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Is Trump changing tack on ending the war in Ukraine?

Jan 23, 2025 View Original Article
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    50% Medium Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -26% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : By that time, Trump can claim to have brought peace to Ukraine while largely forgoing the following negotiations to make the peace sustainable.
54% : But Trump, on the other hand, hopes that threats will encourage China and India to play a more decisive role in peace negotiations.
52% : Trump is keen to press both sides into agreeing on a ceasefire, before figuring out the particular details afterwards.
48% : Trump maintained a degree of engagement while keeping the US footprint in the region small.
47% : The following day, in a post on his Truth Social site, Trump went even further.
47% : "This approach to negotiation comes out in the way Trump - a billionaire businessman - thinks about commercial negotiations.
45% : The new US president, Donald Trump, has only been in office for a few days, but he has already changed his tune on the war in Ukraine.
43% : In an article from 2019, Harvard University's Eugene B. Kogan wrote that Trump aims to offer a "structured choice in negotiations: either accept his offer or face his unpredictable ire.
41% : Trump appears to want to break through the preset requirements the Kremlin has already established on the conditions of a ceasefire.
41% : Trump demonstrated throughout his election campaign that he sees tariffs as a way to right the many wrongs - or so he sees it - that the US has endured.
40% : This has not happened, and Trump did not even mention Ukraine in his inauguration speech.
34% : "Russia is bigger [than Ukraine], they have more soldiers to lose, but that's no way to run a country," Trump remarked.
34% : So, is Trump now merely suggesting a continuation from Biden's policy?
33% : We shall soon see what a coercive negotiator like Trump can do to change the positions of either.
32% : But speaking to reporters shortly afterwards, Trump stated that the war was costing Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, more than he was gaining from it.
25% : Trump has long spoken of his desire to end the war, and on the campaign trail even announced that he could stop the conflict within 24 hours of taking office.
25% : "He can't be thrilled, he's not doing so well," Trump said.
24% : First, Trump has set a revised target of 100 days for ending the war in Ukraine.
19% : On the face of it, Trump looks to be continuing Biden's policy of applying pressure and keeping Russia isolated.

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