"I would like this to end for humanitarian reasons. This is simply a ridiculous war," the president stated. Trump besides said that Ukraine should "protect" the spending Washington has allocated to aid to Kiev (as though $300 billion), giving the United States its uncommon metallic resources. Zelenski is ready to talk about it. He announced that his country is ready to make available US uncommon earth deposits and underground retention facilities for LNG in exchange for safety guarantees.
Security Conference
The yearly safety Conference with the participation of Heads of State and Government will be held in Munich on 14 and 16 February. Bloomberg Agency reported that during this gathering a peculiar lawyer for the president of the United States, a retired general Keith Kellogg, will present the American plan to end the war. It provides for the conflict to be frozen. Russia will hold captured Ukrainian territories, but their state will not be determined. Kiev will receive safety guarantees so that Putin cannot make a fresh raid. According to any information, Ukraine is to defend global peacekeeping forces. However, it is not known who would set up specified troops. Trump surely won't do that. British generals lament that they would gotta send almost the full army of their country.
Negotiation without Ukraine?
Keith Kellogg, by the way, has denied media coverage. He said that he would not present the peace plan, but president Trump would, and surely not next week. After the Munich conference Kellogg intends to go to Kiev. Head of the Office of president Zelenski Andrij Jermak informed that Trump's lawyer would then get full information on the situation in the field of combat, Ukrainian mobilization, losses suffered. president Zelenski and his colleagues fear that the president of the United States will negociate peace with Putin without their participation. The most crucial question is, will the Kremlin bully always decide to make authoritative talks? The Russian economy is at last crumbling, but on the front of Putin's solstice they are moving on, and material and human resources Ukraine is moving out.
“In the West, there was an thought that Putin wanted to scope an agreement and end the war. This is not the case," said the Russian political scientist Fyodor Lukjanov, president of the abroad and Defence Policy Council. Washington may exacerbate economical restrictions on Moscow, but it is certain that they will not work immediately.
Bad scenario
If the Russian dictator agrees, he'll surely set tough conditions. It can be expected that Russia will halt all the taken territories, not pay compensation, sanctions against it will be abolished, war criminals will not be punished, doors to NATO will stay closed to Ukraine. As the Russian emigration polytologist writes Władysław InoziemcewSuch an end of war will mean the strategical defeat of the West.
