Very Simple… Trump’s Secret Plan to End the War in Ukraine
Former U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly told close associates about his ability to end the Russo-Ukrainian war by pressuring Kiev.
People familiar with what has been described as Trump‘s “plan” for Ukraine believe that the former president and Republican candidate for the upcoming late-year elections intends to overlook Russian behavior towards Ukraine, according to The Washington Post.
Trump‘s plan seems very simple, but it relies on persuading Kiev to accept what it has refused over the past two years since the start of the fighting in the former Soviet country.
Individuals who discussed the plan with Trump or his advisors said his proposal calls for Ukraine to cede the Crimean peninsula and the Donbass border region to Russia.
This approach, not previously disclosed, starkly contradicts the current U.S. President Joe Biden‘s policy, which has focused on curbing “Russian aggression” and “providing military assistance to Ukraine.”
Washington labels the Russian operation in Ukraine as an “invasion” and considers it contrary to international law, but Moscow argues that its intervention in Ukraine was to save Russian-speaking Ukrainians from persecution by neo-Nazis in Kiev.
During his election campaigns, the Republican candidate often boasted of his ability to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours of being elected, even before assuming full office. However, he repeatedly refused to disclose his plans to end the war that has been ongoing for more than two years and has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians.
The chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Andriy Yermak, said that “American Republicans and their presidential candidate, Donald Trump, must remember that they are the party of Ronald Reagan (the former U.S. president) and they support Ukraine while Russian forces are preparing for a major attack in May or June,” according to Politico.
Asked about fears of Trump‘s reelection or the failure to pass the $60 billion aid package proposed by President Joe Biden to Ukraine in the Republican-controlled House, which was delayed for several months by Trump‘s supporters, Yermak said he did not believe Republicans would forget Reagan’s presidency from 1981 to 1989 and his campaign during the Cold War against Moscow.
In his quest to return to power, the presumed Republican candidate has often boasted of his ability to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours of being elected, even before fully assuming his duties.
Trump has repeatedly refused to disclose his plan to end the Russian war in Ukraine that has been ongoing for more than two years.
Several media outlets reported last March that Hungarian far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after a controversial meeting with Trump in Florida that the former U.S. president “will not give a penny” to Ukraine if reelected president of the United States.
The newspaper indicated that Trump had said in private meetings that he believed Russia and Ukraine wanted to save face and sought a way out, and that citizens in some parts of Ukraine “would do well if they were part of Russia.”
Some Trump supporters are trying to convince him not to achieve such an outcome.
Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican of South Carolina), who was previously critical of Trump and then became an ally, said Putin “cannot win in the end.”
