A Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine

WSJ ^ | 25-JUL-2024 | David J. Urban and Mike Pompeo

[SpeedyInTexas]

Pundits claim that if Donald Trump is re-elected, he will cut off aid to Ukraine, give away its territory, and deal directly with Vladimir Putin to impose an ignominious “peace” on the country.

There’s no evidence that such capitulation will be part of President Trump’s policy and much evidence to the contrary. It was Mr. Trump who in 2017 lifted the Obama administration’s arms embargo on Ukraine, providing it with the Javelin missiles that helped save Kyiv in the earliest days of Russia’s invasion. More recently, Mr. Trump gave political cover to House Speaker Mike Johnson when he maneuvered to pass additional military aid. Helping Ukraine while revitalizing the American defense industrial base in Alabama, Pennsylvania and Virginia is good policy—and good politics.

The Biden administration’s weakness has left Ukraine where it is today: two years into a full-scale war, with cities destroyed, hundreds of thousands killed, and millions of refugees, and without the means to win. The White House has no strategy for victory, and Americans are rightly concerned.

[SpeedyInTexas]

Archived version: https://archive.ph/ZJwc7

[JonPreston]

Pompeo is a 🐀. Don’t trust anything he says.

[PGR88]

silly article.

Its a neocon fantasizing that Trump will double-down on Biden’s stupidty.

[SpeedyInTexas]

Would Pompeo put this ‘peace plan’ out there without Trump’s approval?

Seems unlikely.

[SpeedyInTexas]

He’s not a neocon.

He served in the first Trump admin.

“Michael Richard Pompeo is an American politician who served in the administration of Donald Trump as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2017 to 2018 and as the 70th United States secretary of state from 2018 to 2021.’

[Sacajaweau]

Best SOS since Jefferson.

Put a line in...just like Korea...and stop this stupid war...which began as a Civil War.

[Who is John Galt?]

[McGruff]

Mike Pompeo, never listen to that war monger.

[Chewbarkah]

Yep. The article presents a war plan with no peace in sight.

[Dan in Wichita]

Trump trusts Pompeo. That’s why he was asked by Trump to speak about foreign policy at the RNC convention.

[Allegra]

“I wish I knew how to quit you.” {lusty sigh}

[MinorityRepublican]

Yeah right. Pompeo is former CIA. He’s Deep State. I doubt Trump trusts him.

[Dan in Wichita]

Why was Pompeo asked by Trump to speak about foreign policy at the RNC convention if he did not trust him? This was Trump’s convention and NO ONE got on stage who was a MAGA enemy.

[MinorityRepublican]

“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”

[Dan in Wichita]

What a ridiculous non-reply reply. You should be ashamed of yourself by offering such a weak defense of your position.

Mike Pompeo was my congressman for years. During that entire time, he displayed nothing but common-sense conservatism. Trump picked him to be CIA Director because of his military experience and service on the House Intelligence Committee. He wasn't there very long before being promoted to SOS. After J6, he was one of the few cabinet members who remained loyal and did not resign in fear.

If we are blessed to have another Trump administration, expect Pompeo to be placed in a high position.

[MinorityRepublican]

I don’t have enough evidence but I still don’t trust him.

[dforest]

He never cared about Trump’s approval before.

Trump wants the war ended and Pompeo can go to hell.

[Robert DeLong]

You are naive.

[dforest]

Trump didn’t ask him or Nikki to do anything.