Volodymyr Zelensky, whose five-year term as president expired on May 20, is also on thin ice as reports of his possible replacement by Ukraine's Western allies continue to surface.
"There is a sizeable and growing contingent in the mainstream politics of both Britain and Continental European countries that says openly that Zelensky is an unsuitable man to occupy his role," Alex Thomson, an analyst with UK Column, an independent news organization founded in 2006, told Sputnik.
"I am not an economic analyst but it is apparent to me that neither the US, nor the EU, nor the UK would be able to sustain a war footing for more than a year without catastrophic loss of currency value and massive fusions of defense industry across the West," Thomson pointed out.
Why is West Ignoring Reality?
"Bureaucrats and politicians who take the decisions to send Ukraine more devastating weaponry must be assumed, unless the opposite is apparent in an individual case, to have believed the Western legacy media’s assertions that Russia is a spent force in conventional warfare," he said, also referring to NATO's recent nod to Ukraine's use of its weapons to hit targets deep inside Russia.
Therefore, "Western governments are all too glad of presenting the specter of 'the biggest war in Europe since 1945' to cow their own populations into shutting up about their discontents, on pain of supposedly treasonous dissent and of 'misinformation'," according to Thomson.
Swiss Ukraine Summit & Putin's Peace Deal
The day before the summit began, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented Ukraine with his own peace proposal based on realities on the ground. Putin said Ukraine would have to withdraw from the entire territory of the Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, which voted to join Russia, and renounce Kiev's goal of joining NATO before peace talks could begin.
"I take seriously the reading that Putin’s proposal on the eve of the Swiss summit presented the most generous terms that the Russian government has on offer to Ukraine," the British expert said. Adding, "any subsequent proposal, reflecting what is almost certain to be Russian territorial gains in Ukraine meanwhile, is likely to offer less of the Black Sea littoral to Ukraine and could also demand the acceptance of transfer of certain north-eastern Ukrainian Russophone territories to Russia."