Inside look: Trump team's unexpected ideas for Ukraine-Russia peace deal
Former presidents advisers propose unique solutions for ending Ukraine-Russia war‚ including territorial agreements and security deals. Three different plans show various ways to push both sides to negotiations
Donald Trumpʼs inner circle has developed several unique peace-plans for the Ukraine-Russia conflict that would change the regions map forever
The ex-presidents key advisers (Keith Kellogg‚ JD Vance‚ and Richard Grenell) suggest different ways to end the war — all of them include giving-up parts of Ukraine to Russia and stopping Kyivʼs path to NATO membership. Each plan has its own twist: from creating special zones to re-drawing borders
- Kelloggs plan wants to keep current battle-lines frozen
- Vances idea focuses on making strong border zones
- Grenell suggests making east-Ukraine self-governing areas
The situation on the ground shows why these ideas came up: Russia controls Crimea (taken about 10 years ago) and big chunks of eastern regions. Vladimir Putin seems to be in a good spot — heʼs taking more land while Volodymyr Zelenskiy deals with army shortages
Trump promises to fix everything in just one day after becoming president (which would be Jan 20th next year); however experts dont think its that simple. “Putin is in no hurry“ says Eugene Rumer from Carnegie think-tank‚ pointing out that Russian leader isnt showing any real interest in talks
The plans suggest using both rewards and pressure: giving Ukraine more weapons if it agrees to talk but stopping help if it doesnt. At the same time theyd warn Moscow about increased support to Kyiv if Russians reject peace talks (something that might be hard to do with Congress not liking the idea of more Ukraine aid)
