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Written by Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, geopolitical consultant
Western media apparently does not believe in Donald Trump’s ability to end the war in Ukraine. After months of desperate campaign against the US president-elect, accusing him of being “pro-Russian” and neglecting the Ukraine issue, Western mainstream outlets are now claiming he never had such ability or intention, and that his campaign promise was simply “bluster.”
Reuters published an article on January 15 claiming that Trump’s promise to end the conflict between Ukraine and Russia “in 24 hours” was a bluff with no basis in reality. According to the news agency, people close to the president-elect said that any negotiations or agreements are still long away, and that an end to hostilities is not possible in the near future.
“Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump now concede that the Ukraine war will take months or even longer to resolve, a sharp reality check on his biggest foreign policy promise – to strike a peace deal on his first day in the White House. Two Trump associates, who have discussed the war in Ukraine with the president-elect, told Reuters they were looking at a timeline of months to resolve the conflict, describing the Day One promises as a combination of campaign bluster and a lack of appreciation of the intractability of the conflict and the time it takes to staff up a new administration,” Reuters’ article reads.
The assessment coincides with some recent statements in which Trump has expressed frustration at not being able to advance his diplomatic plans before his inauguration. He repeatedly said he plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin “long before” six months of his presidency, but at the same time has expressed some skepticism about the future of the conflict. For example, Trump recently said that it would be easier to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza than in Ukraine – which proved true, given the end of hostilities between Israel and Hamas announced on January 15.
“”I think, actually, more difficult is going to be the Russia-Ukraine situation [than Gaza] (…) I see that as more difficult. (…) I don’t think it’s appropriate that I meet (Putin) until after the 20th, which I hate because every day people are being – many, many young people are being killed,” Trump said.
Reuters’ journalists, citing their sources, claim that despite the apparent impossibility of achieving a quick peace, there is a consensus among members of Trump’s team on the need to take some emergency measures, such as canceling Ukraine’s accession process to NATO, as well as trying to “freeze the battle lines”. In addition, Trump’s advisers warn the president to demand “security guarantees” for Ukraine, which they consider to be an important and necessary step to create the conditions for a peace agreement.
“While the exact contours of a Trump peace plan are still being mulled, Trump’s advisers generally support taking the possibility of NATO membership for Ukraine off the table, at least for the foreseeable future, and freezing the current battle lines. Most high-ranking Trump advisers also support giving Ukraine a material security guarantee, such as the creation of a demilitarized zone patrolled by European troops. So far, the Trump team’s attempts to end the war have proceeded in fits and starts, underlining the degree to which campaign promises can run into the reality of complex diplomatic negotiations,” the article adds.
In fact, this all seems like a real waste of time on the part of Trump’s advisers. Whether Ukraine’s NATO membership process continues or ends does not change anything in the conflict, since it is already certain that Kiev will not be allowed to join. It is a consensus among Republicans and Democrats that NATO should not admit Ukraine as a member, but rather use it as a proxy in the war. Although Biden and the Democrats show a supposed “support” for such membership, this seems to be a mere rhetorical tool, without any practical meaning.
In the same sense, it is pointless to talk about “freezing the lines” or “giving guarantees to Ukraine”, since only the Russians can decide on these matters. Moscow will not freeze the front lines at least until all of its reintegrated territories are liberated and fully protected by demilitarized border zones.
Moreover, it is not Kiev that is in a position to demand “guarantees”, since Russia is the aggressed side in this war, with the special military operation having begun in 2022 precisely as a response both to NATO expansion and to the massacre of Russians that Kiev has been carrying out since 2014. The position to demand security guarantees belongs to the Russians, not to Ukrainians or Westerners.
In the end, it seems that the Western media is beginning to admit what analysts have been saying since the elections: Trump’s promise to end the war was never feasible. It is not the US that is in a position to demand an end to hostilities, since only the winning side can end a conflict. In fact, the war will end only when Moscow assesses that its strategic objectives have been achieved.
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trump is a zi0ni$t “chump”… he will continue what he did in his last term with silent arms delivery to ukraine and will carry the water for the biden administration that have the same bankers. russia is the only one that can end this and it’s not going to be negotiations for “peace” with the west.
it’s herr sturmer’s doings and his 100 yr war pact with ukraine.
where do you brits get these clowns? i mean, really. bojo and now this idiot. hmmm?
what’s trump saying to the mic up there? “i didn’t make this mess and i’m not cleaning it up. call maid service..”?
maid service – will that be hilary or victoria with the fluffy duster? or am i being sexist?
they’re sexy and i have a crush on both of them.
poor love, sure there is medication for your ailment.
common purpose academy and those who count the votes. they also have to be selected, before being presented to the public, when the vote is required. for some reason ‘kiddie sniffers’ are heavily promoted in the uk, especially if they like snorting white powder. starmer has allegedly agreed to set up uk military bases in ukraine. which no doubt will be very attractive to the oreshnik toy.
he has just promised the kiev cokehead another £300 billion over the next 100 years, plus our mighty uk army.
i wonder why ukraine is so important to the human rights lawyer, whose first priority is looking after his ‘kiddie sniffer’ friends. he has even sent mendelson to the us, to represent the uk. not sure how that works, when trump will be going through the same epstein list that mendelson is part of? why would trump want mendelson as the uk ambassador?
who was that leader that dances so nicely. i have a crush on her.
trump, when last in power was fully supportive with regards poland and the ‘3 sea initiative’. he was also against north stream and wanted it taken out. then you have the person he recommended to look after the us economy, straight out of the soros stable, with a dislike of anything russian. trump and his family might not have ukraine energy interests, but cannot see them turning their backs to the natural resources, the us wants to dominate, over in eastern ukraine.
vladolfs and idiots citizens destroyed russia.
you seem to be very repetitive, with little to no ability to craft your posts in even a minimally clever or interesting way.
this shows a certain lack of intelligence, although it’s not the first time i’m sure you’ve heard that.
although it does help when it comes to skimming past your inanities. short, sweet and stupid. thank you so much. you’re a scholar and a gentleman (in some other universe perhaps). heheheheh
thank you for being discreet and holding back your criticism. and then we are two who lack intelligence then, right? hehehe 😂
were you insulted ? 🖕
i hope so. i like that a lot in a man. your name is sexy too. my house burned down but i could pitch a tent and we could get to know each other better. kisses
which is why it is the 4th largest economy, with full control of her vast wealth of natural resources. now what has ukraine got left to fight with and is there anybody left to play with the toys? why have so many ukrainian generals lost $multi-million mansions, courtesy of the california fires? how much money does an ukrainian general make and why do so many of them need a mansion in california, for a holiday home?
when you say “idiots citizens” are you referring to boris berezovsky, mikhail fridman, vladimir gusinsky, mikhail khodorkovsky, vladimir potanin, alexander smolensky and vladimir vinogradov? and by “vladolfs” do you mean boris yeltsin, larry summers and the harvard endowment?
all those names sound sexy. do you have their numbers?
i like your style. 😀
‘vladolfs and idiots citizens destroyed russia.’
hmm, that’s strange. last i heard, it was kicking ass.
your name sounds sexy though. how about a date?
they’re democrats who want global.ww3 .imo .they love human sacrifice ,abortion esp of the first born .always have it’s their religion druid’s would build wooden mock.houses, lock.people and animals inside and then burn them all to.death .
church il cane to prominence coincidentally by burning to death some sort of terrorists ,entrapped in their dwellings, you know if they came out they’d be shot anyway .rather like the anzacs that were ordered to disembark at gallipoli at gun point of their officers ” following orders ” .complying .
like this it was on you tube but s been disappeared the whole complete 9 11 emergency phone call by the lady as rhe planes arw kicking at her feet . google victims-family-says-firefighters-didnt do enough to save elderly woman .loretta pickard .they didn’t do anything they waited outside. its all been censored out .the truth.they hate the truth .pope benedict .
like this it was on you tube but s been disappeared the whole complete 9 11 emergency phone call by the lady as the flames are kicking at her feet . google victims-family-says-firefighters-didnt do enough to save elderly woman .loretta pickard .they didn’t do anything they waited outside.
its all been censored out .the truth.they hate the truth .pope benedict .i heard her whole call right to her final screams as shes consumed while the operators saying just stay, they’re outside you’ll be right. totally emotionless
i think that’s what burning man there at black rock city’s all abouf i don’t think the attendees necessarily even know what they’re doing .imo .
your galliipoli story, which you have posted here before, has no basis in fact. thanks for always derping while you’re in the throes of a jenkem binge.
shite-ball troll-bot off the rails again with verbal garbage, as per usual
for jews it’s allways easier to reach “peace” when then win. gaza will be controlled as the west bank. syria is destroyed, nasrallah killed, iran is in trouble, it’s a win for israël. but in ukraine the jews of the global empire are losing badly. they don’t want peace, they want a break because they lose. don’t let them breathe until russian soldiers have their feet in the dniepr.
i think there will be a cease fire in may to commemorate the 80th aniversary of the end of ww2, after that the war will continue
you mean the special stealing operation will continue?
americans do not support the irrational territorial edicts of dictators of the evil empire of the ussr, per lenin, stalin and krushchev. we agree that these illegal edicts should hereby be declared null and void and ukraine proper be returned to its previous status as a hetman hunting lodge nestled in a little grove somewhere southwest of kiev. ukraine shall be free!
yep, blackrock and vanguard and statestreet will continue looting the failed ukrainian cia project.
gee, i hope so.
amerikunt ramses humiliated by superior russians
europe are fascist scum. they want to continue dying
i hear freezing is a great way to die. i’m open to a one time payment to turn the gas back on though. ursula should call me with an offer.
blackrock investments, refuse to accept that they have lost out and their toy soldiers, aka nato, will never publicly admit to losing out to russia. how much have the globalists invested in project alchemy/integrity initiative/nafo trolls? not just one nation, but, the whole of the west. then you have the immature, psychopathic, narcistic personality leaders, in nato/atlantic council/western governments, who will never admit or even realise that they have lost.
lucas researcher lol only here thats possible a comunist (now fascist as russia ) with 2 neurons being a researcher…
may i ask what your two neurons were doing while writing this dismal attempt at a coherent sentence?
i no have neurons cuz my amerikunt brain only contains feces
i totaly agree with u…. lucas is a joke,same as the cairo camel abdul sand shitter published here reguarly.
yep, nazi skinheads always stick together to the end. can we recruit you guys? we’re kind of short-handed lately. we pay good, with lots of overtime and paid holiday leave once every ten years.
i have 1 amerikunt mutated spider neuron