Orban Claims “Trump” Has “Detailed Plan” to End Ukraine Conflict

Related: Zelensky Now Wants Russia to Attend Second “Peace Summit”

So, the fact that Zelensky is calling for a “second” “peace summit,” and wants Russia to come – in November – tells me that there is indeed a Trump plan to end the war.

I think there was also a Sullivan/Blinken plan to end the war after the election. But now that Trump has been crowned president-elect, and the Democrats have basically agreed to surrender over a small ear injury, I think we can pretty well guarantee a change to the current status quo in the Ukraine.

I doubt the war will actually end. Trump said he won’t agree to Putin’s terms of officially surrendering 4 provinces plus Crimea and signing a “never NATO” agreement before the beginning of the Ukraine surrender negotiations. Instead, Trump’s people are probably going to try to freeze the conflict, and I’m not sure that in practice, Putin won’t de facto accept a North-South Korea situation.

I can pretty well guarantee that Trump’s people are not going to come up with realistic terms for a serious peace. But he is going to pivot to the Middle East.

The Guardian:

Viktor Orbán has claimed that Donald Trump has “detailed and well-founded” plans for peace between Russia and Ukraine in a letter to a top EU body that is likely to inflame tensions about the Hungarian prime minister’s diplomatic freelancing.

Orbán, who met Trump at his Palm Beach compound last week, said in his letter to the president of the European Council, who organises meetings of the bloc’s 27 national leaders, that the Republican presidential nominee was ready to act as peace broker “immediately” after his election.

The “likely outcome” of a Trump victory meant that the EU should reopen “direct lines of diplomatic communication” with Russia and “high-level political talks” with China, Orbán wrote in the letter addressed to the council’s president, Charles Michel, which was first reported by the Financial Times. The Guardian has seen a copy.

Orban is going to be disappointed with Trump’s take on China.

I think that’s for sure.

Orban has pushed back against the Americanization of European relations with China, but I think this is a uniparty point of agreement that Trump is going along with.

The Hungarian prime minister said Trump’s expected victory would mean that the financial burden of supporting Ukraine’s war effort would shift to the EU.

“I am more than convinced that in the likely outcome of the victory of President Trump, the proportion of the financial burden between the US and the EU will significantly change to the EU’s disadvantage when it comes to the financial support of Ukraine,” he wrote.

Orbán also said that after his recent talks with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, and the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, “the general observation” was that “the intensity of the military conflict will radically escalate in the near future”.

European strategy, Orbán wrote, had “copied the pro-war policy of the US”. He called for a discussion of “whether the continuation of this policy is rational in future”.

It wasn’t rational in past.

It was never rational.

If the goal was to destroy the concept of a multipolar world, they should have put all resources into unseating Xi Jinping, not Vladimir Putin, and definitely not Shia Islam.

But the Israelis don’t care about preventing “multipolarity.” That is a project of the American Jews. Israelis just care about eliminating all of their immediate enemies, and they do not view Russia or China as immediate enemies. They don’t like that Russia and China back their enemies, but reckon that if their enemies didn’t exist, Russia and China wouldn’t be able to back them anymore.