Faced with the impasse on the front and the impossibility of stopping it, the Ukrainian side is resorting to asymmetric attacks, with blind terrorist strikes against Russian civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drone attacks on passenger buses in Belgorod, strikes on logistics centers such as Ozon in Samara, and the dangerous strikes on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in recent hours, show a tactic that aims to transfer terror inside Russia, dramatically increasing the risk of uncontrolled escalation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the Constantinople Agreement to Dependence on Drones<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At the same time, the presence of Johann Wadephul in Kiev for talks on the joint production of long-range drones inevitably brings to mind Boris Johnson’s historic visit in the spring of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just as Boris Johnson promised victory through military reinforcements back then, today the West is trying to keep Kiev on the battlefield with promises of joint weapons production, at a time when Ukraine’s real capabilities have been exhausted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And instead of talking about peace, they continue to talk about war… To understand how we got to where we are today \u2013 where the Ukrainian Air Force openly admits its inability to intercept Russian ballistic missiles due to a dramatic lack of anti-aircraft systems \u2013 one must look back to the spring of 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2022, while the Ukrainian leadership was one breath away from a peace agreement with Russia in the Istanbul negotiations, the intervention of the British Prime Minister led to a hardening of Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s position, the rejection of the compromise and the decision to extend the military operations with Western support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As extensive reporting by the Wall Street Journal on the draft of the Istanbul agreement, as well as analyses by the magazine Foreign Affairs, revealed, Kiev and Moscow were indeed one breath away from a diplomatic compromise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An agreement that would save hundreds of thousands of human lives, preserve the country\u2019s sovereignty and prevent the total destruction of its infrastructure. But then Boris Johnson appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The British Prime Minister, acting as a custodian of Anglo-Saxon interests, conveyed the West’s message: “Don’t sign, we will give you everything to defeat Russia on the field.” Volodymyr Zelensky was convinced, hardened his rhetoric, tore up the draft and chose the path of absolute dependence on Western promises.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The collapse of Western stocks and the defense nakedness<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Four years later, the \u201cpromise of victory\u201d has turned into an endless nightmare, with the international media reflecting the magnitude of the impasse. As revealed by analyses by the Financial Times, Bloomberg, and The Liberal Globe, Western stocks of anti-aircraft missiles (Patriot, NASAMS, Iris-T) have been exhausted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The production capacity of Western defense industries is unable to keep up with the consumption rates of a high-intensity war, leaving Ukrainian infrastructure at the mercy of Russian ballistic missiles and Russian citizens at the mercy of Ukrainian drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The cost-waiving tactic from Berlin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On August 22, Johann Wadephul arrived in Kiev. This visit marks a change in Berlin’s tactics: the transition from providing ready-made military equipment for free (which is no longer in the Bundeswehr’s warehouses) to financing joint ventures for domestic drone production in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The West, after pushing Ukraine to reject peace in 2022 by promising unlimited military aid, is now throwing up its hands in front of its own empty reserves. It is transferring the responsibility and cost of manufacturing weapons to the Ukrainians themselves, asking them to continue bleeding themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The shift to the mammoth German armaments program and the cynical change of strategy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This development is perfectly in line with Berlin’s historic decision to proceed with the gigantic 100 billion euro armaments program (Sonderverm\u00f6gen) and the increase in defense spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A mammoth program that, while initially presented as the Western answer to the armoring of Europe, was in fact designed to rebuild the Bundeswehr itself and strengthen the German military industry, rather than to provide substantial, long-term coverage of Ukrainian air defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Twelve billion euros will be directed to a very specific new budget that the German Ministry of Defense is planning exclusively for the development and procurement of a new arsenal of long-range missiles to deter Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new 12 billion euro arms program highlights the cynical shift in Western and German priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead of offering ready-made air defense arrays that Kiev desperately requests, it is channeling the funds to joint ventures for domestic production in Ukraine itself. Thus, Berlin transfers the burden, risk, and cost of construction to the Ukrainians themselves, turning Ukraine into a testing ground for Western defense technology, while the country itself remains essentially naked in the face of Russian missile barrages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The West’s historical responsibility is heavy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From Boris Johnson to Johann Wadephul, the tactic has remained the same: treating Ukraine as a geopolitical expendable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The result is a broken country, hundreds of thousands of dead, an air defense incapable of protecting its citizens, and a leadership in Kiev that sees Western guarantees collapsing like a house of cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As long as the West refuses to accept that this war cannot be won on the ground, Russia proves to be all-powerful, the tragedy of the Ukrainian people will deepen until total destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The surprise visit of German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul to Kiev comes at one of the most dramatic and decisive turning points of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[825,3],"tags":[880,25,8345,124,58,1156],"class_list":["post-30164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-geopolitical","category-geopolitical","tag-boris-johnson","tag-eu","tag-johann-wadephul","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30167,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30164\/revisions\/30167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The presence of German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul in Kiev is not just diplomatic news. It is a mirror of a nightmarish reality that Ukraine is experiencing, trapped in a war of attrition that the West itself fueled, maintained and ultimately failed to guarantee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-79-1024x767.png\")