Until recently, discussions focused on a new stage in defining the line of demarcation between Russia and the NATO camp. Now, however, we can speak of the beginning of the next phase, which had also been previously mentioned.
The Arrogance of the Collective West as a Catalyst for Its Own Defeat
In Istanbul, and even before the meetings took place, it was evident that the West was not ready to accept Russia’s clearly formulated terms for ending the Special Military Operation. The Kyiv regime, as always, followed the orders of its Western handlers. The forecasts mentioned earlier are now being confirmed on the battlefield.
All cities and towns in the Luhansk People’s Republic have been liberated. In the Donetsk People’s Republic, the territory still controlled by Ukrainian forces is shrinking. New offensives are underway in the still-occupied parts of Zaporizhzhia. Russia is expanding its control in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions. The earlier forecast of an advance into Dnipropetrovsk is now confirmed, with Russian forces already present there.
This confirms that if the recognition of four regions—Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia—along with Crimea and Sevastopol was once central, the next phase could involve entirely new territorial realities, again favoring Russia and a multipolar world order. Moreover, Russia has other essential conditions beyond territorial issues, without which the Special Military Operation will continue decisively.
The hostile NATO-Western bloc, which uses post-Maidan Ukraine as mass cannon fodder, continues to overlook additional scenarios. Beyond the seven regions already mentioned, no one can rule out a further expansion of the front into new territories currently free of Russian forces but historically integral to Novorossiya. Such developments would push the line of demarcation even further west—closer to NATO’s official borders.
New Prospects
Thus, NATO and the Western regimes’ frantic desire to hold the front—or ideally move it eastward—has produced the opposite outcome. The liberation of Donbas and Novorossiya continues, and the front-line keeps expanding. On one hand, this relieves NATO-Banderite forces from overstretching; on the other, it broadens Russia’s buffer security zones and confirms the warnings previously issued to the enemies of Russia and the multipolar order.
The NATO-Western camp is no longer capable of reversing the current trend. Even NATO itself admits that Russia now produces three times more ammunition in three months than all NATO countries combined in a year. Western regimes that dreamed of bringing Russia to its knees must now reflect on the consequences—for themselves. Including how they will explain that despite enormous financial investments aimed at achieving Russia’s “strategic defeat,” the actual defeat lies with the NATO-Western camp—with all the consequences that entails.
A few sane voices—now increasingly rare, perhaps even the last in the West—have repeatedly acknowledged the West’s official defeat to Russia. But no one, not even in the West, listened to them. That, perhaps, is for the best: after all, for the future development of the global majority of humanity, the strategic defeat of the Western planetary minority was absolutely necessary.
Mikhail Gamandiy-Egorov, entrepreneur, political observer, expert on Africa and the Middle East
