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Did We Just See Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan?

A leaked document has given us a first glimpse at Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian online newspaper Strana, U.S. officials handed the plan to European diplomats who then passed it on to Ukraine.

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Trump Wants Ukraine to Guarantee Access to Rare Earths for War Aid

President Donald Trump said his administration wants an agreement with Ukraine for the war-torn country to offer access to its critical mineral resources in return for aiding its defense against Russia.

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Missing money, delayed arms deliveries and demands for mining deals, Ukraine’s relations with Trump are off to a rocky start

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has complained that Ukraine has only received $75bn from a pledged $177bn of aid pledged by the US to support Ukraine last year and he doesn’t know where the missing $100bn money is, he said in an interview with The Associated Press on February 1.

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Art of the Deal or World War III? | Jim Jatras Interview

Former US Diplomat Jim Jatras joins Counter Currents host and former CIA analyst Larry Johnson to discuss the following issues: What can we expect from Donald Trump’s foreign policy? More war, more color revolutions or a chance for peace? Can Trump strike a deal with Putin over Ukraine?

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Trump’s role in the Ukraine-Russia conflict

Undoing 40 years of U.S. Neo-Containment policy and building global diplomacy for sustainable peace

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Putin meets Trump

The great flaw in ex-president Barack Obama’s record was his policy towards Russia. Going against everything he had said and written about before he became president, one action after another antagonised the Russians- his early proclamation that he wanted Georgia and Ukraine in Nato, his de facto coalition of convenience for a crucial couple of days with the anti-democratic, anti-Russian, neo-fascist, demonstrators in Ukraine, the further expansion of Nato, despite an earlier promise not to, made by President H.W. Bush, to the Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, and his inability to cooperate with the Russians and Iranians over Syria.

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Unpredictable Trump

The whole world anxiously awaits the meeting between Trump and Putin, which will determine peace in Ukraine, Europe and the world as a whole.

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Trump & Ukraine: The Coming Battle Over Conscription

There may be a battle looming, not just between the Trump administration and Ukraine over the conscription of men between the ages of 18 and 25, but also within the Trump administration.

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SCOTT RITTER: Trump’s Doomed Plan for Ukraine

“The Hard Way” — Special Envoy Keith Kellogg’s proposed oil-price manipulations targeting Russia would actually devastate U.S. oil production and the U.S. economy.

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Trump’s Homework on Russia

As Donald Trump says he wants to end the war in Ukraine, Edward Lozansky recommends some background reading on the roots of the conflict.