Trump And Ukraine

The consequences of the election are starting to emerge. And so far, they are not a surprise. Here is what President-Elect Donald Trump is proposing via Meduza:

The U.S. president-elect reportedly has yet to approve a specific plan to bring both sides to the negotiating table, but the WSJ’s sources say all the proposals on his desk break from the Biden Administration’s approach of letting Kyiv dictate when peace talks should begin.

According to the WSJ, the options before Trump uniformly recommend freezing the war, “cementing Russia’s seizure of roughly 20 percent of Ukraine” and forcing Ukraine to suspend its pursuit of NATO membership for at least 20 years. The war’s current front line “would essentially lock in place,” and both sides would agree to an 800-mile demilitarized zone guarded by European peacekeepers and no U.S. troops or soldiers from a U.S.-funded international body, such as the United Nations.

So, Trump intends to reward Russia by surrendering Sudetenland. Peace in our times only slowed down the process of a global war. Admittedly, some of that took time for Europe to arm up, but it still did not go well.

It was close. Millions died to defeat Nazi Germans and Italy—more in the Pacific with Japan.

By the way, with all this will come the end of sanctions. Maybe the return of Russian banks to…