{"id":308884,"date":"2025-05-18T07:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T07:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=308884"},"modified":"2025-05-20T06:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T06:09:01","slug":"trump-envoy-reveals-nato-troop-deployment-plans-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=308884","title":{"rendered":"Trump envoy reveals NATO troop deployment plans for Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0\u2013 paulcraigroberts.org May 14, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I have been wondering if the Trump regime\u2019s peace negotiations are sincere.\u00a0 The plan revealed by Trump\u2019s envoy Keith Kellogg indicates that the negotiations are not sincere.\u00a0 Putin, Lavrov and Security Council Secretary Shoigu, the former Minister of Defense, have all made it clear that NATO troops in Ukraine are unacceptable and could result in World War III.\u00a0 So why has Kellogg supported, or arranged, a joint statement by the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the UK pledging \u201crobust security guarantees for Ukraine,\u201d consisting of \u201ca coalition of air, land, and maritime reassurance forces that could help create confidence in any future peace and support the regeneration of Ukraine\u2019s armed forces.\u201d\u00a0 This is certainly not the de-militarization of Ukraine that the Kremlin requires, and protection by NATO forces is the same as being a member of NATO.<\/p>\n

Putin has brought this upon Russia by his and his foreign minister\u2019s continuous bleating for a negotiated settlement. For more than three years Putin has avoided a military victory.\u00a0 The explanation I offer is that he saw in the conflict what he thought was an opportunity to use it to reach a great power settlement, like the mutual security agreement with the West that he and his foreign minister tried to achieve during December 2021 and February 2022.<\/p>\n

Putin\u2019s failure to be prepared for conflict with the West in Ukraine and his withholding of military victory has produced a dangerous situation. Putin\u2019s toleration of a never-ending conflict has widened the conflict into missile strikes deep into Russia and the recent closing of all Moscow airports as a result of drone attacks.\u00a0 This must raise the question among Russians of Putin\u2019s effectiveness as a war leader.\u00a0 One result is that the West has so little regard for Putin that despite his dire warning the West is planning to station NATO forces in Ukraine.\u00a0 It would have been much better if Putin had gone about the business of winning the war instead of trying to use it to negotiate a settlement with the West.\u00a0 The result of Putin\u2019s failure to fight to win is likely to be a much wider war.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/617483-nato-europe-troops-ukraine\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Does the Kremlin realize that the purpose of \u00a0Washington\u2019s \u201cUkraine peace negotiations\u201d is to sequence Washington\u2019s wars with Russia and China because Washington doesn\u2019t have the ability to take them on simultaneously? Does the Kremlin realize that the negotiations are not sincere and are being used to extract Washington from the conflict and to substitute NATO in order for Washington to be able to focus on China, regarded as the strongest opponent? \u00a0It is clear that Washington regards Russia and China as opponents to be defeated. \u00a0Are the \u201cpeace negotiations\u201d being used to cause wars, not end them?<\/p>\n

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