During the 2016 presidential campaign and the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump at the time repeatedly told the American people they would win very well, saying he was “fed of winning.”
Who would have thought America would be “farious of winning” early in Trump's second term?
That certainly seems to be the case with the US, which supports its victory plan in Ukraine. Russia has decided on terms, but the Trump administration appears to be obliged to complete the deal. Team Trump is dangerously out of sync and will either desperately need a reset or risk playing the role of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A month after Trump's second term, his administration already “bends his knee” to Putin on three important demands, and legitimacy during negotiations with Ukrainian President Voldy Mirzelensky and existence, and Four illegal and partially occupied mergers September 2022 – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporisia, Herson – Crimea in March 2014.
And negotiations have not yet begun seriously. It doesn't win – it's a surrender and also known as a loss.
As we warned last week, Team Trump appears to have been lost in its own “fog.” The nasty and wise concessions have resulted in an inexplicable, comprehensive White House mindset.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegses saidUkrainian Defense Liaison GroupOn February 12th in Brussels, “We must start by realizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 border is an unrealistic purpose. …The United States is a member of NATO in Ukraine. I don't think that the ship is a realistic result of the negotiated settlement. …There are no US troops deployed in Ukraine.”
Keith KelloggTrump's envoy to Ukraine doubled Hegses' “unrealistic purpose” comment, adding, “I think there is a certain agreement on the potential loss of the territory.” It was as if the Trump administration was negotiating with itself.
Putin was already feeling the blood underwater. During an interview with state television channel Rossiya 1 on January 28th,He repeatedHis claim that Zelensky was “illegal” and that he had no right to sign documents in potential peace negotiations. The Russian president said, “We can hold negotiations with anyone, [Zelensky’s] He has no right to sign anything. ”
Then, on February 15, sensing the weakness of Washington, he repeated the false Kremlin story in an interview with Victor Medvevenchuk, a former Ukrainian parliamentary congress of Proputin in Moscow. .Zelensky's Illegality. The next day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov doubled the message, saying, “Ukraine has no sovereignty.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, along with US envoys to national security advisers Michael Waltz and Middle East Steve Witkov, will also serve as Russian assistant to Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and President Russia Yushkhakov and Saudi Arabia's President Yuri Ushakov. A bilateral meeting with the government has begun. Arabia, Tuesday. The goal is to end the war in Ukraine. However, Zelensky, Kellogg, European Leaders and NATO.
It is difficult to negotiate to end the war when the country invades and the NATO alliance supporting its defense is not represented at the table.ZelenskyIf Ukraine does not participate in those negotiations, he told NBC's “Meet the Press” on Sunday that he “will not accept any decisions between the US and Russia regarding Ukraine.”
Certainly, this was just an opening round – aCondition SetterFor future discussion. But negotiations aren't just about what is in America's greatest interests. That's the recognition Rubio's comments“The United States is ready to engage Kiev and European partners in the reconciliation process at a later stage” only strengthens its narrative.
Organizing the terms to your allies is a bad look. Team Trump should have learned that lesson from the Biden administration's deal with Ukraine and Israel.
Election instructionsIn Ukraine, after the peace agreement is signed, it must be a non-starter. It only examines Russia's allegations that the Ukrainian government is illegal.
How does the US guarantee that Russia will not try to influence elections in order to deploy a pro-Russia government? To understand this threat, you simply look at recent elections in Moldova, Georgia, and perhaps in the United States.
Russia wantedAdditional concessionsDuring their first meeting. “Moscow will not accept the deployment of Ukrainian NATO forces, even if they are underneath,” Lavrov told the American delegation.
Given all of the above, it appears that Team Trump is dealing with Putin's demands for negotiations. Putin sets conditions to win. Team Trump is rushing to conclude the war, whatever the cost, and “stop the killing.”
However, strategic costs are high. The United States is a founding member of NATO. This is a defensive alliance formed to stop Russian invasions in Europe. Trump's “America First” mantra does not mean NATO, Ukraine or Europe's second. From a national security standpoint, the two go together.
it wasGeneral George Patton“Americans will love winners and will not tolerate losers.” Americans always play to win. “Team Trump is on the path to losing in Ukraine. The final state is to throw Ukraine and Europe under the bus to stop the war against difficult rights and difficult rights that allow you to win the war, in this case it becomes easy wrong cannot.
Trump doesn't have any business either Condemnation of NATO or Ukraine For the war in the first place, as he did on Tuesday evening. That's not winning. It is the actions of the losers borrowed from the president's own vocabulary.
There was no plan to win the war in Ukraine. Not under the Biden administration, and by some Trump administration, it's not drafted, and not drafted. Throwing money, weapons and ammunition into the matter without a plan only extended the war that Ukraine could still win.
Putin is his absolute weakness, but Team Trump has forgotten a peace plan that benefits Russia alone and threatens the long-term security of Ukraine and Europe.
The war may cease, but the killings continue. Russia erases Ukrainian identity by different means.
Colonel (ret.)Jonathan SweetHe served as an Army Military Intelligence agent for 30 years. Mark TossI write about national security and foreign policy.
