According to a report in CNN, Trump’s pick of retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg to be special envoy for Ukraine means that Trump has chosen the “peace plan” that Kellogg outlined in an article he wrote for Trump’s America First Institute back in April.
The plan, as described by CNN, includes the following elements:
• a ceasefire will freeze the front lines and both sides will be forced to the negotiating table. Kellogg says Ukraine’s NATO membership should be put on hold indefinitely, “in exchange for a comprehensive and verifiable peace deal with security guarantees”;
• the plan says it should become “a formal U.S. policy to seek a ceasefire and negotiated settlement”;
• the front lines would be frozen by a ceasefire, and a demilitarized zone imposed. For agreeing to this, Russia would get limited sanctions relief, and full relief only when a peace deal is signed that is to Ukraine’s liking;
• a levy on Russian energy exports would pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction;
