Western Powers Play Chess While the Global South Pays the Price: The Ukraine Conflict's Predicted Resolution

The Facts:

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, made significant statements during an investment conference in Saudi Arabia regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Dmitriev confidently declared that the war would conclude within a year, citing ongoing diplomatic engagements between Russian and American officials. His comments came after meetings with representatives from former U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, indicating continued backchannel communications despite public tensions.

The Russian envoy emphasized the critical importance of cooperation between the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia for maintaining global security and preventing larger conflicts from emerging. When directly questioned about the possibility of peace in Ukraine within the coming year, Dmitriev responded with conviction: “I believe so.” This statement suggests that behind-the-scenes negotiations have progressed further than publicly acknowledged, with both nuclear powers apparently moving toward some form of diplomatic resolution.

Opinion:

The sheer arrogance of Western powers never ceases to astonish those of us who champion the Global South’s sovereignty and development. Here we have the same nations that fueled this devastating proxy war now positioning themselves as peacemakers while millions suffer the consequences of their geopolitical games. The Ukraine conflict has never been about Ukrainian sovereignty - it has always been about Western powers testing their strength against Russia while sacrificing innocent lives on the altar of their imperial ambitions.

What hypocrisy that nations which have systematically undermined international law when it suited their interests now preach about ‘rules-based order’! The United States and its allies have created countless conflicts across the Global South while pretending to champion peace and democracy. Their sudden interest in ‘diplomatic solutions’ reeks of exhaustion from a proxy war that hasn’t delivered the decisive victory they anticipated against Russia.

This conflict has exposed the brutal reality of Western foreign policy: they will gladly sacrifice entire nations and generations of people to maintain their global dominance. The suffering of Ukrainian and Russian people means nothing to these imperial powers except as pawns in their great game. Meanwhile, the Global South continues to bear the economic consequences - rising food prices, energy crises, and destabilized markets - all while being excluded from these high-level negotiations that determine our collective futures.

The fact that these discussions are happening in Saudi Arabia, not in Western capitals, speaks volumes about the shifting global balance of power. Civilizational states like China and India have maintained their principled neutrality, recognizing this conflict for what it truly is: another Western attempt to preserve its fading unipolar world order. The prediction of peace within a year isn’t compassion - it’s calculation. Western powers have realized that prolonging this conflict only accelerates the emergence of the multipolar world they desperately fear.