Date: Tuesday, 29 July 2025
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/trump-continues-bidens-policies-on
https://theduran.com/trump-continues-bidens-policies-on-ukraine
Trump Continues Biden’s Policies on Ukraine
29 July 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
A headine today says “Trump voices frustration with Putin, says ceasefire deadline will shorten”, and the story reports thaat Trump has intensified his threat against Russia by shortening his warning-period down from 50 days to 10 days. The thousands of reader-comments at that story at Yahoo News are intensely pro-Trump and anti-Putin, as-if Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 had not been in response to the U.S. Government’s take-over of Ukraine (a country bordering Russia) on 20 February 2014 in a violent U.S. coup that U.S.-and-allied ‘news’ media reported instead as having been a democratic revolution in Ukraine. Ukraine is the nearest of all countries to Moscow and therefore the one nation that Russia’s Government had always said it would never allow to become a member-nation of NATO. Have the American (and allied) publics been blind to the actual history here? What were the Minsk Accords about? (The U.S. Government had no part in them but Russia’s Government did because they didn’t want to need to invade Ukraine in order to prevent that nation from joining NATO and placing American nuclear missiles a mere five minutes away from The Kremlin.) Then on 17 December 2021, Russia warned both NATO and America (though this too was not reported by U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media) that if they didn’t stop their drive to get Ukraine into NATO, Russia would need to do what it must in order to prevent that. On 7 July 2022, both NATO and the U.S. responded by saying they’d never comply with any such demand on the part of Russia. It was as-if when JFK had threatenned Cuba and Moscow if Russia were to place its nukes in Cuba, the U.S. was the aggressor. But this time Putin is called by U.S.-and-allied media an aggressor for refusing too allow U.S. missiles in Ukraine to decapitate Russia’s central command. How stupid (and deceived) does the public have to be to believe that Putin was the aggressor on 24 February 2022?
I documented all of this in detail in an article on 6 March 2025, “Why America, the EU, and Ukraine, Should Lose to Russia in Ukraine’s War”. It was submitted to, and rejected by, and never mentioned in, any and all U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media. The censorship here is as bad as it was in the Soviett Union.
On 4 December 2024, my article reporting that Trump’s policy on Ukraine would turn out to be what Biden’s was, was the following:
“Reuters reports Trump is set to continue Biden’s policies on Ukraine.”
On December 4th, Reuters headlined “Trump's plan for Ukraine comes into focus: Territorial concessions but NATO off the table”, and reported from named and unnamed sources, what the proposals have been by individuals who have publicly stated their own recommended policies regarding the war in Ukraine, and all of these individuals have been neoconservative, which is to say that they assume that the U.S. must continue to be the dominant force and ultimate decision-maker regarding Ukraine and its international relations (indeed, international relations everywhere) — continue to include Ukraine as being a part of the U.S. empire.
The ONLY one of that article’s named sources who has actually been appointed by Trump to be a part of his Administration regard Ukraine is Keith Kellogg, whom Trump has given this precise portfolio, of being the United States Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia. And, so, Kellogg’s 9,000-word atrociously written plan — which was superbly outlined, summarized, and linked-to on December 2nd at the merely 1,000-word crystal-clear and accurate “What’s Inside Keith Kellogg’s Ukraine Peace Plan?”, and so I won’t say anything more about it — does actually have some important confirmation by today’s Donald Trump, because Trump gave this portfolio to Kellogg. This plan is the main one that the Reuters article cites. Reuters accurately characterizes what it says, including that, “Trump's advisers would try forcing Moscow and Kyiv into negotiations with carrots and sticks, including halting military aid to Kyiv unless it agrees to talk but boosting assistance if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses.”
In other words, Trump’s plan is to threaten Russia — which is clearly heading toward victory in Ukraine — by “boosting assistance if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses.”
Notice there that Reuters doesn’t want its readers to know that Russia is clearly heading toward victory in Ukraine, and that it ALSO doesn’t want them to know that that word “boosting” would be applied specifically to constitute boosting-to-UKRAINE, which means to CONTINUE the Biden Administration’s policy regarding this war: i.e., to intensify America’s war against Russia.
Another vaguery in that article is “NATO membership for Ukraine would be put on hold.” The actual statement in the Kellogg plan is that Trump should “put off NATO membership for Ukraine for an extended period in exchange for a comprehensive and verifiable peace deal with security guarantees [FOR UKRAINE -- so the U.S. Government would CONTINUE to control Ukraine].” Putin has repeatedly made unambiguously clear that one of his three NON-negotiable requirements in order to end this war is to make Ukrainian membership in Nato IMPOSSIBLE — not merely prohibited in the short term, but impossible ever. The Kellogg plan fails even to address ANY of Russia’s three bare-minimum requirements (those three non-negotiable requirements) in order to end its proxy-war against the U.S. empire’s war against Russia, that is being waged in the battlefields of Ukraine.
In other words: Trump’s policy toward Russia will be Biden’s policy toward Russia, and this is a policy that would lead inevitably to WW3, because the U.S. Government is — in its actions and not merely in its words — just as determined to conquer (control) Russia, as Russia is determined NOT to be controlled by ANY foreign power.
(And, so, too, we know why both the Reuters article’s headline, “Trump's plan for Ukraine comes into focus: Territorial concessions but NATO off the table”, and its report, are vaguely written, so as to avoid calling their readers’ attention to what the reality is that they are pretending to be informing them about. Readers who buy such ‘journalism’ are buying propaganda. Both America’s elected politicians and its ‘news’-media are designed to fool — not inform — the public. I provide links to my articles that provide the evidence for my allegations, because I seek ONLY intelligent readers, and because intelligent readers demand access to the evidence in order to be able to judge it for themselves.)
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
