In the years after the 2014 coup that overthrew President Viktor Yanukovych the Pentagon backed Ukranian paramilitary Neo-Nazis had a stranglehold on the government and the military in Ukraine and had been waging a CIA backed civil war against ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. Zelensky ran for office on the peace token, promising to end the fighting that had already killed thousands of civilians, but shortly after Zelensky's inauguration, former UVA leader Dmytro Yarosh made it clear and openly threatened, Zelenski would be killed and hung from a tree if he tried to end the civil war between the far right and the Russian seperatists in Eastern Ukraine.
This all means if Zelensky really did want to bring peace to Ukraine he was going to have to remove those neo-nazis first but as they were now so well integrated into the Ukranian military his options were severely limited. He could not dare to try to use Ukraine's own security forces against them and as the Pentagon were the ones funding them and training them he could not expect any help from the US or NATO so who is left? The enemy of my enemy is my friend and surely no one could be more repulsed by the neo-nazis that were attacking ethnic Russians in Ukraine than the Russian President himself and not only that, Putin actually has the means to remove them.
That all makes Putin, Zelensky's most obvious ally but there could be no chance of Zelensky surviving if he formed an alliance with Putin openly so now, look what they did. Zelensky pretends to form alliance with the far right in Ukraine. They then plan a renewed offensive against the Russian seperatists in Donbass and move all the far right elements of the Ukranian military to the east for that operation. In the meantime Putin sends 150,000 troops to the border and once all those nazis have assembled Putin sends in his forces in a pretend attack on the major cities while what he is really doing is cutting off and surrounding all those Neo-Nazi troops and he spends the next month destroying all their equipment and softening them up with artillary. The nazis keep fighting back but they start running out of ammunition and they can't understand why they never get resupplied....
Yes Kolomoyskyi funded them when they needed fighters to put down Russian seperatists in 2014 but that was then. It does not mean Kolomoyski has not since recognized he created a monster that was no longer under the control of Ukraine and in fact in 2019 Kolomoyski criticised US involvement in the region and claimed the US was pushing Ukraine and Russia into a military conflict. He also urged Zelensky to therefore create better relations with Russia.
It would literally be a masterstroke if Zelenski really did work with Putin to take advantage of the belief that the US was pushing them into conflict to then stage that very conflict and use it to lure the neo-nazi military units into a trap that would demilitarize them and rid Ukraine of their pathological violence that was under the control of the CIA while at the same time ending the civil war and ridding Ukraine of US bioweapons labs and people like Hunter Biden and now we now hear Zelensky saying he is done with trying to negotiate with NATO.
Yeah. I'm not rejecting it wholesale, I'm saying it's some 5D chess.