Trump Latest Attempt to Appease Putin
U.S. President Donald Trump is once again trying to appease Russia’s ruler Vladimir Putin as he seeks to end the Russian aggression in Ukraine.
According to the New York Post, POTUS will reveal the latest peace plan’s details in upcoming days. It is slated to include a set of terms, many of which are not in Ukraine’s interest.
This includes the official recognition of Russian-occupied Crimea as part of Russia, and de-facto (not officially) recognition of the other occupied territory as Russian-controlled, shelving Ukraine’s NATO membership, and more.
“‘De facto’ means we recognize the Russians occupy this land, but we don’t say [Ukraine is] going to give it up forever,” the official told the New York Post. “‘De jure’ means we acknowledge that [the Russians] take in this land and we’ll never see it back again.”
“I will be giving you a full detail over the next three days,” Trump told reporters. “But we had very good meetings on Ukraine, Russia … We’ll see how that works.”
Trump, who has been increasingly growing frustrated with the lack of progress in peace talks and threatened to end America’s involvement in the process, has been offering many concessions to Putin.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who now appears to be looking for a new job following a series of messaging scandals in the Signal app, discarded the idea of Ukraine’s membership in the Alliance or returning to the pre-2014 borders even before the negotiations started . This position was then reiterated many times by the representatives of the Trump’s administration, including Trump’s Special Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg who has been effectively sidelined from the Russia-Ukraine negotiations, with Trump loyalist and Putin admirer Steve Witkoff filling his place instead.
Ukraine blackmailed
Since Trump took office on January 20 2025, Ukraine has been blackmailed into submission with the administration cutting off military aid to the war-torn country after the infamous Oval Office spat between Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump, and Vice President J.D. Vance in late February.
As a result of this decision, Ukraine’s positions on the battlefield deteriorated, with the U.S. administration also forcing a new and expanded version of the “minerals deal” that grants the U.S. control over Ukraine’s resources and infrastructure.
While the initial deal contained a debt of $300 billion – a false number that Trump and his team made up and spread in the media – for Ukraine to repay, it has then been “reduced” to $100 billion. A host of commentators described this as extortion and blackmail as the embattled county has no choice but to accept the deal.
While Kyiv has yet to sign the final agreement, it has already subscribed to its Memorandum.
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