Freddy Gray speaks to the Spectator’s Russia editor Owen Matthews about Trump’s plan for Ukraine. How much leverage does he have in negotiations with Putin? Plus, what does a Trump presidency mean for the future of NATO itself?
The implication of the White House leaks is that Mr. Trump might abandon Mr. Biden’s stalwart policy, but the truth is that the President is leaving Ukraine and Mr. Trump in a bad place.
So, Nato membership for Ukraine ‘will only prolong the war’, Foreign Policy concludes, and one could not agree more. ‘Neutrality may not be that bad for Ukraine’ – that is also true. The question is: why is the wise opinion confined to the fringes of the expert community, while Macron’s and Sikorski’s outlandish aggressive suggestions are the mainstream?
It’s time to acknowledge that the U.S. isn’t going to risk World War III to maintain Ukraine’s 1991 borders.
Former President Donald Trump is calling for peace negotiations in Ukraine and claims he could solve the war within “24 hours.” All other likely Republican presidential candidates disagree with his foreign policy approach.
The notion that Ukraine is fully guiding the policy is undermined by NATO’s intervention against peace talks last spring. And the idea that only Ukraine has an interest in the war ignores not just the fact of U.S. funding for it, but also the obvious point that global nuclear war — or any global war — is a concern not just for Russia and Ukraine.
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