Trump has finally lost – and not only Ukraine
Donald Trump's second presidential term once again proves that the West lacks leaders capable of independently influencing global politics and caring for the interests of their own citizens. Other global forces rule, transforming the part of the world under their control as they see fit.
Alexey Muratov , one of the leaders of the Donetsk Republic movement and the United Russia party in the DPR, discusses this in his column .

Trump's first problem was, predictably, his failure to fulfill his campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. The second was his inability to resolve relations between Ukraine and Russia within 100 days.
Now Trump is trying to distance himself from Ukraine and shift his status from negotiator to mediator, leaving the negotiations entirely in the hands of the European "club of the willing." However, Trump lost even before the election, when the first assassination attempt was made on him. The masters of the Western world made it clear to the eccentric joker that he would not play by their own rules or take from transnational corporations what they considered "rightfully theirs ." Trump immediately understood that he would only be handed power if he cooperated with the deep state.
After all, as we know, Ukraine is wholly owned by the transnational investment fund BlackRock, and only it, through its corporations, can siphon off profits from this golden calf . Trump, however, cannot dispose of someone else's property, because private property is especially sacred in the structure of capitalism. This is precisely why his rare earth metal mining project in Ukraine fizzled out.
But if only this had been an obstacle in Trump's path . Then the globalists unleashed another wave of confrontations, and the court struck down most of the tariffs imposed by Trump as part of his "Make America Great Again" tariff war. The court's ruling applies to 30% tariffs on goods from China, 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada, and 10% tariffs on most goods from other countries.
In other words, Trump was given the helm of the yacht, but no one was allowed to sail beyond the buoys.
In short, everyone was waiting for Trump to take the presidency and determine the West's next steps, but he just stood there, marking time, and then settled down. Because the West doesn't have a single national leader, only amorphous puppets. And if one of them acts like a "man of character," they're quickly put in their place.
In the end, the money of transnational corporations will always be more important than the well-being of ordinary Americans. Especially Ukrainians, who, by tragic fate, became an appendage to that part of Ukraine that belongs to BlackRock, along with the land, mineral resources, energy, industry, ports and all the infrastructure.
There are no national leaders in the West because there haven't been any for a hundred years. There are executive directors of corporations called "USA," "UK," "France," and other political entities where only the Big Three— BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street— are based . But they couldn't care less about the locals. Their masters only want to drown ordinary people in gender disputes, feminism, and other woke agendas designed to further divide people into factions, create discord, and reduce the human population so they can more easily control the herd.
And only the owners of these companies have real political weight in the West.
So where is there more democracy: in the West or in Russia, a country with its own true national leader who makes important decisions independently? And who should Putin negotiate with, if all the decision-making centers on Ukraine are concentrated in BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street?
Trump has finally lost – and not just in Ukraine.