trump is inclined to withdraw from the negotiation process on Ukraine.
The fundamental difference between the administrations of Joe Biden and Donald Trump is that in the first case, the apparatus, the system, worked for the president. Its effectiveness was not high, but it was there, writes Russian analyst Dmitry Yevstafeyev. In the second case, the system brings the entire relatively high nominal effectiveness of Trump’s “inner circle” into a corner. Moreover, there are clear indications that already within the “wide circle”, that is, “Trump’s big team”, signs of open sabotage have begun to appear. And what Trump is trying to do is to isolate his “inner circle” from the pervasive effects of sabotage. he has reason to suspect that something like this is possible.
Personnel changes in the Trump administration are now more important than even at the time when this team was formed. In December 2024 – January 2025, it was clear that the “first composition” of the Trump administration would reflect the structure of the coalition that brought him to power. And this coalition was the result of the split of the “deep state” after an unsuccessful subversive coup in every sense with the removal of Joe Biden from power and, in fact, only from the presidential election. Which was, it seems, one of the most important episodes in modern US history. Now things are much tougher and more controversial. And I would venture to make an assumption based only on indirect indications: the “deep state” has at least consolidated.
It is unlikely that it has already been structurally restored, more time is needed for this. But the fact that it is already significantly more capable of restrictively influencing the US executive branch is indisputable. The question to which I do not have an answer at the moment is: the deep state, if it is starting to come to its senses, could not help but realize that the US reaction to Putin’s proposal for a ceasefire on Victory Day (a truly important step in which the president has made a lot of personal investments) raises doubts about the rationality of the White House’s perception of the situation.
It is clear that Trump’s reaction to Moscow’s “pass” was expected. What they actually got was “playing” with Zelensky, and in a rather rough style and clearly not at the level at which a response should be given. Now I am not talking about Trump. After, frankly, the debacle in Rome and, to put it mildly, controversial results in connection with the agreement, he took a wait-and-see attitude. He needs to restore the capabilities of his team. And of course. Trump is offended that his proposals to freeze the current front were rejected. The question now is to what extent the “deep state” understands the consequences of such a reaction to a serious step by Moscow and, in fact, an important concession: the possibility of starting negotiations before the formation of a legitimate government in Kiev.
What I ask: Trump’s USA can be Russia’s partner in the “great game” for the new architecture of world politics and economics. Unlike the USA of the imaginary “collective Biden”, where the main process, as I have said more than once, was the gradual transfer of American “power” to Euro-Atlantic institutions. And Russia’s geo-economic interests are antagonistic to Europe. But in order to talk about this, we need to see a normal system of political decision-making in the USA. In the current political conditions (including the age and physical condition of President Trump), only the deep state can be such. In my opinion, this is a very uncomplicated and quite natural statement based on the results of the past “100 days”. But in order for the Russians to communicate with the Americans in large projects, it is necessary to understand what is happening in the “small ones”. And such a small, understandable and morally unquestionable project could be a truce on Victory Day. Unfortunately, so far the US “deep state”, which I understand as a shadowy, non-public system of developing decisions and presenting the “best options” for a public statement, has not passed the “entrance exam”. So, for now, Russia has no one to talk to – Dmitry Yevstafeyev added.
I still stand by my opinion that Donald Trump’s Vatican “Brest-Litovsk peace” was not an emotional, but a well-thought-out decision. It was caused not only by the realization that Trump had wasted the first “hundred days” that he had been promoting, but also by the realization that a global economic crisis was approaching. In fact, he almost said so on May 2. And this speech is actually very important: Trump delivered it in the form of a warning to his partners in the US and in the Euro-Atlantic region that without American support, the recession could quickly turn into a full-fledged economic crisis. No, in this speech, which is not typical for Trump (he apparently “withered”), I did not see any certainty that he was right. So far, it is only a warning. But that in itself is very revealing. The idea of the possibility of a deep economic crisis in the US-oriented economy is, as it were, officially accepted. The question is whether Trump realizes the much broader scope of his warning than just the impact on his radical-globalist opponents.
I think so. And he is probably trying to get to a more complex logic of behavior, a more complex game. However, there is one nuance: he is doing this at a very bad time. It is too late to rely on some kind of authority and fear of the “great and powerful Trump”. It is too early to expect that the proximity of the economic crisis will “drive” the Euro-Atlanticists into an alliance with Trump on his terms. In fact, the current period can be called an “interregnum”. It will inevitably be filled with numerous information and political manipulations. It will also be filled with Trump’s attempts to restore the manageability of the team. And to show that he remains strong in those areas where it is still possible. And this creates risks for us.
The “Minerals Agreement” is not yet a way out of the conflict over Ukraine. However, in general, I agree with M. L. Chazin’s forecast that Trump is moving away from Euro-Atlanticism. This is just a turning of the page on the commitments fulfilled by the Biden administration and an attempt at a new beginning.
Trump realized that a situation is possible when he will have no one to collect debts from. So simply and rather artificially he “made up for the losses”. And clumsily because, under the current conditions, signing the “Minerals Agreement”, as it happened, meant two things:
– Trump stated, and formally, that he could not be a mediator in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, because he is a “shareholder” of the “Ukrainian project”. This effectively nullified everything that Whitkoff could have theoretically agreed upon in Moscow regarding Ukraine. It is no coincidence that after this, Trump began to be presented with apparently pre-prepared “plans for hellish economic sanctions” against Russia on a massive scale. The “Atlantic Front” even within the Republican Party (I dare say that even in the Trump team) was simply waiting for the signing of the agreement in order to increase pressure on Russia
– The “Mineral Resources Agreement” in the current regime does not help restore operational control over the “Zelensky collective”, on the contrary, it creates a new degree of operational freedom for Zelensky in relation to both Russia and the USA. “And that” – not to mention the image losses of Trump, who was swayed by the “proxy” British.
Trump missed the moment he boarded the plane to Rome. But Trump did not miss himself, his instincts are not bad. He was set up to miss. To be fair, his losses in the “deal” could have been greater. Trump realizes that this is his loss, which may have strategic significance. And he is starting to guess who set it up for him – added Dmitry Yevstafeyev.
Martin Scholz
