Posted on 11/28/2024 5:58:53 PM PST by RandFan
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Keith Kellogg, a former national security adviser and retired lieutenant general in the US military, to be special envoy to Ukraine and Russia in his second administration.
Kellogg is likely to be at the centre of negotiations to end the ongoing war in Ukraine, should Russia and Ukraine agree to take part.
Trump has promised to stop the war on his first day back in office - though he has not provided any details on how he plans to do that.
Kellogg has advocated for tough negotiations with Russia and Ukraine in order to bring the war to an end.
Earlier this month, in an interview on Fox News - where he has been a paid contributor since 2022 - Kellogg specifically noted that the war would be the "biggest thing" Trump has to solve in his second administration.
Kellogg's ideas for how to do this have been outlined in a research paper published by the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think thank.
In the document, published in April, Kellogg advocated for "a formal US policy to seek a ceasefire and negotiated settlement of the Ukraine conflict".
He proposed that Ukraine would only get further US aid if Kyiv participated in peace talks with Moscow, but also suggested that if Moscow refused to take part, Washington would then give Kyiv more aid.
Co-authored with Fred Fleitz, who like Kellogg, served as a chief of staff on Trump's National Security Council during his first presidency, the paper said Russia could be convinced to negotiate if the US promised to "put off" Ukraine's Nato membership for an extended period of time.
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This isn’t the first time I’ve see today where democrats are asking why Trump hasn’t ended it yet
I have been assuming from the start that the war will end with something like this.
The war may be over before Trump takes office.
Well, if there’s someone who knows how to deal with flakes...
(Sorry, that was corny.)
The 31 dwarves of NATO must not drag us into their WW3 project. The Eurotrash are totalitarian mad dogs.
“...democrats are asking why Trump hasn’t ended it yet...”
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‘Wouldn’t surprise me if Trump’s efforts are already in motion.
Soon, I expect one of Kellogg’s “Puff pieces”.
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