U.S. and Ukrainian officials said Monday that Washington had pledged to protect Ukraine against further Russian attack. The goal is to ease the path to Kyiv’s signing on to a truce. The question of territory and Russia’s willingness to agree to a deal without ceding territory is far from resolution.
It isn’t meant to be a final deal. It’s only meant to bring them closer together.
“Things are seemingly going well, but we’ve been saying that for a long time, and it’s a difficult one,” President Donald Trump said Monday in the Oval Office after a conversation with Zelensky and other European leaders. “We have to get them on the same page. But I think that’s working.”
President Trump and senior US officials said Monday they’re closing in on a sweeping peace framework to end the war in Ukraine. It includes “Article Five-like” security guarantees and a multibillion-dollar rebuilding plan. There is the possibility of a 50/50 split of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.
The goal, officials said, is to create a package that stops Russia from pushing further into Ukraine. It gives Kyiv the strongest-ever shield against future aggression. Trump believes the negotiations are “closer now than ever.”
The Goal Is to Stop the Movement West
“President Trump’s very focused on reaching a conclusion to this conflict that really stops the Russians from moving west,” a senior US official told reporters Monday.
“Under President Bush, Russia moves west; under President Obama, Russia moves west; under President Biden, Russia moves west. President Trump really wants to see this as an agreement that ends that for good,” the official added.
I don’t want the US on the hook for “Article Five-like guarantees” for Ukraine or US involvement in a rebuilding plan. Probably many of my readers agree. Ukraine can’t be trusted not to start a war, and we can’t afford a rebuilding plan, especially one that involves BlackRock.
Between the resistance of Europeans and President Zelensky, there is a strong possibility there will never be a deal.
Zelensky backs PEACE deal — RELUCTANTLY
‘Not PERFECT but workable…’
Some points he opposed have now been REMOVED pic.twitter.com/NefrIeRQYM
— RT (@RT_com) December 15, 2025
I am reading that Europe is considering taking billions of Russia’s investments to help Ukraine to fight them and to rebuild the destruction there. What is Russia doing with so much money invested in other places? Governments job is to tax and spend not save or invest to help lower the taxpayers bill. Where did this money come from? Over taxation, theft? It seems to me that using the idea of taking Russia’s investments abroad to help Ukraine fight and rebuild the damage Russia has done is a great idea. How about using as a pry bar against that bastard Pootie. Say, Pootie, if you don’t come to the bargaining table to stop the killing we gonna take everything you have outside of the Russian state. If he is such a hard head take some of his savings. If he still resists take some more until he gets it. Yet, what do I know? I barely got a diploma.
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