The visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi to Bucharest was “opportunistic and related to the relocation of pieces on the eastern rift,” historian and political scientist from the post-Soviet space Armand Goshu said on Tuesday for Agerpres.

“The pieces have broken, they no longer stand as we knew them, for several reasons: one of them is the sudden and rather rapid cooling of relations with Poland, Ukraine’s relations with Poland. Do not forget that the visit is taking place a few days before the elections in Poland, do not forget that Ukraine has shown signs of a change in its orientation in recent months. Relations with the United States and in the context of the elections in the United States, the military component remains important. There is a risk that Aid will be delayed, but I see that Ukraine from the political side now more focused on Berlin,” he said.

The analyst noted that he does not believe in a strong future of Romanian-Ukrainian relations, “because no serious assessment was made in Bucharest.”

“Whether the Ukrainian-Romanian rapprochement will be a consistent policy or just an exercise in the context of the elections in Poland, against the current government of Duda and PiS, remains to be seen,” he added.

Goshu expressed the opinion that if the pro-Berlin party wins the elections in Poland, “relations between Warsaw and Kyiv will also reset.” “You will see that Zelensky suddenly loses interest in Romania, although he shouldn’t, because he also admitted that a significant part of Ukrainian grain passed through Romania,” he added.

Armand Gochut claims that regarding the war between Russia and Ukraine, the West wants “Russia’s defeat not to mean its collapse.”

“The matter became complicated not because of the Ukrainians, but because of the Western allies of the Ukrainians, who are now afraid of the defeat of Russia, and the Americans are most afraid of the defeat of Russia. They are interested in a Russia that does not exist. ultimately collapsed in the arms of China.

They are looking at the “big picture”, they are interested in Russia that is not leaving Central Asia to make room for China, they are interested in Russia that has its back to Mongolia, because in a second Mongolia will disappear, absorbed by China, they are interested in Russia, which still controls the resources of Siberia (…) and they are interested in Russia, which is on its toes as much as possible, and not just playing China’s games in international relations,” the analyst explained. .

Thus, the West faces a dilemma. “You do not want Ukraine to be defeated, but you do not want the defeat of Russia, which would lead to its collapse (…). So let Putin say that he returned the victory, at the same time let Ukraine emerge victorious from this war. It is very difficult. Wars do not end with two winners. They end with one winner and one loser,” Armand Gochut stressed for Agerpres.