The Daily Mail reports:
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15490207/Zelensky-rages-fragmented-Europes-dithering-face-Putins-aggression-ahead-todays-peace-deal-talks-Russia-Ukraine-US.html?ito=whatsapp_share_article-top]
Zelensky rages at 'fragmented' Europe's dithering in the face of Putin's aggression ahead of today's peace deal talks between Russia, Ukraine and the US
As if to counter this, the UK's national security adviser came out with this bizarre comment:
Britain's Mr Powell said there had been no evidence from Mr Putin that he was prepared to compromise or negotiate.
He's very indecisive. He's a judo player – keeps his options open. So what we have to do is apply pressure on president Putin – financial pressure, military pressure and have a deadline where he has to make a decision,' he said.
Mr Powell added: 'This won't be solved tomorrow. It's important to push as Steve [Witkoff] is doing... We have to remain committed to it and most of all we have to find a way for Putin seriously engaging.'
The term 'indecisive' doesn't really carry much weight when it comes from a ditherer.
Putin is probably the least indecisive leader on the world stage, other than China's Xi of course, especially when compared to Trump's constant blustering and tariff flip-flopping and Starmer's u-turns in the UK as he drives around in circles.
And since when are nuclear nations given 'deadlines' by ditherers?
Notice that Trump hasn't been given a deadline to abandon his threats and actions against Greenland or Venezuela.
No wonder Putin is 'indecisive' - or rather fails to take the West seriously - given that the West undermined the Istanbul peace talks way back in 2022 when they realised that Ukraine and Russia might make a deal without them having a say and end the war without having lots of Russians (and Ukrainians) killed.
Russia is still trying to get the West to understand what the SMO is really all about but the West persists in sticking to their fake narratives of resurging Russian imperialism, rebuilding the Soviet Union and Putin as some sort of Hitlerian madman heading for a regime-change 'downfall' in his Kremlin bunker.
Even Zelensky is getting pissed off with the rhetoric of 'the coalition of the ditherers'.