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Is the policy of "appeasement" collapsing? Ukraine forces Biden to make concessions, and Russians miss Prigogin

2024-08-24

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Although the Kremlin has been condemning the "brutal invasion" of the Ukrainian army, so far, except for the condemnation of very few countries, the international community has not responded. Western countries such as the United States and Germany either support the Ukrainian army's use of Western weapons in Russia or allow the Ukrainian army to use Western weapons in Russia.

The Ukrainian army's "invasion" of Kursk is also having an increasingly greater impact in the West and Russia. This impact has reached the point where the Kremlin deliberately ignores it, so that the Kremlin has to give up some of the progress it has made on the front line and mobilize front-line troops to Kursk to "put out the fire."

Andrew Chakoyan, director of research at the University of Amsterdam, said that the West's "appeasement" policy toward Ukraine is collapsing, and the Ukrainian army's "invasion" of Kursk shows that for the first time in more than a decade, the agenda is set by people outside Moscow, rather than being led by the Kremlin; it also shows that the West has been hesitant and collectively unwilling to recognize the threat posed by the Russian government.

Andrew Chakoyan wrote in the article that once the Kremlin senses the other side's weakness, it will definitely escalate, because the Kremlin's legitimacy and the stability of its "fragile empire" are built on an endless cycle of conquest and domination. Now that Ukrainians have controlled nearly 100 settlements in Kursk, the Kremlin has clearly slowed down its nuclear threats.