German Chancellor calls on the US not to impose a peace deal on Ukraine
13 February 15:30
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on the United States not to impose an agreement to end the war in Ukraine after US President Donald Trump agreed to start talks with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. This was reported by Komersant ukrainskyi with reference to the Guardian.
“The next challenge is to ensure that there is no dictated world,” Scholz told Politico.
Scholz said in an interview that transatlantic unity must be “always guaranteed.”
At the same time, the chancellor ruled out the deployment of German troops to Ukraine for the time being.
“Everyone knows that this is out of the question at the moment,” he said.
At this stage, “it is unclear under what conditions Ukraine will be ready to agree to a peace deal,” Scholz said. Ukraine needs the opportunity to develop “even after a peace agreement,” the chancellor added. According to him, this meant having a “strong army” that would be bigger.
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Trump’s position on Ukraine
During the election campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly said that he would stop the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office. This deadline has already passed.
Also during the election, the media spread the so-called “Trump Plan”. The plan was that the United States would use its influence to stop the war, taking into account the status quo. To do this, Trump would force Putin and Zelenskyy to sit down at the negotiating table. If Putin does not agree to negotiate, the United States will give Ukraine all the weapons it needs to win on the battlefield. If Zelenskyy refuses to negotiate, the United States will completely stop helping Ukraine.
This plan, in its various variations, included a provision that Russia would retain the territories it temporarily occupied and that Ukraine would not join NATO.
However, later Trump seemed to “forget” about this plan. In particular, he voiced scenarios in which he would force Russia to capitulate due to the decline in world oil prices.
After Trump was elected President of the United States, one of his advisors, Brian Lanza, said that Ukraine should forget about Crimea. Trump’s entourage, however, was quick to deny this statement and said that Lanza could not speak on his behalf.
Currently, the US Special Representative for Russia and Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, is talking about 100 days within which he wants to reach some kind of agreement. Of these, 24 days have already passed. During this time, the US presidential administration has established contact with the Kremlin, an American envoy has traveled to Moscow, and Trump has spoken to Putin on the phone and allegedly agreed to meet in Saudi Arabia.
