Summary

Donald Trump’s advisers are proposing plans to end the Ukraine war that involve territorial concessions to Russia and ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine.

These proposals aim to pressure both sides into negotiations, leveraging military aid as a carrot or stick. Plans include freezing current battle lines or creating demilitarized zones.

Analysts doubt the feasibility, citing likely resistance from Ukraine, European allies, and U.S. lawmakers.

Trump’s approach reflects his campaign pledge to resolve the conflict quickly, but critics argue it risks legitimizing Russian aggression and undermining Western alliances.

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    For Ukraine, only NATO membership makes sense to end the war.

    There is literally nothing else that can prevent Russia from invading. They broke their word in 2014, then again in 2022, without NATO membership, Ukraine will just get invaded again and again by Russia until it’s a satellite state or fully annexed.

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    8 hours ago

    Yeah at this point i think NATO doesn’t give a fuck about the US of A anymore. Maybe when somebody that is normal becomes president again. Really fuck Trump, little bootlicking orange.

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    So essentially his plan to “end the war” is to force Ukraine into submitting to all of Russia’s demands?

    He couldn’t be much more overtly in bed with Russia if he tried… Might as well just wait for the photos to leak of him in a rather grotesque threesome with Elon and Putin at this point.

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    14 hours ago

    President Zelenskyy could have ended the war many months ago if he’d just agreed to all of Putin’s demands. Who knew?

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      But then Russia would just be forced to invade some more later because they simply can’t help themselves. So Zelensky should do the right thing and hand over all of Ukraine so that Russia doesn’t have to go through so much trouble again. All the Baltics and EU should do the same so poor old Putin can finally take a nice vacation.

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    If he’s claiming he’ll drop the US out of NATO, why does he think his (concept of a) plan, for the alliance that he hates, has any weight at all? Fucking dipshit.

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    Wow, what a fucking horrible idea. Not only will this fail to end the conflict quickly but it all but guarantees another one. Let’s hope Ukraine’s other allies are up to the task if Trump actually tries to follow through with this dogshit plan.

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    14 hours ago

    Translation: Trump handing over territory to his butt-buddy separated at birth Putin.

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      You say that, but without the US military support it will be rough for Ukraine. The EU has spent a bunch of money to get all other kinds of aid to Ukraine, much more than the US. But the US has supplied more military support, more than the EU. If the US stops helping out, the EU will probably not be able to fill the gap. And Trump can put pressure on the EU by threatening to pull out of Nato again. If Russia decides to invade more countries and the US leaves Nato hanging, the EU is in trouble. Now these are a lot of ifs and since Trump has been elected the EU has been preparing. Plus laws have been passed in the US to prevent Trump from pulling out of Nato, but you know how much Trump cares about laws. Once the EU feels like they don’t need the support from the US any more, Trump has nothing to say anymore, but we ain’t there yet.

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        But the US has supplied more military support, more than the EU.

        The US has supplied a lot of aid, and aid that cannot be obtained from elsewhere, but in terms of volume, the EU has gradually passed it by.

        Sadly, it seems unlikely that the EU can ramp up weapons industries much faster. Ukrainians themselves have stated that without US assistance, they would run a serious risk of losing the war.

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    Trump: if Ukraine refuses my plan, I turn off the tap of $/weapons to you! if Russia refuses my plan I send tons of shitload of weapons to Ukraine!

    EDIT: it is written in the article

    halting military aid to Kyiv unless it agrees to talk but boosting assistance if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses.

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      I don’t get why you are being downvoted. That is exactly what his position is, which would be clear to anyone who actually read the article.

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        I don’t know too, it is the exact plan of Trump, either stop delivering weapons to Ukraine, or increase delivery

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    No, you see we need to fight Russia to the last drop of Ukrainian blood. Every Ukrainian man, woman, and child must be sacrificed and the whole of Ukraine sold for scrap then reduced to toxic, landmine-ridden wastes, unfit for human habitation.

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      Giving Ukraine the necessary arms doesn’t force them to keep fighting.
      It just allows them to decide when they want to stop.

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          That’s true in every war ever. Still, Ukraine is a sovereign nation. The Russian talking point that “The West” is fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian man is nonsense.
          Ukraine is fighting, and the Ukrainian government decides how long.

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              nothing Russia might do is worse than the millions displaced, livelihoods destroyed, hundreds of thousands dead that we’re seeing

              The millions displaced, livelihoods destroyed, hundreds of thousands dead is BECAUSE RUSSIA CHOSE TO INVADE.

              Removed for misinformation/Russian propaganda.

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              hmm, I wonder who represents the will of the Ukrainian people in your opinion…
              and knows what’s best for them…
              and is trying his hardest to liberate the country from its democratically elected government, so the people can finally live in Russia I mean Freedom!

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                Russia being shit doesn’t make the other country run by a billionaire who sold its state assets for pennies on the dollar and sent an entire generation to die in a meatgrinder good.

                That war (between capitalist powers) is bad for the people and good for oligarchs shouldn’t be a controversial take.

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              failed to end the civil war,

              It’s not a civil war if “separatists” get weekly weapons, fuel and food convoys from Russia, and the whole thing was started by GRU agents, and requires thousands of Russian troops. That was the case approximately from 2014 to 2022. I have a prejudice against people who refer to the Russian-backed insurgency in Eastern Ukraine as a “civil war”. It typically tells of which information sources they prefer and consume.

              A prolonged war is the absolute worst case scenario for the people living in Ukraine and former Ukrainian territories

              Every war is prolonged as long as armies are willing and able to fight, and politicians don’t make peace.

              The easiest way to get a sustainable peace is simple: Putin needs to withdraw troops from Ukraine. Alas, he’s not in the mood - not yet. But he regularly orders polls and reads results, and has some understanding of how Russia’s economy is doing. He could be in the mood within a year.

              Compared to supporting Ukraine through another year of fighting to obtain a lasting peace at acceptable terms (ideally: internationally recognized borders), making an unstable and unjust peace by undermining Ukraine (so they’d cave in and agree to an unjust peace in the minimum amount of time) might not be the best option.

              Unfortunately it looks that Trump is going to try exactly that. And there’s hardly anyone in the US who can alter the outcome. Other members of NATO can alter the outcome however, by (almost) doubling their support.