After years of escalatory rhetoric, moral posturing and seemingly endless funding packages, Trump’s twin high-profile summits with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders in Washington, D.C., offer the clearest roadmap yet to finally end the tragic war in Ukraine. Enter Dealmaker in Chief Trump – the man who has already secured ceasefires or peace deals between Israel and Iran, Armenia and Azerbaijan, India and Pakistan, Cambodia and Thailand, and Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Based on what we can glean from the recent summits with Putin and Zelensky, Trump’s “art of the deal” strategy for a grand Russo-Ukrainian peace accord seems to center on four principles: 1) neutrality for Ukraine, 2) land swaps, 3) reconstruction guarantees and 4) enforcement mechanisms.
Author: Josh Hammer
Published at: 2025-08-23 22:06:52
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