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riversedge

(75,144 posts)
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:33 AM 21 hrs ago

Trump's "final offer" for peace requires Ukraine to accept Russian occupation

Source: axios



12 hours ago -


The U.S. expects Ukraine's response Wednesday to a peace framework that includes U.S. recognition of Crimea as part of Russia and unofficial recognition of Russian control of nearly all areas occupied since the 2022 invasion, sources with direct knowledge of the proposal tell Axios.

Why it matters: The one-page document the U.S. presented Ukrainian officials in Paris last week describes this as President Trump's "final offer." The White House insists it's ready to walk away if the parties don't make a deal soon.

Trump's proposal would require major concessions from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who previously ruled out accepting Russia's occupation of Crimea and parts of four regions in eastern Ukraine.
And while Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly offered to freeze the current front lines in order to reach a deal, he has previously rejected other elements of the U.S. framework, such as a European peacekeeping force on Ukrainian territory.
A source close to the Ukrainian government said Kyiv sees the proposal as highly biased towards Russia: "The proposal says very clearly what tangible gains Russia gets, but only vaguely and generally says what Ukraine is going to get."...............


Read more: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/trump-russia-ukraine-peace-plan-crimea-donbas






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Trump's "final offer" for peace requires Ukraine to accept Russian occupation (Original Post) riversedge 21 hrs ago OP
Trump can't force Ukraine to accept Russia after so many soldiers died fighting for Ukraine Walleye 21 hrs ago #1
Outrageous. highplainsdem 21 hrs ago #2
Hogwash... 2naSalit 21 hrs ago #3
Not that Trump could understand but this is a terrible precedent to set. Even worse if Ukraine can't join NATO dutch777 21 hrs ago #4
Need to check the calendar again. I thought this was 2025, not 1938. Ray Bruns 21 hrs ago #5
What's next: Witkoff will travel to Moscow later this week for his fourth meeting with Putin, the White House announced riversedge 21 hrs ago #6
Not. Gonna. Happen. DJT can go fuck all the way off. LymphocyteLover 21 hrs ago #7
What's Putin's is Putin's. What isn't is negotiable. Sounds familiar. Eugene 21 hrs ago #8
I guess Trump believes... liberalgunwilltravel 20 hrs ago #9
Use a cholla! It'll hurt more. Linda ladeewolf 18 hrs ago #16
If Ukraine accepts Marthe48 20 hrs ago #10
Agree a peace deal or US will walk away, Vance tells Ukraine and Russia muriel_volestrangler 19 hrs ago #11
It might be better under the circumstances if trump walked away. Linda ladeewolf 18 hrs ago #18
Nailed it! PortTack 18 hrs ago #23
Just what Ukraine needs - a major fuck-up like Vance running negotiations. mdbl 16 hrs ago #32
Wasn't that his first, second and third "offer" too? travelingthrulife 19 hrs ago #12
Fuck off Krasnov Botany 19 hrs ago #13
Well isn't this great? Ukraine gets attacked at the negotiation tables. bluestarone 19 hrs ago #14
aka he threw his hands up and the air and said, "I need a nap". nt Javaman 18 hrs ago #15
So ... surrender. mellow 18 hrs ago #17
Neither Pootie, nor trmp can be trusted and Zelensky knows it. louis-t 18 hrs ago #19
GOP sells out because the US is weak. bronxiteforever 18 hrs ago #20
This fool doesn't get it! It doesn't matter what the F you say...GO AWAY! PortTack 18 hrs ago #21
Take your, "final offer," and shove it Bayard 18 hrs ago #22
Hopefully Ukraine will tell Putin's puppet to shove it. republianmushroom 17 hrs ago #24
I hope Europe can hold the line against Russia and support Ukraine against this unholy pact. Martin68 17 hrs ago #25
When this is all over, I will be bitterly upset if Trump is not a refugee hiding in Moscow. Moostache 17 hrs ago #26
This is a set-up blue-wave 17 hrs ago #27
Screw off drumphf & putin! Slava Ukraini! electric_blue68 17 hrs ago #28
Time for a united Europe to help Ukraine. Chipper Chat 16 hrs ago #29
What happened to the 24-hours boast? "Well, I was being a little bit sarcastic when I said that," Ol Janx Spirit 16 hrs ago #30
Trump apparently doesn't know the meaning of "sarcasm". LudwigPastorius 15 hrs ago #35
He only recently discovered the word groceries and kindly brought it back to the common folks... N/T Ol Janx Spirit 14 hrs ago #37
All russians in the WH so what was to be expected? vapor2 16 hrs ago #31
The peace deal isn't a peace deal. It's an ultimatum sakabatou 16 hrs ago #33
BREAKING: London Peace Talks COLLAPSE -- republianmushroom 16 hrs ago #34
Trump & Vance can go f@k themselves. sinkingfeeling 15 hrs ago #36
And he wants a Nobel Peace Prize for that. milestogo 14 hrs ago #38
Zelensky reposted a 2018 statement by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo LetMyPeopleVote 12 hrs ago #39
Hell, it actually would NOT surprise me if TSF sent American troops in there to help bluestarone 9 hrs ago #40

Walleye

(39,752 posts)
1. Trump can't force Ukraine to accept Russia after so many soldiers died fighting for Ukraine
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:39 AM
21 hrs ago

2naSalit

(96,488 posts)
3. Hogwash...
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:46 AM
21 hrs ago

Orange ogre never intended to propose anything that would benefit Ukraine in any way. It's all for pootin and whatever he can conger up for himself. He sees it all as spoils of war.

dutch777

(4,297 posts)
4. Not that Trump could understand but this is a terrible precedent to set. Even worse if Ukraine can't join NATO
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:48 AM
21 hrs ago

This will be another perpetually tense and fortified border ala the Korean DMZ. And the Baltic states will look at this as exposing them for future aggression from Russia. Trump is a complete sell out to Putin.

riversedge

(75,144 posts)
6. What's next: Witkoff will travel to Moscow later this week for his fourth meeting with Putin, the White House announced
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:52 AM
21 hrs ago



What's next: Witkoff will travel to Moscow later this week for his fourth meeting with Putin, the White House announced Tuesday.

But Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are both expected to skip talks in London on Wednesday involving U.S., Ukrainian, French, German and U.K. officials. Both had previously planned to attend.
Instead, Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg is expected to lead the U.S. delegation. The U.S. proposal is expected to be part of the discussions.
9. I guess Trump believes...
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 08:07 AM
20 hrs ago

Since US Republicans have accepted Russian occupation of the Oval Office, Ukrainians should accept occupation of their country. BTW, fuck Trump and his minions with a saguaro 🌵.

muriel_volestrangler

(103,477 posts)
11. Agree a peace deal or US will walk away, Vance tells Ukraine and Russia
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 09:12 AM
19 hrs ago
US vice-president JD Vance warned Wednesday that Moscow and Kyiv must strike a deal or Washington will end its efforts to reach a ceasefire.

“We’ve issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it’s time for them to either say yes, or for the United States to walk away from this process,” Vance told reporters in India, where he is on a four-day visit.
...
“It’s now time, I think, to take, if not the final step, one of the final steps, which is, at a broad level, the party saying we’re going to stop the killing, we’re going to freeze the territorial lines at some level close to where they are today,” Vance added.

“Now, of course, that means the Ukrainians and the Russians are both going to have to give up some of the territory they currently own,” he added.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/apr/23/russia-ukraine-war-live-london-peace-talks-macron-starmer-zelenskyy-putin-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6808d1148f0864f4ce48210a#block-6808d1148f0864f4ce48210a

"Both ... give up some of the territory they currently own" is doing a lot of work there. Vance/Trump/whoever is not asking Russia to "give up" a single bit of Russia as internationally recognised; the only movement of the front line towards Russia mentioned is "the return of the small part of Kharkiv oblast Russia has occupied", which is, of course, not "owned". Russia get to control everything else it has invaded, and gets US recognition of Crimea as part of Russia.

I presume "walk away from this process" is a threat to withdraw all US military support from Ukraine. Because if it was just "the US won't try and make a deal anymore", it wouldn't be much of a threat, would it? More like a relief that the biased and out-of-their-depth US "negotiators" would stop wasting people's time.

Linda ladeewolf

(839 posts)
18. It might be better under the circumstances if trump walked away.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 10:22 AM
18 hrs ago

The free nations of the world are stepping up, this is a good thing for the world and bad for the US. They will learn that they can be super powers too.

Botany

(73,901 posts)
13. Fuck off Krasnov
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 09:28 AM
19 hrs ago

Ukraine’s answer will be no we are not surrendering any of our lands or people. End of story.

BTW: Russia is losing.

1). They are running out of vehicles to transport troops they have been using horses,
motorcycles, scooters, and walking to move their forces into battle and Ukrainian drones
are slaughtering them.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/113349102

B). Battle hardened Columbian troops are now in country and they are thrashing Russian
and North Korean troops. One Columbian officer said that Ukrainian drones are cleaning out
and spotting enemy forces before they are deployed.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/113349092



bluestarone

(19,625 posts)
14. Well isn't this great? Ukraine gets attacked at the negotiation tables.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 09:35 AM
19 hrs ago

Ukraine has TWO enemies at the peace tables!! (which we KNEW would happen! Fuck TSF to HELL!!

bronxiteforever

(10,352 posts)
20. GOP sells out because the US is weak.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 10:29 AM
18 hrs ago

We are not a first rate power anymore under TSF and TSF will fold to his friend Pootie.

Bayard

(24,777 posts)
22. Take your, "final offer," and shove it
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 10:36 AM
18 hrs ago

He is Putin's mouthpiece, and his only solution is for Ukraine to surrender. Putin would go on to plunder the rest of Ukraine, then move on to other countries.

Manifest Destiny, Russian style.

Martin68

(25,509 posts)
25. I hope Europe can hold the line against Russia and support Ukraine against this unholy pact.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 11:36 AM
17 hrs ago

Moostache

(10,454 posts)
26. When this is all over, I will be bitterly upset if Trump is not a refugee hiding in Moscow.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 11:44 AM
17 hrs ago

He is a fool, an imbecile, a moron, a stooge, a crass ass-hat and more, but he is also a complicit war criminal trying to force a nominally allied nation to cede territory to an avowed enemy and supporting the war crimes and abuses of Putin in the process.

When the hammer of justice falls on Trump, I hope he remains the coward that he is but does not go out like Hitler, rather gets captured like Saddam and goes out the same goddamn way.

blue-wave

(4,626 posts)
27. This is a set-up
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 11:48 AM
17 hrs ago

He wants to frame the narrative, as he has been doing all along, that Ukraine is the cause of the war and the reason there is no peace. Ukraine won't submit and give up land to psychopaths who invaded their country ? Well then, we'll just walk away because Ukraine is unreasonable. Victim blaming and victim shaming. Innocent Ukrainians are dying every day. This is a shame on the United States.

Chipper Chat

(10,332 posts)
29. Time for a united Europe to help Ukraine.
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 12:08 PM
16 hrs ago

If they don't- Poland will be pootie's next morsel.

Ol Janx Spirit

(152 posts)
30. What happened to the 24-hours boast? "Well, I was being a little bit sarcastic when I said that,"
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 12:29 PM
16 hrs ago

he claims now. ( https://www.euronews.com/2025/03/15/trump-says-he-was-a-bit-sarcastic-when-he-claimed-he-could-end-the-war-in-ukraine-in-24-ho )

I feel like his cult members know this, and that we fall into his trap by believing that his spoken words are supposed to mean anything.

The question that just constantly shadows my psyche though is how is it possible that Democrats can't make more political headway on the fact that his proclamations are such obvious sacks of feces? We are a long way down the road from his boast that Mexico would pay to build the border wall to keep people out of the U.S.; and obviously we do not have a shiny new healthcare system. Yet every new boast is met with some perception that he really means it.

It is not solely the fault of the press--although good arguments can be made in that area. Political reality is formed through so many factors: social media; memes; press coverage; public perception; word of mouth. Why do his lies seem to always ascend and never create fallout? Are we simply witnessing the work of one of the greatest con-artists in history?

Ol Janx Spirit

(152 posts)
37. He only recently discovered the word groceries and kindly brought it back to the common folks... N/T
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 02:43 PM
14 hrs ago

sakabatou

(44,604 posts)
33. The peace deal isn't a peace deal. It's an ultimatum
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 12:58 PM
16 hrs ago

Either end the war and let Russia take over, or you get nothing from us.

republianmushroom

(19,546 posts)
34. BREAKING: London Peace Talks COLLAPSE --
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 01:04 PM
16 hrs ago

Zelenskyy's Red Line on Crimea Changed Everything



Thank you, Zelenskyy, for telling the Putin's puppets to shove it.

LetMyPeopleVote

(161,888 posts)
39. Zelensky reposted a 2018 statement by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 05:02 PM
12 hrs ago


Zelensky reposted a 2018 statement by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, which reads:

“The United States reaffirms as policy its refusal to recognize the Kremin's claims of sovereignty over territory seized by force.”

bluestarone

(19,625 posts)
40. Hell, it actually would NOT surprise me if TSF sent American troops in there to help
Wed Apr 23, 2025, 07:36 PM
9 hrs ago

RUSSIA.

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