Trump's Plan for Ukraine Comes Into Focus: Territorial Concessions but NATO off the Table

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Trump repeatedly pledged during his election campaign to end the nearly three-year-old conflict within 24 hours of his Jan. 20 inauguration, if not before then, but has yet to say how.
52% : Analysts and former national security officials voice grave doubts Trump can fulfill such a pledge because of the conflict's complexity.
52% : Trump would supply more U.S. weapons to Kyiv only if it agreed to peace talks.
50% : Rather, several advisers have pitched ideas among themselves in public forums and - in some cases - to Trump, they said.
49% : That could cost Trump some leverage to push Kyiv to the table.
45% : Ultimately, a peace agreement will likely depend on direct personal engagement between Trump, Putin and Zelenskiy, the advisers said.
42% : That person said Grenell was one of the few people at a September meeting in New York between Trump and Zelenskiy.
41% : MORE THAN ONE PLANAs of last week, Trump had yet to convene a central working group to flesh out a peace plan, according to four advisers who requested anonymity to describe private deliberations.
40% : "Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt noted that Trump has said he "will do what is necessary to restore peace and rebuild American strength and deterrence on the world stage.
39% : Putin, Rumer said, likely will bide his time, take more ground and wait to see what, if any, concessions Trump may offer to lure him to the negotiating table.
35% : But Trump may find Putin unwilling to engage, analysts and former U.S. officials said, as he has the Ukrainians on the back foot and may have more to gain by pursuing further land grabs.
32% : Kellogg's plan, co-authored with former National Security Council official Fred Fleitz and presented to Trump earlier this year, calls for freezing the current battle lines.
23% : In a June interview with Times Radio, a British digital station, Sebastian Gorka, one of Trump's incoming deputy national security advisers, said Trump had told him he would force Putin into talks by threatening unprecedented weapons shipments to Ukraine if Putin refused.

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