US President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to present a long-awaited plan to end Russia’s war on Ukraine at the Munich Security Conference in Germany next week, according to people familiar with the matter.
The blueprint would be presented to allies by Trump’s special representative for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, the people said on condition of anonymity. They declined to say how detailed they expected the discussions to be or what format they would take.
The proposal would be delivered at the February 14-16 conference in the Bavarian city a week before Russia’s war hits the three-year mark. Kellogg and others have dropped hints in recent weeks of what Trump allies have referred to as “peace through strength”.
Elements include potentially freezing the conflict and leaving territory occupied by Russian forces in limbo while providing Ukraine with security guarantees to ensure that Moscow cannot attack again.
Spokespeople at the office of the Ukrainian president declined to comment. General Kellogg would continue to engage allies to help fulfil Trump’s promise to end the war, National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said.
The US president has also threatened Moscow with massive sanctions if it does not engage in talks.
Both Putin and Zelensky signalled that their previous refusal to talk to each other has softened as Trump’s plan approaches. In an interview late on Tuesday with television host Piers Morgan, Zelensky reiterated his readiness to talk to Putin to end the war, in the presence of Ukraine’s partners.
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I’m guessing it will be Russia keeps the territory that it currently holds and Ukraine nominally gets a security guarantee.
My expectation is that Russia will take more territory. It’s highly likely they will want to take Kharkov, Odessa, and Dnepropetrovsk at the very least. There is very little the US can do about that at this point. Whether Trump understands this or not is a different question though. What might happen is that Trump will float his deal, then Russia will reject it and he’ll just quietly pull aid from Ukraine at which point the problem will solve itself so to speak.
That must mean Infrastructure week is next week!
So he has the concept of a plan.
The plan itself he’ll make up half an hour before it’s due, and then spout off about how everyone agrees it’s the best plan ever. The fact that they knew sod all about it, is neither here nor there. It’ll give Trump a few more hours of air time, because that’s what he wants, to be the main news event every day.
What a tool.
Is it a concept of a plan?
The plan:
- Russia keeps everything up to and including Kyiv
- Ukraine gives the US exclusive access to its resources
- Ukraine agrees not to join NATO
- If they disagree, Trump directs funding to Russia
These things were always going to happen and anybody with a minimally functioning brain understood that this is how the war was going to end three years ago.
It will somehow be something shockingly worse than this. And then it will actually happen without any opposition.
- seaside resort
RemindMe! 10 days
The solution =
- give vague answers
- back track on everything you said in a few days or weeks
- keep fighting
- tell everyone you won
Watch as everyone shakes their hands, dance around, call you stupid and basically get mad and distracted while you go off and raid the government coffers for you and your friends.
“Trump” plan
Send all the Ukrainians to Gaza?
The US will take long term ownership of Ukraine and turn it into “the Riviera of Eastern Europe”
Tow Gaza to outside the environment?
Where all there is is sea and birds and fish.
There is no reason to consider the issuance of this office legitimate.
i thought the plan was to have Zelenskyy and Putin talk in a room… in moscow if I remember it right, then sort it out.
“peace through strength” is pretty much donvict doing the and now kith to both parties.
as with other people’s suggestions, i am not really placing any hopes on the grand reveal.
Good plans don’t need a medial warmup, they’re self-evident.
