Posted on 11/27/2024 10:20:09 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Retired Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, who was chief of staff on former President Donald Trump’s national security council, spoke with VOA about his vision for ending the war in Ukraine.
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U.S. should begin a formal policy "to seek a cease-fire and negotiated settlement of the Ukraine conflict." The U.S. would continue to arm Ukraine to deter Russia from attacking during or after a deal is reached, but under the condition that Kyiv agrees to enter into peace talks with Russia.
To persuade Russia to participate in the negotiations, the U.S. and other NATO partners would delay Ukraine's membership in the alliance for an extended period in exchange for a "comprehensive and verifiable deal with security guarantees."
They write that Ukraine will not be asked to give up its ambition to regain all land seized by Russia, but Kyiv should agree to use diplomatic means only and realize that it might take a long time to regain all the territories. The strategy proposes to use the partial lifting of sanctions on Russia to encourage the Kremlin to take steps toward peace and establish levies on Russian energy imports to fund Ukraine's reconstruction.
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VOA: Ukrainian officials might be cautious about entering into the negotiations with Russians because it might send a signal to their partners that they don't need military aid anymore.
Kellogg: You have to give more arms to them because you can't trust the Russians.
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VOA: One of the reasons why the negotiations in Istanbul broke down was that Russians demanded Ukraine’s demilitarization, a smaller army.
Kellogg: Yes. And this is an unacceptable demand. And you don't walk into negotiating with unacceptable demands.
(Excerpt) Read more at voanews.com ...
And sending the drunk vice-prostitute KamaLOL! over to Munich to bleat dumb cr@p about Ukraine getting into NATO was the glove-slap challenge to a duel.
This guy is nuts. None of that is going to happen. Ukraine never needs to be in NATO. And we dont need to keep arming them up. Putin isn’t giving back ground or not much of it. Not after losing all those troops and hardware.
Self sky could have settled this very quickly in the beginning but the EU pulled him off the negotiating table.
No victory parade for Shoigu, either.
I didn't know that Ukraine ever actually became a member of NATO. According to all of my searches online, it isn't ...
He had enough fun trolling you, spamus.
Russia would return their land if they completely surrender? Russia does not work that way, never has.
This is a good plan so long as sanctions are kept in place on Russia during the cease fire and negotiations.
Let’s do this: Russia stops buying weapons from Iran, China and North Korea. Russia gives all the land they have invaded back to Ukraine. Russia needs to pay for new infrastructure they destroyed and cut back their militaries to only 50,000 members.
Turn Putin over to the IC Court...and turn over all their nukes to India.
;^)
I am concerned about Gen. Kellogg's prior position with Mike Pence.
“Let’s do this:”
Ha ha, you again. You and what army? “Let’s” the good old royal “us”, meaning get the USA to do it for you. Ukraine isn’t worth the life of a single one of our kids.
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