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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
The advisors of former US President Donald Trump have prepared a plan to cut support for Ukraine if Kiev continues to refuse negotiations with Russia and if the billionaire wins this year’s presidential election. According to one of the advisors, they were “pleased” with Trump’s response to their plan.
“We tell the Ukrainians, ‘You’ve got to come to the table, and if you don’t come to the table, support from the United States will dry up,’” he said. “And you tell Putin, ‘He’s got to come to the table and if you don’t come to the table, then we’ll give Ukrainians everything they need to kill you in the field,’” said retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, who devised the plan with Fred Fleitz.
The two advisers, who were chiefs of staff at the National Security Council during Trump’s presidency, told Reuters on June 25 that a ceasefire was envisaged based on the existing front line. They clarified that Trump “responded favourably.”
“I’m not claiming he agreed with it or agreed with every word of it, but we were pleased to get the feedback we did,” Fleitz said.
In mid-June, Russian President Vladimir Putin put forward peace proposals to resolve the conflict by recognising the status of Crimea, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, and Lugansk as regions of Russia, consolidating Ukraine’s non-aligned and nuclear-free status, demilitarising and denazifying the country, and lifting anti-Russian sanctions. Kiev rejected the initiative.
“Ukraine has an absolutely clear understanding and it is spelled out in the peace formula proposed by President (Volodymyr) Zelensky, it is clearly stated there – peace can only be fair and peace can only be based on international law,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak told Reuters.
Meanwhile, White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the White House would not force the Kiev regime into negotiations with Russia as “President Biden believes that any decisions about negotiations are up to Ukraine.”
As far back as October 2022, Zelensky legislated the banning of peace negotiations with Moscow. Effectively, the Biden administration is making no efforts to push Kiev to negotiate peace with Moscow since Zelensky has not removed the decree, who instead pushes his own ridiculous terms as a means for achieving peace, such as the arrest of Putin.
Trump’s Campaign Communications Director, Steven Cheung, commented on Kellogg and Fleitz’s plan in Newsweek: “President Trump has repeatedly stated that a top priority in his second term will be to quickly negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war. President Trump believes European nations should be paying more of the cost of the conflict, as the U.S. has paid significantly more, which is not fair to our taxpayers. The war between Russia and Ukraine never would have happened if Donald J. Trump were President. So sad.”
Cheung is referring to Trump’s famous statements last year, in which he said that if re-elected president, he would tell Zelensky, “No more,” and that “you got to make a deal,” before reaffirming that he would have a peace deal “done in one day, one day.”
Although there is no indication that Moscow is receptive to Trump’s peace plan, especially as a major objective is the demilitarisation of Ukraine, at least his administration, if elected in November, has intentions of establishing peace, unlike Biden, who is instigating perpetual war in Eastern Europe.
The Biden administration is obviously frustrated with Trump’s intentions for ending the war in Ukraine, considering the very real prospect that the former president could re-enter the White House in January 2025, who has consistently been leading in the polls.
Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer told Newsweek on June 25, “Donald Trump heaps praise on Vladimir Putin every chance he gets, and he’s made clear he won’t stand against Putin.”
This very reaction shows that the Biden administration would rather continue wasting tens of billions of US taxpayer dollars to prop up the Ukrainian military so the war does not come to a swift conclusion, which will ultimately end in only one way – Russia’s decisive victory.
For this reason, it is little wonder that Moscow’s first reaction to Kellogg and Fleitz’s plan is one of positivity, even if it was caveated with a warning that peace must take into account the “real state of affairs on the ground.”
“The value of any plan lies in the nuances and in taking into account the real state of affairs on the ground,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Reuters. “We do not know what kind of plan we are talking about, or what is set out in it.”
“President Putin has repeatedly said that Russia has been and remains open to negotiations, taking into account the real state of affairs on the ground. We remain open to negotiations, and in order to evaluate the plan, we must first familiarise ourselves with it,” he added.
Whether Trump will be elected president remains to be seen, but his return to the White House would mark a slow de-escalation in the hostile ties between Moscow and Washington that Biden instigated. If elected, it is very unlikely that the war will end in “one day,” but it does at least point to intentions to end the fighting, a basis of a peace plan to work off, and an end to Zelensky’s ban of negotiations with Moscow.
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for now the discussions are shit on the cabbage.russia will win the war and impose the peace treaty as it wants. russia go on.
trump, shmump.. he’s a liar like all the rest, and a narcissist to boot.
he says: “i know putin. i talked with him. he told me his dream, ukraine was his dream …..blah, blah, more bullshit, blah, blah. he’d never have dared invade ukraine if i’d been the boss because i would just huff and puff and blow his house down, besides, he loved me like everyone else and he’d never have dared go against me. i’m the latest, greatest everything. just call me your living god.”
puke and double puke, what a lying blowhard. and you europeons are riding in the wake of that pathetic imitation of a country, america, the country run either by a halfwit zombie or a living god blowhard, one as stupid and dishonest as the other. it’s bad enough being an american to live with such embarrassment, but to be a europeon lackey, that’s twice as bad. wow, are we ever fucked.
that would be the best option. then that wat russia can deal with the western lap dogs in there own time without member of the public being in harm’s way. 😂🤣😂🤜🤛
primitive, useless, arrogant, not working plan. 1.to give more weapons to hohols. if they could give, it had been done already. 2.promising to pause the join of rural reich to the atlantic pact for some time. what time? half year? go to hell with such crap. next administration will say we don’t care about trump’s promises. putin will continue to tell he’s ready for negotiations, but no negotiations with real results can be done, because any trust to western sodomites was lost a long time ago.
any such plan of trump’s has the huge advantage that it will be imposed not by the nato adversary but by the dominant nato partner. nato warmongers will be forced to turn to diplomacy, however appalling that prospect – except to ordinary europeans! sweden and finland may find that the only result of having declared themselves enemies of russia is that they have to resource an unwinnable nato rump war in the ukraine.
the war in ukraine is a small part of the larger and long-term strategic hybrid war against russia. therefore the us-imperial deep state cannot allow trump to end this war by forcing ukraine to capitulate to russia. unfortunately this imperial hybrid war resulted in catastrophic defeats after an early and long-term constly win in afghanistan, iraq, syria, libya, yemen, somalia and other countries.
not only china and russia, but also türkiye and iran are helping to eliminate imperial terrorists in africa, asia & latin-america. there is now way for us-empire to succeed, but retreat is not an option for them, as without war they are already kicked out economically from all important markets. military investment in proxy wars is the only remaining option, but this accelerates the buildup of military resistance.
usa navy must fear its ships to be destroyed and sunk by the small yemeni army. coming with a full fleet into the mediterranean sea doesn’t intimidate hezbollah or anyone else, rather it is effectively an invitation to be humiliated by hezbollah.
muricans talk garbage, russia acts and reacts…
l0$er!… and “l0$er”!…
owned and operated by the $tate of i$rael… and so is putin unle$$ he breaks free from the un ca$in0!!!
who the fuck donald dump and his fucking americunts think they are? they think they are so powerful to instruct mr putin??? they better check their zio terrorist given diapers to see how much they have shitted themselves
lying republicon muppet his peace plan is bullshit he has none just what putin communicates the marionette.
push me into lgbt potato field
the democrats have golden opportunity to dump biden, and send him scapegoat to the desert with all his negatives. a 1992 bill clinton type candidate will be nominated and will devastate trump in second debate. this new democrat will back nato and oppose russia. he will win. biden out, trump down for the count.
two geriatrics gone.
two countries gone, us and rf… in a nuclear whirlwind.
since 2014 the vermin in kyjiw has been using fighter-jets against civillians, so they retreat, become neutral, demilitarize and denazificate or the bloodshit continues.
inna kukuruza.. and thousands of others.
without a globalist victory in ukraine western hegemony will die along with the globalists and their ideas hopefully
“then we’ll give ukrainians everything they need to kill you in the field,’” said retired lt. gen. keith kellogg, who devised the plan with fred fleitz.”
the jewmerican subanimal is suicidal. russians will incinerate the filth after taking matter in their hands from the judeo-masonic agent putin who will be hanged by the balls , skinned alive and burned. all the bunkers , hideways and every rathole the jewmerican filth be hiding in will not help for there will be no jewmerica for them to crawl out to.
i can devise a plan like that too, then flush it down the toilet where it belongs, after wiping my ass with it.
president trump gave many orders and none were followed up by the military the only ones that were were those which the powers behind the curtain liked. killing the iranian general and firing missiles on a syrian base. just like obama in his first term someone like blinken will open a shadow presidency office and coordinate the important descisions of the nation and the alliance.