Donald Trump’s plan to tap the retired US lieutenant general Keith Kellogg as US envoy to Ukraine and Russia has triggered renewed interest in a policy document he co-authored that proposes ending the war by withdrawing weapons from Ukraine if it doesn’t enter peace talks – and giving even more weapons to Ukraine if Russia doesn’t do the same.
Trump is said to have responded favorably to the plan – America First, Russia & Ukraine – which was presented to him in April and was written by Kellogg and the former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz, who both served as chiefs of staff in Trump’s national security council from 2017 to 2021.
The document proposes halting further US weapons deliveries to Kyiv if it does not enter peace talks with Moscow, while simultaneously warning Moscow that, should it refuse to negotiate, US support for Ukraine would increase.
That’s not a part of the disarmament treaty the US and Ukraine signed as the Soviet union integrated who in their right mind will ever trust the US again when it comes to treaties. And who’s ever going to stand alongside the US in future if they ever need it, they’d be crazy to.
That treaty said that the US and Russia would not attack Ukraine. It did not say the US would defend Ukraine against an attack.
The US held up its end.
No one and why should they? We don’t consistently honor our commitments even when doing so is to our own advantage.
That’s a whole separate topic. Much of the time, national alliances aren’t rooted in mutual trust so much as “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”