Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Not Yet Revealed

Dec. 2—When Donald Trump announced that he had selected Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg as his special envoy to Ukraine, the stupid pundits and spin-meisters at places like CNN and The New York Times immediately assumed that the President-elect would be going with a peace plan that Kellog had put forward last April, in an article written for the Trump-linked America First Policy Institute.

But sources close to the President-elect say that Trump is working on a plan that contains elements of Kellog’s proposal, but is something, on the whole, completely different in intent. Kellogg’s plan has too much future involvement of NATO and actually makes NATO a party to the negotiations. Trump blames NATO even more than Russian President Vladimir Putin for what has happened in Ukraine and wants to move away from NATO’s involvement in any peace deal. He sees no reason for Ukraine to be part of NATO, and accepts the idea put forward by Putin and others that Ukraine, with proper security guarantees from the United States and Russia and perhaps even China, should be a neutral nation, like Austria.

“I am not going to tell you any details [of Trump’s] plan,” said a source. “Those details will be clear in good time. But I can say this: Donald Trump hates NATO and believes that it has worked against the interests of the United States. He believes that it should have been disbanded as a treaty organization in 1991 when the Soviet Union formally dissolved as a sovereign state. At that point, NATO had no purpose. In addition, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, III promised President Mikhail Gorbachev that if Germany was allowed into NATO, then NATO would not move one inch eastward. Bush went along with the deal, but President Bill Clinton started NATO’s relentless march eastward. It stops with Trump, because he knows that to do otherwise will mean war, not some proxy bullshit, as NATO wanted this war in Ukraine to be. Right now, with the launches of three ATACMS missiles, NATO is at war with Russia. No, Ukraine is not going to be a NATO member, Trump wants a deal, and that is a deal breaker.”

For what it’s worth, here is what was in Kellogg’s plan:

• a ceasefire will freeze the front lines and both sides will be forced to the negotiating table. Kellogg says Ukraine’s NATO membership should be put on hold indefinitely, “in exchange for a comprehensive and verifiable peace deal with security guarantees”;

• the plan says it should become “a formal U.S. policy to seek a ceasefire and negotiated settlement”;

• the front lines would be frozen by a ceasefire, and a demilitarized zone imposed. For agreeing to this, Russia would get limited sanctions relief, and full relief only when a peace deal is signed that is to Ukraine’s liking;

• a levy on income from Russian energy exports would pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction;

• Ukraine would not be asked to give up on reclaiming Russian occupied territory, but it would agree to pursue it through diplomacy alone. If accepted, “this would require a future diplomatic breakthrough which probably will not occur before Putin leaves office”;

• a demilitarized zone would likely need to be policed, possibly putting NATO troops, or soldiers from non-aligned nations, in between the two sides. That will be hard to maintain and staff, to say the least. It would be enormous, spanning hundreds of miles of border, and a massive financial investment.

“This stuff is not going to be the peace plan that Trump puts forward,” said the source. “I think people need to understand something: The idea is not to find something to placate that little asshole, NATO’s sock puppet dictator of Ukraine, [President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy. He will do whatever the U.S. wants, or he will be deposed and left to be hung on some lamp post, like Benito Mussolini, by the families of all those soldiers he sent to their useless deaths. Trump will not seek to humiliate the Ukrainian people. He will have Putin grant some concessions, but in the end, it is Putin who must agree to the deal.

“So, no NATO. They can be a guarantor of some cease fire, as well they might, because they will stop supplying weapons for Ukrainians to use to kill Russians. But no NATO membership. Also, the Russians are not giving back any land that has become part of Russia. Not happening. The borders of those areas can be adjusted, and people can be allowed to leave and others to come back in. There could have been agreement to make those areas autonomous regions of Ukraine, which was what was agreed to back in April 2022 in the deal that [UK Prime Minister] Boris Johnson and NATO sabotaged. But not now.

“And also, Trump knows that there will be no deal at all with Putin unless the Nazi militias like Azov are dismantled and prevented from reforming,” said the source. “No one ever talks about this, but Trump knows it is very important to Putin and the Russians. The most important thing to Trump is that the war be ended, and that NATO’s escalation to direct attacks on Russia—with the Russians already retaliating against NATO and deliberately targeting and killing Americans—must stop, yesterday, if not sooner.”

The source also called speculation about the meaning of remarks made by Zelenskyy in a Sky News interview Nov. 29 “stupid gibberish.”

“If we want to stop the hot phase of the war, we need to take under the NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control,” Zelenskyy said. “We need to do it fast. And then on the [occupied] territory of Ukraine, Ukraine can get it back in a diplomatic way.”

“These are just words,” the source said. “All that is worth noting is that he is no longer talking about his ‘victory plan,’ or any victory, at all. Of course, he wants to be more in alignment with what Trump will propose. But he has no idea what Trump is going to do. In that same Sky News interview, when he was asked whether this reflects Trump’s thinking, the fool was forced to admit that he has not spoken with Trump since September and that he has no idea what Trump thinks. Zelenskyy says that he knows that the war will end in 2025 with some diplomatic agreement. He has got the message: Trump will end this, and it will be he and Putin and not this little Hitler, who will make this happen, and that he better not get in the way.”