As widely reported by the Italian and foreign press, according to rumors collected and published by Washington Post, Donald Trump he would already have a plan ready in his drawer to put an end to it in a very short time war in Ukraine.
In a nutshell, according to what was claimed by people close to the former president, who asked to remain anonymous, the proposal would consist of pushing Ukraine to cede its Crimea and the neighboring areas of Donbass. All this in line with what the tycoon has declared several times, who has often boasted of being able to negotiate, once re-elected, a satisfactory peace agreement between Putin and Zelensky within 24 hours.
On the other hand, the American presidential elections are rapidly approaching and, in line with its slogan “America first” – which literally refers to the isolationist policy followed by the States in the early 1900s -, one cannot be surprised that Trump seeks, on such an important issue, to clearly distinguish himself from his next, probable opponent in the race for the White House , or Joe Biden.
Obviously, in addition to the predictable reactions from the opposing camp, this is also causing more than a few doubts among Republicans. In particular, Fiona Hill, senior fellow at Brookings Institutionwho was Trump's top advisor on the Russia and who has since emerged as a prominent critic, said this all reminds her of 2017, “when foreign leaders and major business executives approached Trump with various peace plans, and he thought he could sit down with Russia and Ukraine and mediate thanks to his personal charisma”. According to Hill, Trump's staff “is thinking about this issue in a very limited way, that it's just a Ukraine-Russia issue, considering it a mere territorial disputerather than an issue that affects the entire future of European security and, by extension, the world order.”
Furthermore, as other neutral observers have argued, for Zelensky and his associates such a peace, which would not at all avert new future conflicts with Russia, would represent a real political suicide. A situation which, despite apparently enjoying great internal consensus, Putin himself would have to face in the event of a peace that lacks sufficient “political spoils” to be able to spend within his own country. In this sense, the Russian autocrat is in a worse position than his Ukrainian rival, having fired the gun first, as they say.
So much so that, after more than two years of a war, albeit limited, in the case of an agreement that restores the old borders, he would find himself in the enormous difficulty of justifying to the Russians the enormous effort made, in addition to the deaths, to find himself with a handful of flies.
The fact is that, although I personally believe that a re-elected Trump would not follow to the letter what he is leaking about the Russian-Ukrainian quagmire, his move to throw a stone into stagnant water of a conflict that is consuming much of Western public opinion is not as strange as many of our beautiful souls would like us to think.
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