Deep Dive: What Peace in Ukraine Will Take, and Why

Donald Trump is committed to negotiating a peace that everyone can live with. The people most upset about it are Western elites.

by Rod D. Martin
February 15, 2025

This week Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The aim? Not just a peace both sides can accept in the short term, but one that can actually last.

Neither side is going to be happy. But the Beltway Establishment is already livid. They talk of driving Russia from every square inch of Ukrainian soil, and immediately folding Ukraine into NATO. They don’t talk about the cost either of those things would require.

Russia is in the wrong. Countries shouldn’t conquer territory from one another — the nations of the world actually outlawed that in 1945 — and certainly shouldn’t benefit from their lawless acts.

Nevertheless, Western elites act as though they have infinite Godlike power to remake the world in their chosen image.

They don’t. But they’re very willing to fight to the last drop of Ukrainian blood — and possibly yours also — to “win”.

Trump is not. Not a neocon, not a social engineer, and not an…