Trump's shoddy peace overtures are not to be taken as a basis for a lasting deal and security treaty.
After nearly four years, the U.S. wants out of a quagmire of its own making in Ukraine. Russia's objectives remain reasonable, righteous, and achievable. There is no compromising.
Successive American and European governments own this conflict, which can be traced back to the CIA-backed coup in Kiev in 2014 against an elected president. Obama, Trump's first administration, and Biden all promoted the proxy war scenario along with European NATO vassals for the calculated strategic defeat of Russia using Ukraine as cannon fodder.
The provocations accumulated with the genocidal aggression against the Russian-speaking people of Ukraine from 2014 until 2022. The U.S.-led NATO alliance weaponized a NeoNazi regime in Kiev to do its dirty work until Russia ran out of forbearance with the murderous treachery and launched its special military operation in February 2022. Russia's goals were just and right: to protect the Russian people; to denazify the regime; and to ensure that NATO's relentless aggression over several decades was brought to a definitive halt.
Despite expending hundreds of billions of dollars and euros on weaponizing a proxy army that comprised not only Ukrainian foot-soldiers but clandestine deployment of thousands of troops from the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Poland, and the Baltic States, among others, the criminal war gambit has been defeated by Russia.
President Donald Trump, in his second administration, has come to realize that the sordid game is up. American imperialist interests are demanding elsewhere in Asia-Pacific with China, the Middle East, and in the U.S. presumed "backyard" of Latin America, with Venezuela.
The European theater is a costly, bloody mess. Ukraine and its NATO sponsors have been roundly beaten. They have run out of men, weapons, and money. As the Kiev regime crumbles from the weight of its own corruption, so too is the preposterous Western narrative that this was some kind of noble cause to purportedly defend democracy from Russian aggression. Democracy born from a CIA-orchestrated NeoNazi coup?
Russia has secured most of the historic Russian lands that were formerly and artificially part of eastern and southern Ukraine: Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye. Russia will push on to secure the rest, including Kharkiv, Nikolaev, Odessa, and Sumy.
Western news media have been telling lies for the duration of this conflict (and long before that). The notion that Western states were chivalrously aiding a democratic Ukraine from aggression was an audacious inversion of reality. The notion that Ukraine could win militarily with Western support and NATO mercenaries has fueled a futile war with millions of Ukrainian casualties. Still, the Western media is pretending that there is "a stalemate" on the battlefield when in reality, the Russian forces are rolling up the NATO army. The next few weeks will see the rapid collapse of the Ukrainian defenses.
Russia never intended to occupy all of Ukraine, let alone continue onwards to conquer European states. The Western narrative is a ridiculous and puerile fantasy portraying Russian President Vladimir Putin as the reincarnation of Hitler. The fantasy has been used to defraud Western economies and the public on a gargantuan scale.
Russia's goals have always been to secure its people and historic lands and to eradicate the threat of NATO and its NeoNazi proxy. That is being achieved without having to conquer all of Ukraine.
Trump's peace overtures reflect a long-overdue realization in some Western quarters that the proxy war project has expired. NATO has been defeated in its murderous machinations in the same way that other historic enemies of Russia have been dispatched. Only eight decades ago, Nazi Germany's war machine was destroyed by the Russian people. But fascism was not fully destroyed. It only went underground in the form of Western states pretending to be democracies.
President Putin has responded diplomatically to Trump's initiatives by saying that they could form a basis for future peaceful settlement. This is magnanimous. Because very little in Trump's sketchy proposals comes close to meeting Russia's righteous demands. In fact, the American "plan" falls short of the serious conditions required by Russia, as Russian analyst Stanislav Krapivnik points out with devastating clarity.
Trump's conceited presumption to present the United States as a mediator is also contemptible. The United States has been the main architect of the war against Russia. It has the blood of millions on its hands, as have its European accomplices.
History has shown from the 2014-15 Minsk Accords and the Istanbul Peace Proposal in March 2022 that the United States and its NATO vassals are incapable of committing to an honorable agreement. Add to that several arms control treaties that the American side has unilaterally ditched.
Therefore, Russia has the right and indeed imperative to end this conflict on its terms through a decisive military defeat of its enemies in Ukraine.
Trump's shoddy peace overtures are not to be taken as a basis for a lasting deal and security treaty.
The one positive sign out of the shambles that the United States and its European lackeys are presenting is the tacit admission that their war plans are thwarted. For now, anyway. A victory must ensure that the Western imperialists never try it again.
At least Trump has a bit of practical sense to realize that the quagmire must be abandoned, albeit in a disorderly hurry. The European elites, however, are so invested in lies and propaganda and Russophobia that they can't even begin to face the reality of defeat. The harder they come, the harder they fall.