Trump Prepares Ukraine Deal
Feb. 1—While the eyes of the world are currently focused on the Trump Administration’s efforts to secure a peace deal in Gaza that will stick, sources report that there are quiet discussions taking place among relevant parties who are working out a deal to end NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine. These sources expect that talks are between Ukraine and Russia negotiators, with the United States as mediator, and that while they are talking, they will keep Brussels (the EU) informed, but are not allowing NATO a seat at the table, at least as of now.
“[President] Trump has told NATO to get the f*** out of his way in this,” said one source. “That has already been communicated. Trump has also told Volodymyr Zelenskyy, [NATO’s sock puppet dictator of Ukraine,] that after the current round approved by Congress, he intends to cut off all further U.S. arms shipments, will seek no further appropriations, and will veto anything new handed him by Congress. This is intended to force Zelenskyy to negotiate. Trump has also rescinded the authorization issued by [former Vice President and NATO whore] Kamala Harris to use advanced American weapons systems, like the ATACMS, on targets inside Russia not related to existing battlefronts.” Various sources have reported that it was Harris who gave the okay, along with the national security members of the cabinet, while then-President Joe Biden was out of the country in November, and then forced or coaxed Biden, who had earlier been opposed to the approval, to go along.
This and other sources say that Trump’s emissaries have been in touch with Ukrainian leaders opposed to Zelenskyy, including in the Ukrainian military who have themselves been involved for some time in back-channel discussions with Russian counterparts about ending a war which as President Trump has said, “should never have been started.” Zelenskyy knows this, and it puts further pressure on him to negotiate and to seek the recension of an executive order he signed in October 2022 that bars any negotiation with the Russians.
Ironically, Russian President Vladimir Putin brought this up as a condition of negotiations earlier this week. Putin claims that Zelenskyy today has no authority to reverse the order, as it was issued when he was still legally President of Ukraine, whereas his term ended May 20 of last year. The Russian President said that today, Zelenskyy rules only by a martial law decree, issued Feb. 24, 2022, and extended Nov. 9, 2023, which many Ukrainians regard as illegal, but which is recognized by NATO—a military alliance, not a sovereign state.
Zelenskyy’s decree cancelled scheduled elections in which, it was expected, that the opposition would campaign for an end to the war and likely trounce NATO’s little dictator. Putin said the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s unicameral parliament) would have to reverse the decree before formal and public negotiations could take place.
“Putin wants to negotiate,” said the source. “Stories saying he doesn’t, are merely products of NATO’s propaganda mill. Make no mistake, Trump knows that despite Russia’s having “won” this senseless war, at great sacrifice in lives and diversion of economic resources to the waste of military spending, Putin is going to have to show some concession to the Ukrainian side. Trump has told his people that he will not be a broker for a total Ukrainian capitulation. That will not happen.”
So, what kind of deal is coming together? Sources say that under discussion is something like this: first, an immediate ceasefire and halt to all hostile actions. This is to be followed by an exchange of prisoners, of which there are many. Then there is to be talks around an agreed-upon outline, to include the following: No NATO membership for Ukraine, but a guarantee by the United and perhaps some individual NATO nations, of Ukraine’s borders and sovereignty. Ukrainians will have to cede Crimea and the four eastern Oblasts whose residents voted Sept. 27, 2022 to join the Russian Federation, and are now part of Russia. But the Russians will have to agree to adjust the borders of those Oblasts, and allow any persons living in these four Oblasts to migrate to Ukraine, should they wish to do so. Likewise, Ukraine authorities will have to let any of its citizens who wish to migrate to a Russian area to do so.
“The stickier part of any deal involves what Putin calls the ‘denazification process,’” said the source. “He wants the outright Nazi militia formations, like Azov disbanded, and not be allowed to re-form inside the Ukrainian Army. Ukraine can arm itself, but not with offensive weapons that can attack Russia. Zelenskyy and other NATO idiots are absurd if they think that Russia would ever invade Ukraine again. There is no need for the deployment of troops to protect Ukraine from a fantasized Russian invasion, should these conditions be met in a peace deal.
"President Trump knows this, and he also knows that Russia really poses no threat to the rest of Europe either. He never bought into the narratives of “Fat Mike” [Pompeo, former Secretary of State] and 'The Moustache' [John Bolton, former Trump National Security Advisor 2018-19] and other Third World War idiot-consultants about an alleged Russian threat. Trump has told the crazy Europeans that if they want to fight Russia, that is their business, but he wants no part of it. If they insist on preparing for some imagined war, Trump will pull the U.S. out of NATO. Let’s see how aggressive these jerks are, when the U.S. won’t come to rescue them under Article 5 of NATO’s Charter,” should they begin such a war with Russia.
It is going to take a massive effort to rebuild Ukraine, and here also there will have to be some concessions by Russia, as to how much they will contribute. Trump envisions a package coming together for a global cooperative effort that will also involve rebuilding the now-Russian areas in the four eastern Oblasts, where some of the heaviest fighting has taken place. Trump, sources say, wants to get China, and perhaps even the BRICS alliance involved, of which China and Russia are key members. The sources say that this will all have to be fleshed out as the process proceeds.
“Not so long ago, Ukraine was a prosperous agro-industrial nation,” said the source. “Trump wants to ‘make Ukraine great again.’ That’s how he sees it—turning disaster into opportunity.”
It is expected that there will be some visible action on a peace deal in the next month. But sources say that Trump now realizes that many factors are in play, and it were better to have some firm footing, rather than start something that either collapses quickly or is sabotaged by NATO and its Ukrainian assets, or both. “He has said he would end this in the first days of his Administration,” the source concluded. “Well, those days have come and gone. But he does intend to end the fighting very soon, and the rest will follow.”
Signaling the new direction for U.S. policy on the Ukraine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, while denouncing the Russian invasion, said in an interview Jan. 30 with Megyn Kelly said that it was "dishonest" to claim, once the invasion had taken place that Kyiv was ever capable of destroying Russia on the battlefield and returning to the pre-2014 state of affair.
"But what the dishonesty that has existed is that we somehow led people to believe that Ukraine would be able, not just to defeat Russia, but destroy (Putin), push him all the way back to what the world looked like in 2012 or 2014 before the Russians took Crimea," Rubio said. Yet these statements continue to be repeated by war hawks associated with Biden Administration and have been the mantra of Ukrainian dictator Zelenskyy.
There is only one way to end this war, said Rubio, and it exactly what President Trump has called for—negotiations and compromises on both sides. Up until now the U.S. has attempted, unsuccessfully to "fund a stalemate in the war." The result of this policy, supported by NATO, has been to "set (Ukraine) back 100 years."
"The energy grid is being wiped out. Someone's going to have to pay for all this reconstruction. And how many Ukrainians have left Ukraine (and are) living in other countries now? They may never return," the Secretary of State said, reiterating that the war must end soon.
Russia has carried out a sustained missile and drone campaign against Ukraine's energy infrastructure throughout the full-scale war, leading to blackouts and power deficits. Over 6 million Ukrainians have fled the country after the start of the invasion.
"The nation’s future hangs in the balance in this regard," Rubio said repeating his earlier statements that "both sides of the conflict will need to make compromises" for successful negotiations.
Earlier this month, Rubio paused almost all foreign assistance flowing through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), presenting a significant challenge to various civilian programs in Ukraine that rely on U.S. support, including in the energy sector.