Trump’s Failure and Greed in Ukraine

How a Peace Plan Became a Vehicle for Personal Gain, Appeasement, and the Corruption of U.S. Foreign Policy

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Chaos. Confusion. Surrender. Betrayal.

Many words could describe the fiasco surrounding the leaked proposal to end the war in Ukraine, but one stands above the rest: failure.

The Trump administration has failed to defend American interests and to protect the cause of our allies. The Trump administration has failed to stand up to Russia’s maximalist demands, to conduct transparent and principled diplomacy, and to pursue a just and lasting peace rather than appeasement, capitulation, and personal gain. From bottom to top, it is failure at every level.

Earlier this month, Axios published a leaked 28-point “peace plan” negotiated behind closed doors. The document triggered emergency meetings across European capitals and in Washington, not because it represented a viable diplomatic solution but because it exposed the most brazen example to date of transactional diplomacy corrupted by financia…