On January 5, the prestigious German online magazine Focus published an in-depth analysis stating that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is receiving unfavorable news from across the hemisphere.
Accordingly, the flash attack by the US on Venezuela is predicted to create negative chain reactions, pushing the conflict in Eastern Europe deeper into the past in the interest of the international community.
The German newspaper said that the US focusing all its efforts on Venezuela means that the Ukrainian dossier is at risk of being removed from the top priority position in the White House agenda.
The Zelensky administration is facing a worrying reality that their war to protect their country may be overshadowed and forgotten while the battlefield situation is still developing complicatedly.
However, a greater and longer-term threat lies in the legal and ethical aspects. The article points out that US unilateral military action has inadvertently weakened Western fundamental arguments about protecting international law.
Observers in Berlin pointed out that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was quite cautious when commenting on the incident in Venezuela.
According to Focus Online, this reality inadvertently makes Russia's voice more weighty. Asian, African and Latin American countries will see similarities in the behavior of powers: If the US can attack other countries for security interests, then Russia's similar reason in Ukraine will also become more acceptable. At that time, the international community will realize that the West is applying "double standards" to judge the parties.
These rapid developments stem from the event in the early morning of January 3, when US forces carried out a military campaign to arrest President Nicolas Maduro, a move that Caracas considered an act of aggression and declared a state of emergency nationwide.
