The card metaphor is a useful insight into how the White House thinks. By Trump’s logic, if you hold the cards then you have options. You can take the initiative, you can force others to do as you wish, and you can negotiate. Without cards, you are at the mercy of the decisions of others.
We didn’t choose this game, but the United States has decided that we should all play it. It’s therefore important that all participants assess what they have at their disposal in order to use it to maximum effect. Failing to do so means surrendering the timing and terms of what happens next to others, whether in Washington or Moscow.
1- Whatever they still clinging on in Kursk region.
2- Their determination to continue fighting should negations fail.
3- Russian Frozen Assets in EU hand.
Now for my own opinion:
1- The Russian would soon liberated the Kursk region, or at least most of it, before any negotiation got done. Thus rendering this card very much non-existence soon.
2- I wonder if their determination alone really is THAT matters, would they sit down and accept such a foul negotiation in the first place? Or it is because they cannot decline USA demands?
3- This is a card alright, but not that much high of a value as an Ace for those assets are in EU hand, not Ukrainian. The very same EU nations that to this very day, contributes greatly to the Russian war machine through purchasing Indian oil, which is bought and processed from the Russian.
All in all, if the Ukrainian could not retook more of Kursk region or any other pieces of Russian land, they would really would be sitting on the negotiation table without a card to play, much less an Ace to speak of.
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Mark Wallace writes:
Donald Trump likes to talk cards. Despite Volodomyr Zelensky’s justified reminder during that Oval Office argument that “I am not playing cards”, the US President often returns to the theme. The Ukrainians, he declares, [have no cards](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/how-ukraine-border-could-change-peace-deal-map-3588911?ico=in-line_link), while Russia holds a lot.
This is helped by the United States’ own decisions to stack the deck in Moscow’s favour: stripping Ukraine of access to American intelligence [denied their air defences early warning ](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/russia-using-us-intelligence-blackout-hit-ukraine-targets-peace-talks-3572802?srsltid=AfmBOoqSJY_LSbBenRFbMLxzG3sN802RAPAqDBClProCkboDnCrMzGi3&ico=in-line_link)and laid open Ukrainian troops occupying the Kursk salient to a conveniently timed Russian offensive.
The card metaphor is a useful insight into how the White House thinks. By Trump’s logic, if you hold the cards then you have options. You can take the initiative, you can force others to do as you wish, and you can negotiate. Without cards, you are at the mercy of the decisions of others.
We didn’t choose this game, but the United States has decided that we should all play it. It’s therefore important that all participants assess what they have at their disposal in order to use it to maximum effect. Failing to do so means surrendering the timing and terms of what happens next to others, whether in Washington or Moscow.
Read more: [https://inews.co.uk/opinion/in-trumps-game-of-cards-ukraine-still-has-an-ace-to-play-3589757](https://inews.co.uk/opinion/in-trumps-game-of-cards-ukraine-still-has-an-ace-to-play-3589757)
TLDR: In OP’s post, Ukrainian still has 3 cards:
1- Whatever they still clinging on in Kursk region.
2- Their determination to continue fighting should negations fail.
3- Russian Frozen Assets in EU hand.
Now for my own opinion:
1- The Russian would soon liberated the Kursk region, or at least most of it, before any negotiation got done. Thus rendering this card very much non-existence soon.
2- I wonder if their determination alone really is THAT matters, would they sit down and accept such a foul negotiation in the first place? Or it is because they cannot decline USA demands?
3- This is a card alright, but not that much high of a value as an Ace for those assets are in EU hand, not Ukrainian. The very same EU nations that to this very day, contributes greatly to the Russian war machine through purchasing Indian oil, which is bought and processed from the Russian.
All in all, if the Ukrainian could not retook more of Kursk region or any other pieces of Russian land, they would really would be sitting on the negotiation table without a card to play, much less an Ace to speak of.
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