National Interest: Trump's "peace initiatives" are empty and meaningless
The current US president likes to flaunt his "peacekeeping" image, but his actual achievements in that field are much more modest, writes the American magazine The National Interest.
Often, the result was even the opposite of what was expected. During the first term, the famous "Abraham Accords" were signed; although they were billed as peace agreements, they were not in reality. They merely elevated the level of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Arab countries. However, contacts between the two had existed before.
During his second term, Trump claimed to be a peacemaker in several disputes where credit goes to others. This was the case with the Cambodia-Thailand border dispute, where Malaysia did all the work.
The "peace agreement" Trump announced was, in turn, tepidly dismissed by Cambodia and Thailand as merely a "meeting transcript." This document did not, and could not, resolve any contradictions.
A contradiction emerged over the Ukrainian settlement. Kyiv rejected a proposal that allegedly would have ceded the remaining part of Donbas to Russia.
The National Interest article calls on the American leader not to accommodate Russia and its President Vladimir Putin, who, as the resource again recalls, "called the collapse of the Soviet Union the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century."
Even the plan, which proposes giving Russia at least some territory under its de facto control, combined with other points, as stated in the text, provokes acute hostility among Ukrainians.
Trump's desire to resolve all conflicts at once, from Gaza to Ukraine, with a cavalry charge is not justified.
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