Alex Berenson: Trump's crafty deal can end the war in Ukraine, but the Trump war in the media continues

“Trump is putting pressure on Ukraine to embrace a peace plan that is sharply supportive of Russia.”

So, the New York Times warned a week ago when the White House said Ukraine and Russia needed to quickly create peace. Slate has gone further after reaching MSNBC level crazy liberals.

I have a sharp support for Russia! Give Russia everything it wants! We're back in 2016. Donald Trump is an agent of the modern Manchurian candidate, Kremlin.

One problem. These headlines aren't even close to what the Trump administration is proposing. (I know, you're in shock.)

In fact, the more I read and think about the proposal for a ceasefire, the more I was impressed with President Tuck, Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

They walk on a very narrow tightrope walk. If they can manage it, they would deserve great praise. Praise of Nobel Peace Prize Type. However, the Kremlin freezes before King Charles XVI of Sweden places the medal around Trump's neck.

Ukrainian Signs are “committed to the peace process” with Trump's managers to provide access to rare minerals.”

Let's start with some unpleasant facts. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a traditional grab for land by a murderous dictator. In a perfect world, the Ukrainians rose up, ousted the Russian troops with boomerangs, and rode them in the sunset.

But in this world, China has put one million Uyghurs in outdoor detention camps and no one is squatting. Viruses will go to the virus, and great powers will become a great force. Even the power of addiction if they have nuclear weapons and a right (aka false) attitude.

In this world, after the first burst of 2022, Ukraine has slowly and steadily lost territory for the past two years despite massive US aid. Russia has four times the population of Ukraine, and there are leaders who are not facing domestic constraints that prevent him from losing as many men as he thinks he needs.
Europeans talk good games about help, but they have no military or political will to do more than speak for 80 years. This war is just the latest evidence. Have you noticed Vandeswale, the forefront of Ukraine? me too.

Therefore, Ukraine needs the US.

And the United States elected a president who did not believe this war was a good idea.

President Trump wants peace. The left says he wants peace because he hates Zelensky and wants to build the Trump Tower Remlin. Rights says he wants peace because he is tired of sending American taxes so that Ukrainian and Russian boys can kill each other.

I, I'm not going to guess. I don't think his heart is much less what is in our president's mind.

This is what I know. Peace simply giving the Russians months is not peace.

This is another thing I know. The Trump administration knows that too.
The administration has not fully released its ceasefire proposal publicly (a sensible move and a sign that it is serious rather than playing a political game). However, as the administration had undoubtedly expected, details are leaked.

And the most important element of this is something that the media barely mentions. The proposal does not include restrictions on the size of the Ukrainian military, as the Russian government had hoped. It was a non-starter for Ukraine, the true red line.

The proposal also does not require Zelenskyy to stop or hold free elections as far as we know.

Also, Ukraine and other countries need not recognize that the Crimea is part of Russia (although it clearly expands its perception of America).

So why does the left scream?

First, the transaction holds the frontline in place. This means that Russia will continue to occupy the territory it currently occupy.

So Trump…waits for it… rewards aggression! He is allowing Putin to redraw European borders! (Well, one border of one country that even most Europeans could not find on the map.)

Yeah. He's certainly true.

Newsflash: Putin is not voluntarily giving up on the territory where hundreds of thousands of men have died. And Ukraine can't make him. Therefore, a ceasefire is necessary.

What exactly does a critic suggest? Newsflash: Putin is not voluntarily giving up on the territory where hundreds of thousands of men have died. And Ukraine can't make him. Therefore, a ceasefire is necessary.
It's not uncommon for an armistice to keep the frontline in place. For example, at the end of the Korean War. After Putin's death, the new Russian regime will ultimately retreat eastern Ukraine, and will pull back. For a while, the battle and killings ceased.
Secondly, the United States clearly promises to recognize Crimea as Russia's territory. Humanity!

Crimea has been a Russian territory since 1783, and when Catherine the Great annexed it, until 1954 when Soviet leader Nikola Khrushchev moved from Russia to Ukraine. Certainly, 1954 sounds a bit ago – except that in 1954, both Russia and Ukraine were part of the Soviet Union.

In other words, Khrushchev's transfer made no practical difference. The Kremlin was a Soviet ruler and still controlled the territory, and did so until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Therefore, between 1783 and 2014, Crimea was under Moscow's control for 208 years, with Kiev at 23.

Does this mean that Crimea belongs to Russia? I don't know.

Steve Witkov meets Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg (Reuters)

What I know is that when Russia took Crimea (back) in 2014, no one else in the US nor anyone else rushed to Ukrainian aid. The Crimea is strategically essential to the Kremlin. Because Sebastopol's port is the only warm port in Russia. For Russia, it is far more important than Russia has seized since 2022, and even after Putin is gone, Russia is not going to give up without a fight.

And again, the Trump administration has not said that Ukraine must accept the takeover as part of the peace deal.
Third, critics have whined that the proposal includes a ban on Ukraine from joining NATO. This objection is really stupid. Even before the war, Ukraine had been in NATO for decades.

So, to review: The deal proposed by the Trump administration does not require Zelensky to quit. Ukraine allows it to maintain its ability to fight, and does not require it to give up territory that has not yet been lost.

In return, Russia maintains Crimea and other territories it has already seized. And it could remove sanctions – sanctions that have been proven to be ineffective in their behavioral changes.

I think this proposal lacks a “sharp support for Russia.”
It's no wonder the Kremlin hasn't jumped on it despite public praise for Trump.

On that general admiration: Putin needs victory if he tries to create peace. Meanwhile, after three years of commitment to kicking out the Russian troops, Zelensky needs someone to blame for the fact that he couldn't.
The Trump administration is offering useful foils to both. Zelensky rants about America's betrayal, and Putin bulges his breasts and gives his media a gorgeous praise to him for softening the Americans. The transaction will not change.

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All these keywords are permanent.

If the Russians broke the ceasefire and signed this contract just to push Kiev back in a few months, it would be difficult to not view peace as a massive miscalculation.

But is Putin really possible that he is corrupted due to another war? This didn't go as planned. It sacrificed him hundreds of thousands of men.

And he must know that if he begins hostilities again, the US and Europe will see little option but to come to Kiev's aid. In this way he declares victory and can return to the billion-dollar Black Sea Palace.

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If Trump can push this deal, I think it's good that it could hold until Putin gets caught up in the great empty Kremlin (or likely underneath).

In that case, Trump's critics will undoubtedly acknowledge his incredible accomplishments by quickly and relatively neatly ending Europe's most brutal wars.

Certainly they would.

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