On Thursday at a conference held in Washington by the Council on abroad Relations (CFR) Gen. Keith Kellogg presented Trump's administration strategy, which it guided in its approach to war. As he stated, America is abandoning existing approach where favored 1 of the partiesHe just wants to end the fight instead.
Pursuing the triumph of 1 side over another “would only service to bring America into Endless Replacement War (Proxy war), to the detriment of our own national safety interests," the retired general said.
The US wants a reset with Russia and a breakdown of the “global axis”
During the speech and later conversation with CBS writer Margaret Brennan stated that the U.S. goal is reset relations with Russiato break down Russia's “global axis”, China, Iran and North Korea.
"In president Trump's approach to this war besides exists Broader strategywhich is based on realizing that United States must reset relations with Russia," he said. "More isolation and deficiency of commitment to talks with Russia during the war in Ukraine are no longer feasible or sustainable and surely are not a liable approach diplomatic from the United States," he added.
Kellogg estimated that the area would be beneficial for all and will be an chance to “break up the axis we are presently seeing, which is global and which is real threat for the United States of America’.
Kellogg: The U.S. doesn't want 1 side to get the advantage
Referring to the break in military and intelligence support for Ukraine, Kellogg stated that Ukrainians "They brought it on themselves.", publically undermining president Trump's approach at a fresh gathering in 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 judged that Zelenski “He misread the situation” and wanted the United States to publically side with Ukraine against Russia. "This would negate the nonsubjective function of the peacemaker. president Trump, however, did not approach it in specified a way that One side gained an advantage over the other“ He added.
He compared Trump’s behaviour during the negotiations to president Theodore’s approach. Roosevelt, who was the mediator of the end of the 1905 Russian-Japanese War and received for this Nobel Peace Prize.
U.S. support cut-off as ‘muscle-boarding’
Kellogg admitted that stopping aid is painful for Kievbut compared it to "cutting the mule with a board in the nose“to get his attention.
Diplomat noted that break is temporary pausenot taking back support permanently. erstwhile asked what Ukraine had to do to reconstruct US aid, he replied that it had to supply a list of its conditions for ending the conflict. He besides assessed that he would personally "not decision forward" until he remained signed mineral contractBut he said it was up to president Trump.
Kellogg besides stated that Trump's administration is pushing more than just Ukrainebut besides makes ‘aggressive movements to put force on Russians”, while 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 had presented its list of conditions and Ukraine had not, suggesting that this was the reason for unilateral pressure. He assessed that Russia behaves more “reasonably”, than Ukraine, and its public declarations, among others, about the exclusion of abroad troops in Ukraine are only starting point to negotiate.
U.S. Trump rejects agreement with Istanbul. He wants to “work something completely new”
When asked about the presence of European stabilizing forces in Ukraine and American guarantees for these forces, Kellogg said that it is crucial to establish this, How precisely is this expected to work?
Speaking of the terms of a possible agreement, Kellogg He denied What the peculiar Envoy said earlier. Middle East, Steve Witkoffthat the agreement was based on the draft agreement presented during the negotiations in Istanbul in March 2022. Kellogg stated that this paper could be “the starting point” but assessed that his the conditions were unfair and placed in a situation of weakening Ukraine. They mentioned, among others, restrictions on the size of Ukrainian armed forces, exclusion of membership in NATO and position clearance Crimea In 10 years.
"I think we request to make something brand 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 can't go back 3 years.“ He said.
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