Posted on 11/07/2024 8:54:11 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Donald Trump's dominant victory in this week's US presidential election has left politicians, captains of industry and military chiefs the world over scrambling to calibrate their approaches ahead of his return to office.
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A recent Wall Street Journal report citing three sources 'close to the president-elect' claimed that Trump's transition office is considering one proposal that would prevent Kyiv from joining NATO for at least 20 years in exchange for lucrative arms deals.
In the meantime, the conflict would be halted by the implementation of a large demilitarised zone (DMZ) that would effectively freeze the fighting in place and force Kyiv to relinquish up to 20% of its territory as part of an '800-mile DMZ'.
But the sources offered no insight into how such a buffer zone between Russia's border and unoccupied Ukraine would be monitored or managed, other than to say it would not be staffed by American peacekeepers.
'We can do training and other support but the barrel of the gun is going to be European... and we are not paying for it,' one source is quoted as saying.
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Probably all BS. But, I hope Trump keeps any plans about anything close to the vest, otherwise the rats will sabotage everything while they have power.
War = Dead youth and wasted treasure. Both are cornerstones of the leftists church. Think about it.
I would oppose any American force in the DMZ and so would the Russians.
If the 11 time zone country is convinced it needs a buffer zone between it and a NATO that’s not threatened to attack it for over 30 years, shouldn’t the buffer zone be on Russian territory not Ukraine’s?
Nobody else wants the iron curtain back.
Vance has been talking about the frozen conflict strategy for almost a year.
Not sure if I like this, but the war must end before it becomes WW3
1994 Budapest Memorandum. Ukraine shouldn’t have given up its nukes.
Ukraine shouldn’t have trusted Bill Clinton.
President Trump doesn’t need any distractions from his agenda. Especially with a GOP House and Senate. The next 2 years will be transformative if President Trump is able to fully implement his agenda.
I think this cant be right. At least the “800” mile buffer zone. That number just isnt right given the area in question.
I read somewhere that 8 in 10 Soviet men that were 19 years old in 1941 died fighting Germany.
Perhaps we should talk to the Russians before spinning fantasies about what they're going to ACTUALLY do.
Don’t bet against President Trump, Boris.
The three unnamed sources -- Wall, Street and Journal, whose unnamed sources were....
Putin has been holding off to see if Trump won. The only reason the war has dragged on so long is because he knew he could with weak Biden. When Trump stops the $$$$$, Z will also want peace.
The DC/London Axis has long wanted this, but for different reasons. They want a breather to rearm Ukraine. The DMZ “frozen conflict” they yearn for is all about supporting Ukraine.
They have Ukraine not accepting that Donbass and Crimea are gone forever, they want to use a pause to bring Ukraine into NATO or some kind of NATO lite status, then flood the place with weapons, missiles, build an Air Force etc.
This is the Minsk problem. Our side openly admits that was what that cease fire was about.
Trump is going to cut off Russia from selling its bloody oil so Russia can’t afford to fight any wars.
A buffer zone is meaningless in nuclear world.
They never had any nukes. Soviet nukes on that territory were never operationally controlled by Kiev. And thank god there is not a nazi bomb at the moment.
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