Posted on 02/07/2025 3:19:07 AM PST by marcusmaximus
President Trump is prepared to double down on US sanctions for Russia to bring about an end to its war on Ukraine, retired Gen. Keith Kellogg, his special envoy to the conflict, exclusively told The Post this week — but he knows both Kyiv and Moscow will have to make concessions to end the “industrial-sized” killing in Europe’s largest country.
Sanctions enforcement on Russia are “only about a three” on a scale of one to 10 on how painful the economic pressure can be, Kellogg said. The US sanctions themselves — such as those targeting Russia’s lucrative energy sector — are nominally twice as high, but there is still room to ratchet them up.
“You could really increase the sanctions — especially the latest sanctions [targeting oil production and exports,]” he said. “It’s opened the aperture way high to do something.
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Last Thursday, Trump gathered his “whole confirmed team” of advisers and cabinet members focused on national security — from Vice President JD Vance to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — in the Oval Office, where Kellogg said they discussed how to use all elements of national power to end the war.
“Solving the Russia-Ukraine war is really all hands on deck for the entire administration, so a whole-of-government approach,” the general said. “We got the national security team talking about it — the president, vice president, national security adviser, secretaries of State [and] Treasury, National Security Council, working all together.”
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While the president this week has floated possible deal-making with Ukraine over access to its rare earth elements critical to US national security, Kellogg said the president first “wants to stop the killing — just stop it — and then you go from there” on future negotiations.
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To what degree has Trump’s blockage of USAID’s money flows affected the ZEEPER community?
Q. To what degree has Trump’s blockage of USAID affected Ukraine?
A. The United States, through USAID, and in coordination with the Dept of the Treasury, the Dept of State, and the World Bank, is providing $3.9 billion in direct budget support to the Government of Ukraine. as of Aug 8, 2024
So the story is about increasing sanctions on Russia and the first two comments have nothing to do with the story.
Putinistas are getting desperate.
Kellogg is 80 years old, and SHOWS IT in that most of his generation still think that ABC/CBS/NBC never lie and are never getting funded by USAID.
There are enough people around Trump to keep Kellogg from doing harmful things to the country and I would expect him to go back to retirement once he gets around to finding out what Russia is willing to settle for.
There still Spamming.😉
You mean Zelensky still has a chance?
Your Momz is desperate. Doink!🐸
What might be the next SEVEN levels of sanctions? Or is this sales-speak.
Earlier this morning one found posted --
Trump has no official plan to end Russia's war against Ukraine, Zelensky says From Kyiv Independent, as posted to FR by Trump20162020, 2/7/2025, 4:23:28 AMSo "both Kyiv and Moscow will have to make concessions" says Kellogg. But the details....
Reading the comments after the NY Post article is suggested, to sample a broad range of opinion. And not one silly mention of a "putinista" among them, unlike this thread.
Wait till the kindergarteners wake up and start posting their artwork.
Pain, it's said, is relative,
Some gaping wounds are nicks.
And pressure in a leaky sieve
Is among the tricks of politics.
He shouldn’t have been named to the post to start with, of course.
“He shouldn’t have been named to the post to start with, of course.”
It’s almost like Trump wants to have a mini-Zeeper war in his administration. I agree, he could have done better.
sanctions on oil exports are unnecessary. By destroying refineries, pipe line junctions and port facilities, the task is already accomplished by the Ukranian drones
They’re mad because they thought President Trump was going to throw a victory parade for Putin instead of negotiating an end to the invasion.
More moronic imaginings from moronismaximus.
No one thought a parade was planned.
Asserting such is a limp-played hand.Exaggeration has turned quite bland,
And sources say responses canned
Are not debate but an ember fanned
Which never bursts into flames quite grand.Build back better on shifting sand,
For such is the lot of your snarky band.
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