How Trump Can End the War in Ukraine

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : If Trump succeeded in brokering this settlement, he could become a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, an honor he covets.
59% : Of course, one more person needs to be convinced of the merits of this peace plan: Trump.
57% : Right now, Trump has tremendous political capital to wield over some of these potential holdouts, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
57% : By bringing Ukraine into NATO, Trump could achieve a significant victory for one of his foreign policy priorities: burden-sharing.
46% : Instead of just giving Putin everything he wants -- hardly an example of the president-elect's much-vaunted prowess in dealmaking -- Trump should devise a more sophisticated plan, encouraging Ukraine to nominally relinquish some territory to Russia in exchange for the security that would come with joining NATO.
42% : In their rhetoric, Trump and many of his allies have long expressed skepticism about U.S. support for Ukraine.
42% : Neither Putin nor Zelensky will be easily coaxed to the table, and Trump might resent the imperative of having to maintain, and even expand, support for Ukraine as a means to force negotiations.
39% : Trump personally must signal his unequivocal support so that other NATO leaders do not drag out the ratification process.
37% : It is the one card Trump can play to convince Ukrainians to stop fighting.
35% : Trump could explain to the American people that Ukraine's membership in NATO would allow the United States to spend less on European defense and free up resources to contain China's growing influence in the Asia-Pacific region.
34% : To work toward a peace deal, Trump should first accelerate the delivery of military aid to Ukraine that has already been approved and then signal his intention to provide more weapons to stop Russia's current offensive in Donbas, the much-contested eastern region of Ukraine, and thereby create a stalemate on the battlefield.
32% : If Trump threatens to cut aid to Ukraine, Putin will be even more emboldened to keep fighting, not end his invasion; advancing armies rarely stop fighting when their opponent is about to become weaker.
32% : But if the Russians insist that Ukraine's joining the alliance threatens Russia -- and they will -- Trump can explain to Putin that NATO membership will constrain Ukraine.
30% : After he convinces Putin to negotiate, Trump must also persuade Zelensky to stop fighting.
29% : If Putin senses that Trump and his new team are trying to appease the Kremlin, he will become more aggressive, not less.
17% : Trump should secure a swift deal and bring the dreadful war in Ukraine to an end.

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