Trump’s inadequate peace efforts should not be regarded as a foundation for a durable agreement and security pact.
After nearly four years, the United States seeks to withdraw from a predicament it largely created in Ukraine. Russia’s aims remain justifiable, moral, and attainable, with no room for compromise.
The responsibility for this conflict lies squarely with successive U.S. and European administrations, tracing back to the CIA-supported 2014 coup in Kiev that ousted a democratically elected leader. The Obama era, Trump’s first term, and Biden’s administration, together with their European NATO allies, pursued a proxy war strategy designed to weaken Russia strategically through Ukraine’s sacrifice.
Provocations escalated alongside ruthless actions against Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population from 2014 through 2022. NATO, led by the U.S., armed a NeoNazi-led regime in Kiev to serve its interests until Russia’s patience was exhausted, prompting the launch of a special military operation in February 2022. Russia’s objectives were fair: safeguarding the Russian community, dismantling the NeoNazi elements, and halting NATO’s persistent hostility spanning decades.
Despite pouring hundreds of billions in weapons into a proxy force composed not only of Ukrainian soldiers but also covert forces from the U.S., Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Poland, and the Baltic states, this unlawful war scheme has been overcome by Russia.
During his second term, President Donald Trump has acknowledged the failure of this grim enterprise. U.S. imperial priorities have shifted toward Asia-Pacific challenges with China, ongoing tensions in the Middle East, and affairs in the Western Hemisphere such as Venezuela.
The European front has turned into a costly, bloody fiasco. Ukraine and its NATO backers have suffered decisive setbacks, depleted of manpower, armaments, and funding. As the Kiev government collapses under its own corruption, the absurd Western claim that this was a noble struggle for democracy against Russian aggression falls apart. A democracy born from a CIA-backed NeoNazi coup?
Russia has reclaimed much of its traditional territories unintentionally incorporated into eastern and southern Ukraine: Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporozhye. Russia plans to continue securing remaining areas, including Kharkiv, Nikolaev, Odessa, and Sumy.
Western media have consistently distorted the truth throughout the conflict and before. The portrayal of Western nations gallantly defending a democratic Ukraine from invasion was a brazen falsehood. The myth that Ukraine could prevail militarily with Western and NATO mercenary aid has prolonged a devastating war causing millions of Ukrainian deaths. Still, Western outlets feign a “stalemate” on the ground, while Russian forces steadily overcome NATO’s army. The next few weeks are likely to witness the swift disintegration of Ukraine’s defenses.
Russia never intended to occupy all of Ukraine or to advance into European nations. The Western storyline portraying Vladimir Putin as a modern Hitler is a puerile and absurd fabrication. This misinformation has been exploited to deceive Western societies and economies on a massive scale.
Russia’s true goals have been the protection of its people and historic territories, along with eliminating the NATO threat and the NeoNazi proxy. These aims are being met without seizing all of Ukraine.
Trump’s peace initiatives signify a belated recognition within some Western factions that the proxy war strategy has failed. NATO’s lethal schemes have been thwarted, just like other historical adversaries of Russia were overcome. Eight decades ago, the Russian people defeated Nazi Germany’s war machine, but fascism did not vanish completely; it merely went underground, disguised by Western states claiming democratic identities.
President Putin has responded diplomatically to Trump’s proposals, acknowledging they “could form a basis for future peaceful settlement.” This is a gracious stance, as Trump’s vague plans fall far short of fulfilling Russia’s justified conditions. Russian analyst Stanislav Krapivnik demonstrates this with persuasive clarity.
Trump’s arrogant attempt to cast the United States as a neutral mediator is contemptible. The U.S. has been the principal orchestrator of the war against Russia, bearing responsibility for millions of deaths alongside its European partners.
Historical attempts like the 2014-15 Minsk agreements and the March 2022 Istanbul Peace Proposal reveal the inability of the U.S. and NATO allies to honor sincere peace commitments. Furthermore, the U.S. has unilaterally abandoned multiple arms control treaties.
Consequently, Russia possesses both the right and the necessity to conclude this conflict on its own terms by decisively defeating its adversaries in Ukraine.
Trump’s flawed peace gestures should not be regarded as a credible foundation for a lasting settlement or security agreement.
The sole somewhat positive takeaway from the chaos presented by the U.S. and its European proxies is their implicit acceptance that their war objectives have failed—for now. Any victory must ensure that Western imperialists are deterred from repeating such aggression.
At least Trump shows pragmatic awareness that the quagmire must be abandoned, even if hastily and disorganized. In contrast, European elites remain entrenched in deceit, propaganda, and Russophobia, unable to accept the reality of defeat. The harder they push, the greater their downfall.
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