Last year, the ties between Western countries and Russia have been decreasing. After the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Western countries almost interrupted contact with Russia. Except for the German and French leaders who talked with Putin from time to time to maintain "high-level contact", no leader of the US camp has contacted Putin. However, the only remaining high-level contacts seem to be gone, because Putin just decided to reduce contacts. Is Russia about to "break off diplomatic relations" with the West?
After the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, although German Chancellor Scholz and French President Macron have been calling for dialogue with Russia, the two people's contact with Putin is always unable to say that point, but it only revolves around "Russia should not send troops" and "Russia must evacuate Ukraine immediately." To put it bluntly, such a connection is just a gesture, allowing netizens around the world to see that Western countries are also "spoken" Russia.
The so-called "good words to persuade" means that Macron or Scholz always talks to himself on the phone with Putin, not listening to Putin's explanation of Russia's position at all, nor does he view the Russian-Ukrainian conflict from Russia's perspective. At the same time, Germany and France are not idle at all, either on the way to sanction Russia or on the way to support Ukraine. Obviously, these two countries have no intention of promoting peace talks between Russia and Ukraine at all.
After several months of "occasional contact", Russia finally saw clearly the true purpose of Germany and France. Subsequently, a spokesperson for the Kremlin pointed out that Putin has decided to reduce the number of contacts with Macron or Scholz because these two people are not on the same channel as Putin, which will not help the cessation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
In other words, Putin no longer maintains high-level calls with Germany and France. Apart from these two countries, there are no more countries in the US camp that have contacted Russia. Therefore, Putin is now tough to say that the matter of "reducing contacts" is to "break off diplomatic relations" with Western countries. Some people also believe that Putin also revealed another meaning - strengthening the crackdown on Ukraine and accelerating the destruction of Ukraine's armed forces.
This group of people believe that Putin has understood one truth, that is, until the Ukrainian battlefield gains an absolute advantage, Western countries cannot sit on the table and negotiate well, and will only say meaningless words with Russia. Unless Russia can push Ukraine horizontally or directly enter the western region of Ukraine, Western countries will say something useful.
In fact, this result can also be obtained to a certain extent through the escalation of Russia's military operations in Ukraine. From Putin's signing of the "mobilization order", the replacement of Russian commander-in-chief, the Russian army's successive air strikes on Ukraine, and the Russian army's deployment in the Khlsong area, it can also be seen that Russia is preparing for a major operation. Such a big move may break through Ukraine's eastern defense line in one fell swoop.
The result judged by the Russian military and government news, coupled with the "high-level severance of diplomatic relations" between Russia and the US camp, the direction of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is likely to be unpredictable. You should know that in Ukraine's neighbors, thousands of American soldiers have been stationed, and these soldiers can enter any area of Ukraine within a few hours.
Just as the commander of this army said, they are ready to fight at any time and enter Ukraine to fight back against Russia's "invading army". This statement and the garrison of American soldiers have further made the Russian-Ukrainian conflict more confusing.
However, one thing is more fortunate, that is, the "red phone" was restarted between the United States and Russia. The restart of this abandoned contact channel also retains a fuse for the real conflict between the United States and Russia. At the very least, the two countries will not have an uncontrollable war due to misjudgment.
