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On the campaign path, President Donald Trump He claimed that he could end the Ukraine war within a week, and critics were laughing. But as Trump said at his press conference with French President Macron, he is a man of deal.
In the middle of February, Trump launched a plan with President Voludmir Zelinski The development of rare Earth minerals in Ukraine. After some back and forth, Zelinski comes to Washington now to sign the deal. This is the first step in a greater agreement to end the Ukraine war.
Trump has taken an unprecedented war, found a way to end it, bring peace, prosperity and security for all.
The deal for the United States allows the access to the rare land minerals that affects it and helps us to recover some of our investments in the Ukraine war. Win us.
President Donald Trump, President of France, Emmanuel Macron (C), and Ukraine President Voludmir Zelinski, are putting before a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Elizi in Paris on December 7, 2024. (Photo by Sarah Mesison/AFP Swimming Pigeon/AFP via Getty Images))
It helps rebuild Ukraine's economy and infrastructure. It puts thousands of American engineers, miners, builders, and even bankers on the ground in eastern Ukraine, and they work as a security guarantee for Ukraine. A victory for Ukraine.
It gives the United States open to Better relationship with Russia With the aim of leading a wedge in the anti -American Russia coalition. A victory for the United States and our allies.
It gives Russia outside the slope to a difficult war and opens the possibility of improving relations with the United States, including in trade and investment. A victory for Russia.
First, Trump's plan depends on accepting reality. Because, despite its utmost effort and intentions, Ukraine loses war – slowly, brutally, but a loss, however.
President Joe Biden pledged to grant Ukraine “as much as it takes, as long as it requires” unrealistic “. This was not a war that Ukraine could win. It is a war of attrition and the one that the largest, richer and more populated countries won. Ukraine, the Europeans, and Piden did not have any way to victory, the best they could do was deprive Russian President Vladimir Putin. Therefore, they continued to fight another war forever. Trump's war plan ends – with no clear winners or losers.
Second, the Trump plan deals with the increasing frustration of Americans with hundreds of billions of military equipment and assistance we provided from Ukraine, a good percentage. We can recover some of our contributions by reaching rare ground minerals in Ukraine and other resources, which the United States needs but not local.
Third, the Trump plan pushes the Europeans to bear more burden for their defense. On a sharp face, European leaders are now wandering to the White House with pledges to increase their defensive budgets, to help pay the costs of rebuilding Ukraine, and even to provide peacekeepers.
Fourth, while Ukraine cannot win the war, Ukraine can win peace. The United States resources for Ukraine to develop Ukraine resources will put a large number of American engineers, miners, technicians and bankers on the ground in Ukraine, especially eastern Ukraine, where the largest part of the resources is.
A Russian missile strike site in Kiev, Ukraine, on February 12, 2025. At least one man was killed and four others were wounded, including one child. (Photography Maxym Marusanko/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
The American economic presence will be a guarantor of Ukrainian independence and security, and a deterrent to another Russian invasion. Putin will not kill thousands of American civilians to reach Kyiv.
In some respects, the American economic presence in Ukraine is more important than a military presence. As we saw with Biden and Afghanistan, the American president can order the sudden withdrawal of the military forces. Special American companies with long -term projects and contracts will be in Ukraine for a long time.
Under Trump's plan, five years after the fighting stopped, Ukraine could be a prosperous country, as the economy and society are completely combined with the United States and the West. On the other hand, the horizons of Russia after the war are dark. No one will rush to rebuild the Russian economy. Energy export revenues will decrease significantly, with global oil and natural gas decreased due to Trump's new policy of US energy dominance.
Finally, Trump's peace plan opens the possibility of an improved American relationship with Russia. We have not had any diplomatic contact with Russia in the three years since Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
It gives the United States open to a better relationship with Russia with the aim of leading a wedge in the Chinese Alliance against the United States. A victory for the United States and our allies.
Biden, Zelinski and the Europeans were that Putin could not be trusted to honor an agreement, so she is not concerned with one negotiation. According to them, anything less than the Ukrainian victory would reward Putin's aggression. Since victory was never a possibility, we continued to help Ukraine, and Ukraine continued to fight.
The greatest strategic and existential threat to the United States is not from Ukraine, the Middle East, or even Russia. It is from the Sino coalition Russia targeting the United States. Our refusal to speak to Russia over the past three years is one of the reasons why Putin has approached the eleventh Chinese president. In the early seventies of the twentieth century, my manager, Henry Kissinger, led a wedge between the Chinese anti -United States of Soviet alliance by opening relations with China. Trump is likely to be the same today, this time by re -relations with Russia.
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The American metal deal is the first step, but there is still a way to go before the final peace agreement. The Europeans and Zelinski insist that there should be a military “security guarantee” with the British and French forces in Ukraine.
Trump will not put the American forces in Ukraine, preferring to ensure economic security. The Russians extend to the NATO forces on their borders, even if they wear British and French uniforms. But all of these can be overcome, with some solid diplomacy and economic pressure. As President Trump says he is “a man of deal.” This is the art of the deal on the world stage.
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