NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA
When US President Donald Trump shared his 28-point peace plan last month, he immediately began putting pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “sign by Thanksgiving.” Basing the timeline on a US holiday, which has no resonance in either Ukraine or Russia, was telling: the plan was always and exclusively about Trump.
As the New School’s Nina L. Khrushcheva observes, Trump has little interest in “ensuring a durable peace.” He merely wants to distract the US electorate from his “association with the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein,” with a “quick foreign-policy ‘victory.’” The idea was that he would secure Russia’s agreement by offering a plan “skewed heavily” in its favor, while using a high-level corruption scandal within Zelensky’s government to “force unacceptable peace terms on Ukrainians.”
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