OPINION: Trump’s So-Called Peace Process – Facilitating Putin

Here is a brief summary of the misnamed Russian-American “peace process” regarding Ukraine.

• The US demands that Ukraine accept an immediate unconditional ceasefire. Ukraine agrees.
• Russia rejects any talk of such a ceasefire and instead asks for a halt on strikes on energy targets, an area where Ukraine is hurting Russia. The US agrees and Ukraine agrees.
• Russia within one day violates the terms of its own proposal, attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure along with other civilian targets. There is no US response.
• Meanwhile, Russia insists that the United States enforce on Ukraine Russia’s war aims, even though they are outrageous and even though Russia is not winning the war. The US agrees.
• The US also insists that Ukraine concede its mineral wealth in exchange for nothing at all.

This has not been a peace process. It has not even been appeasement. It has been the US throwing its power on Russia’s side in a war of aggression.

Reprinted from the author’s X (formerly Twitter) channel.

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