The UK-based Telegraph newspaper has obtained a copy of a proposed peace plan being pitched by the Trump administration to Ukraine that has reportedly set off "panic" in Kyiv.As the Telegraph writes, the plan delivered to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week would "amount to the US econ...

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According to the Telegraph, a leaked confidential Trump peace plan delivered to President Zelenskyy has caused panic in Kyiv.

The proposal would grant the U.S. half of revenues from Ukraine’s resource extraction and licensing, effectively amounting to economic colonization.

The Telegraph noted, “Trump’s demands would amount to a higher share of Ukrainian GDP than reparations imposed on Germany at the Versailles Treaty, later whittled down at the London Conference in 1921, and by the Dawes Plan in 1924.”

Simultaneously, the plan would absolve Russia for its invasion that has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.

  • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    Not really feasible. The US has intelligence assets, spy satellites, AWACs, munitions spare parts, etc. that Europe can’t easily replace or doesn’t hold the rights to distribute to Ukraine without US consent.

    There is a reason the US doesn’t have universal healthcare.

    • drthunder@midwest.socialEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      The US has enough money for both universal healthcare and our obscene military budget, we just choose to only have one.

      • LeFantome@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        [edit: responded to the wrong comment. Moved]

        I guess my comment here would be that you may not have either of them soon. Trump has talked about cutting military spending in half. He is certainly not going to spend that on healthcare.

    • LeFantome@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      As funny as that joke is (and I have certainly laughed at it I the past), I do not believe the US is indispensable in the fight against Russia. Incredibly helpful yes. It will be a big loss. That said…

      If the rest of us stay engaged, Ukraine will have what it needs.

      I am much more concerned that the US will drop sanctions against Russia. Draining Russia’s bank accounts is critical.

      Worse, as countries like Canada move their energy sales away from the US, I can see the US becoming a customer of Russian energy.

      Also worried about Germany…