- Keith Kellogg criticized Ukraine for not agreeing to a mineral deal and publically questioning Donald Trump's actions against the conflict
- The U.S. expects Ukraine to list the conditions for the end of the war — Russia considers it more open to negotiations
- Emissary Donald Trump pointed out that the interruption in military and intelligence support for Ukraine is simply a temporary pause alternatively than a permanent withdrawal of support
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In his speech at a conference held in Washington, D.C. by the Council on abroad Relations (CFR), Kellogg outlined Trump's administration strategy, which is guided by its approach to war. As he stated, America abandons the current approach in which it favoured 1 side, alternatively it simply wants to end the fight.
Pursuing 1 side's triumph over the another "would only service to drag America into an endless replacement war, to the detriment of our own national safety interests," said a retired general.
During the speech and later conversation with CBS writer Margaret Brennan stated that The U.S. goal is to reset relations with Russia to break up Russia, China, Iran and North Korea's "global axis".
"Reset of relations with Russia"
— In president Trump's approach to this war there is besides a broader strategy, which is based on the realization that the United States must reset relations with Russia “He said. — Further isolation and deficiency of commitment to talks with Russia during the war in Ukraine are no longer a viable or balanced strategy and are surely not a liable diplomatic approach from the United States," he added.
He estimated that peace would be beneficial to all and would be an chance to "break up the axis we are presently seeing, which is global and which poses a real threat to the United States of America."
With mention to breaks in military and intelligence support for Ukraine, Kellogg stated that the Ukrainians “bred it upon themselves”, publically undermining president Trump's approach during a fresh gathering at the White House. He stated that he had clearly warned Zelenski about the consequences of not signing the agreement on minerals and publically questioning president Trump's actions.
He assessed that Zelenski "read the situation badly" and wanted the US to take a public stand on Ukraine's side against Russia.
— That would negate the nonsubjective function of the peacemaker. president Trump, however, did not approach this in specified a way that 1 side would gain an advantage over the other," he added.
He personally compared Trump's approach to the negotiations to the approach of president Theodore Roosevelt, who was the mediator of the end of the 1905 Russian-Japanese War and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kellogg admitted that stopping aid was painful for Kiev, but compared it to "sharing the mule with a board in his nose" to draw his attention.
Gen. Kellogg on halting aid to Ukraine
Diplomat noted that break is simply a temporary pause, not a permanent withdrawal of support. erstwhile asked what Ukraine had to do to reconstruct US aid, he replied that it had to pass on a list of its conditions for ending the conflict. He besides assessed that he would personally "not decision forward" until the agreement on minerals was signed, but pointed out that it was up to president Trump.
Kellogg besides stated that Trump's administration was pushing not only Ukraine, but besides making "aggressive movements to put force on the Russians", listing sanctions and freezing Russian assets. However, erstwhile he was informed that these actions had been taken by the erstwhile administration, the diplomat stated that Russia has presented its list of conditions, and Ukraine does not, suggesting that this is the origin of unilateral pressure. He estimated that Russia behaved more “reasonably” than Ukraine, and its public declarations, among others, about the exclusion of abroad troops in Ukraine are only the starting point for negotiations.
When asked for presence European stabilisation forces in Ukraine and the American guarantees for these forces, Kellogg said it was crucial in this substance to find precisely how it should look.
Speaking about the terms of a possible agreement, Kellogg denied what was previously said by peculiar Envoy for the mediate East, Steve Witkoff, i.e. that the agreement would be based on the draft agreement presented during the negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022. Mr Kellogg stated that this paper could be a "point of departure", but assessed that its conditions were unfair and placed in a situation of weakening Ukraine. They spoke, among others, of restrictions on the size of Ukrainian armed forces, the exclusion of NATO membership and the determination of Crimean position in 10 years.
— I think we request to make something completely new," Kellogg said. — Even if Ukraine agreed to any of the conditions at the time, you must look at the time frame erstwhile it was done... We gotta get back to today. We cannot go back 3 years, he said.
