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Talk with Putin Puts Trump Ukraine Peace Plan on Schedule

Feb. 14—President Donald Trump says that he had a “lengthy and highly productive call” with Russian President Vladimir Putin that has laid the groundwork for a negotiated settlement to NATO’s war against Russia in the Ukraine.

 

The Feb. 11 call “discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects,” according to a Trump post on Truth Social that evening. Trump expressed his hope for the “great benefits” to the world that will come when Russia and the United States can again work together.

 

“But first, as we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine. President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, ‘COMMON SENSE.’ We both believe very strongly in it.

 

“We agreed to work together, very closely, including visiting each other’s Nations. We have also agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now,” the President told the world, announcing that the two [Trump and Putin] would likely meet soon in Saudi Arabia. [Trump made that call with Zelenskyy after getting off the phone with Putin.]

 

Sources report that the call, the initiative for which came from Trump and was set in motion by secret communications sent to the Russian President by Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East and all trouble in the world, who Trump had dispatched to Moscow to work out the details of the release by the Russians of American teacher Marc Fogel, and the subsequent release by America of a Russian cybersecurity chief, worked out in advance. In his Truth Social post, Trump thanked Putin for his efforts to secure Fogel’s release. The two presidents conversed for 1.5 hours, and, according to a Kremlin report, they reached a consensus that “the two leaders must work together.”

 

(These and other sources report that Trump and Putin have talked more than this one time over the last two months, but have chosen not to make those calls public.)

 

The sources indicated that the Feb. 11 call with Putin puts the Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine, the outlines for which had been leaked to the Ukrainian media last month, back on schedule. The Plan, which bars NATO membership for Ukraine and effectively allows Russia to keep the four oblasts it seized (Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson) which are now part of the Russian Federation, along with Crimea, with borders to be negotiated and adjusted. However, to make the deal more palatable to the Ukrainians, the Plan contains no formal recognition of new borders nor any statement by Ukraine that cedes sovereignty over the territories seized to the Russian Federation.

 

The Plan calls for the Russian Armed Forces to pull out of all areas of Ukraine other than the four oblasts, while Ukraine is to remove its forces from those areas and from the Kursk Oblast of Russia which the Armed Forces of Ukraine had invaded. Ukraine is to be a sovereign and neutral nation, allowed to join the European Union by 2030. The agreement will be guaranteed by the United States and policed by a force made up of European nations, but operating without NATO control, which is not to play any role in the peace process. There are to be no NATO or U.S. troops involved.

 

The Plan schedule calls for Trump to first work things out with Putin and then bring the preliminary ideas to Zelenskyy by mid-February, after which there would be an arranged phone discussion between Putin and the Ukrainian dictator. And finally, there would be a face-to-face meeting between the two leaders (Putin and Zelenskyy) in March, after which there would be an announcement of a ceasefire that would take effect April 20 (Easter). Following that, there would be negotiations to work through the terms of the peace agreement, in which Trump may, at some point, personally take part, with the final terms of the deal to be announced May 9, the day that Europe and the world celebrates 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany.

 

“Trump is making sure that this peace train runs on time,” said a source. “He has said that he intends to end the war within 100 days of the start of his administration. He intends to force this ceasefire into effect by April 20. Putin has already agreed to this. All the blather about having to force Putin’s agreement is just that—blather, circulated by NATO, its Ukrainian satrap, and its allies in the U.S., especially inside the military-intelligence complex.

 

"While Russians and Ukrainians kill each other in alarming numbers, defense contractors in the U.S. and NATO countries have raked in hundreds of billions of dollars in weapons and munitions sales, and they want it to continue. The person who will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the table is Zelenskyy. That little twerp is reportedly furious at Trump for talking to Putin first and then telling the world he did so. Trump has told this guy that he has no choice but to accept a negotiated settlement, because he, Trump, no longer intends to continue blank-check funding of the war. In fact, Trump has put it to Zelenskyy that all the weapons the U.S. sent Ukraine were not gifted, that he intends for the U.S to be paid for them, as their agreements stipulate. He has suggested that the U.S. be paid in Ukrainian rare earth minerals. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent went to Kyiv this week to discuss such an arrangement.

 

“The President is using that leverage to demand concessions—if Zelenskyy plays nice, the U.S. might forgive some or even most of this war debt,” the source continued. But the killing has to stop. He told this arrogant little punk, ‘You lost your war. You could never have won it and should have agreed to peace in April 2023, when the terms would have been more favorable. You were given some bad advice by the Biden people and NATO. Now, I am going to get you the best deal possible.’ 

"Zelenskyy was furious, but his back is against the wall. Trump knows that only the Nazis in various militias like Azov want the war to continue. The Armed Forces of Ukraine has lost the will to fight and it is running out of bodies to throw into the meatgrinder. So, if Zelenskyy puts up opposition to the Plan, he will be replaced and likely strung up on some lamppole by the Ukrainian people.

 

“NATO is totally freaked out because it is being left out,” the source stated. “Trump and his cabinet members have told NATO, ‘stay out of our way and keep your mouths shut. We are going to end your war. We are going to stop the needless slaughter, and you had better go along with us.’

 

“Meanwhile, NATO has also been told, in no uncertain terms, that the U.S. does not intend to be dragged into a war against Russia that NATO might want to provoke. It has been made clear to them that there is a new Sheriff in town, that he is not like that weak wimp Joe Biden, and that he will not let the U.S. be pushed around, not by NATO or the British, or what is called “Europe”—the European Union, which is effectively run by NATO.”

 

This has provoked an hysterical response from the NATO propaganda machine on both sides of the Atlantic, which has accused Trump of selling out Ukraine to Putin. But Trump was prepared for this. He timed his call with Putin to precede various NATO infused meetings, including the Munich Security Summit, which now serves solely as a platform for NATO rants. Trump sent over his team, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Vice President JD Vance to repeat the message: He and Putin intend to end this war. He will get the best possible terms for Ukraine. They repeated the argument, first put out by Rubio last month in an interview Jan. 30 with Megyn Kelley, that there was never a chance that Ukraine could have defeated Russia, that this was delusional and a deception to say this—which NATO puppet Zelenskyy had, until recently, made his mantra. And, that there was always zero chance that Ukraine borders could be returned to pre-2014, i.e., before Russia seized Crimea.

 

Trump, in his Truth Social post on the Putin call, had reiterated his claim that the Russia-Ukraine war would have never started if he had been president, stressing: “No more lives should be lost!” Then, he hammered home the point further, laying blame for the war, not on Putin alone, as had been the line during the Biden Administration, but on the provocative expansionism of NATO, which drew the Russian response.

 

In what is becoming a hallmark of his presidential communications, Trump summoned the press into the Oval Office Feb. 13, to sit surrounding his desk, while he signed trade-related executive orders. And when they brought up the Putin call and the Ukraine war, to the visible shock of those assembled media, the President said when he first heard of the possibility of NATO extending membership to Ukraine, he commented, ‘There will be a war.’ A big part of the problem was, Russia—for many, many years, long before Putin—said, ‘You could never have NATO involved with Ukraine.’ Now, they’ve said that. That’s been, like, written in stone.... And, somewhere along the line, Biden said, ‘No. They should be able to join NATO.’ Well, then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep, and I could understand their feelings about that.”

Trump also criticized the West for throwing Russia out of the G8 intergovernmental political forum. “I’d love to have them back. I think it was a mistake to throw them out. Look, it’s not a question of liking Russia or not liking Russia. It was the G8.”

 

Trump announced the appointment of his negotiating team, to be led by Steve Witkoff. Also on the team is Marco Rubio, Secretary of State; John Ratcliffe, Director of the CIA; and Michael Waltz, National Security Advisor. Trump stated that he believes that the negotiations, which could start early next month, will be difficult but they will be “successful.”

Meanwhile, Trump announced that the negotiations will begin with Zelenskyy, when Vice President Vance meets with him Feb. 15, ahead of the Munich Security Conference. Sources say that “Zelenskyy is going to get some ‘tough love.’” The Ukrainian dictator, whose Constitutional term of office as President expired May 20, who rules under a martial law decree, the legality of which has been questioned, is expected to fly to Washington next week to meet with Trump. He is also expected to meet with the anti-Trump NATO lobby in Congress.

 

Sources report that preparations are well-advanced for a Trump-Putin meeting in Saudi Arabia later this month or the beginning of March.