BORIS JOHNSON: Trump's peace plan is now becoming clear

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : And here Trump has galvanised the Europeans to take the lead.
62% : Trump is now driving Labour policy on defence spending - and that is positive.
54% : If Trump can end this war and keep Ukraine free, that will be a blessing for Ukraine and the world.
54% : The population of the EU plus Britain is about 520 million.
51% : Yesterday Putin sent more than 200 drones and missiles slamming into targets across Ukraine Trump has made the most important point himself: the minerals deal gives the US an ever-growing stake in the security and prosperity of Ukraine, a real motive to preserve that security.
48% : He will accept this deal, because Trump will force him to do so - with tighter sanctions, of the kind we saw last night; with the promise of unlimited support for Ukraine; and with the threat of taking those $300 billion of frozen Russian assets.
47% : Why did Starmer last week announce that he was going to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP? Because he knew that he was off to Washington to see Trump the following day
44% : Here again, Trump is making positive noises and even suggested in the meeting with Zelensky that the US could conceivably join the peacekeeping mission itself.
42% : But how can Trump do such a thing?
41% : Again, we are going to have to learn a bit from Trump when it comes to cutting government spending - now at 44 per cent of GDP.
40% : But let's face it - before Trump, Washington was offering Ukraine no security guarantees at all.
39% : Sorry, Trump will say: Ukraine is a free and sovereign country.
37% : Is this what Trump - actually a very compassionate man - really wants? Conspiracy theorists are claiming that Trump is an agent of deep penetration, a secret Hero Of The Russian Federation who has finally been activated by Putin.
35% : Whatever the precise carve-up of territory - and Trump has already said that Putin will have to vacate territory - Putin will fail in his fundamental objective.
33% : Before we criticise Trump for trying for peace, we should be honest about the inadequacies of the previous western approach.
31% : It is Putin who will be ultimately forced to concede - and Trump can make him do so.
30% : Sorry, Trump will say: that is not compatible with Ukraine's continued existence as a free and sovereign country.
28% : Donald Trump is a dealmaker and what he wants - very sensibly - is peace.
26% : That is an anomaly that Trump was elected to sort out - and he is.
26% : And Trump will put that brutal squeeze on Putin because he knows that he - Trump - cannot afford to abandon Ukraine.
23% : Donald Trump has not demolished Nato.
20% : The US under Donald Trump has not gone rogue.
20% : But here's what I think Trump's trying to do: BORIS JOHNSON
16% : Trump cannot and will not allow his presidency to be defined by this disaster.

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