Trump’s campaign office does not accept information collected by The Washington Post from Trump aides.
American The Washington Post magazine has asked the former president of the country Donald Trump’s from those close to him, what kind of plan he has to end the war in Ukraine.
Trump has often threatened that he could negotiate a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine in a day if he is re-elected president. He has said that he will bring about peace even before taking office again. However, Trump has not specified his thoughts.
In May of last year, Trump said in an interview with the news channel CNN to achieve peace in 24 hours. When Trump was asked how he would do this, he replied that he was going to meet with the leaders of both countries, Russia Valdimir Putin and Ukraine to Volodymyr Zelensky.
– They both have weaknesses and strengths. Within 24 hours it would be agreed, the war would be over, Trump assured.
In March In the America First speech (America First) Trump described his plan.
– We have to get them both [Putin ja Zelenskyi] to the same place, and I say that “you have to do this thing and you have to do that thing”. We put them together and make a deal and that’s it.
Territorial cessions by Ukraine?
Most of the people who told the Washington Post about it appear anonymously in the story. They tell the newspaper that Trump told them privately that the war could end if Ukraine was pressured to hand over some land to Russia. According to Trump, joining Russia would be “okay” for some Ukrainians.
Trump has had in mind the final handing over of Crimea to Russia, as well as Eastern Ukraine. The agreement would include that Ukraine would no longer apply for NATO membership. Russia, on the other hand, promises to distance itself from China’s sphere of influence, say the people interviewed by the newspaper. They have talked about this model with Trump and his aides.
The horror of Ukraine
If the newspaper’s information is correct, Trump would be ready to give up the presidency Joe Biden about the policy of supporting Ukraine to maintain its geographical territory.
International law experts do not accept the transfer of state borders by force. However, Russia has already made its own administrative decisions according to which the regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson belong to it, although it has not even occupied them completely. It has declared Luhansk and Donetsk as independent people’s republics.
For the leadership of Ukraine, these thoughts are outrage, as well as Trump’s Russia-friendly line. So are many Trump supporters, such as the vice president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank James Carafanoconsider them “stupid”.
The Republican senator who turned from Trump’s supporter to his critic Lindsey Graham says he used “one hundred percent of the time he spent with Trump to explain the Ukraine issue”.
Trump’s former Russia expert Fiona Hill is saddened by the fact that, in his opinion, Trump’s campaign does not see the wider significance of the war in Ukraine. According to Hill, Trump’s team considers the war only a regional dispute, and does not see its decisive importance for European security or the world order based on law.
Trump’s campaign organization knocks down The Washington Post’s story. According to the campaign release, the magazine’s anonymous and uninformed sources have no idea what Trump is up to.