Donald Trump’s commitment to end the war in Ukraine before Inauguration Day suddenly forces him to pick between competitor ideas from advisers who share a common thread—a sharp break from President Biden’s “as long as it takes” approach to arming Kyiv.
Throughout his 2024 US Presidential election campaign, Trump criticized Biden’s handling of Ukraine, arguing that it increased the likelihood of World War III and that Kyiv defrauded the United States by receiving weaponry worth billions of dollars for free. He stated that he could end the problem swiftly by bringing both parties to the negotiation table but did not specify how he would do it.
“I can’t give you those plans because if I give you those plans, I’m not going to be able to use them,” he said during the campaign. Trump hasn’t approved a specific peace plan
The team of Republican Donald Trump, who won the 2024 US election, is developing a new plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.
“We can train Ukrainian troops or provide other support, but the weapons supplied to Ukraine will be European. We are not sending American men and women to keep the peace in Ukraine and we are not paying for it. Make the Poles, Germans, English, and French do it,” the publication quotes one of the members of Trump’s team as saying.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump’s advisers want to create a demilitarized zone 1,300 km long along the real front line, while the US will not send its peacekeeping forces there. Ukraine must commit to not joining NATO for at least 20 years. In exchange for this, Washington will supply Kyiv with weapons to prevent a resumption of the conflict in the future.
