Why Trump Now says “Russia will have to give up all of Ukraine.”

13 May 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

On May 4th, U.S. President Trump — about whom I had headlined on 4 December 2024, “Reuters reports Trump is set to continue Biden’s policies on Ukraine.” — told NBC News, that “Russia will have to give up all of Ukraine. Because that’s what they want.”

Not only is that the exact opposite of what Russia is, in fact, deeply committed to — they’ve made clear, numerous times, that the five regions of the former Ukraine where voters in plebiscites have voted overwhelmingly to be Russians instead of Ukrainians will remain henceforth as being parts of Russia, and where they are being, and will forever be, provided with Russian Social Security and military protection, and all of the other rights of Russian citizens. But, ALSO, if Russia would reneg on those promises, Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, would be overthrown by the Russian people, because his doing that would violate all of his repeated national-security commitments to the Russian people — such as that under NO circumstances would the nation — Ukraine — that has by far the nearest of all borders to The Kremlin (Russia’s Government), which is Ukraine, ever be allowed to join America’s anti-Russian military alliance, NATO.

For example, RT News, which is their equivalent to Britain’s BBC or America’s PBS, closed an article on May 13th by saying “Putin has maintained that Ukraine must abandon its plans to join NATO and renounce its claims to Crimea and four other regions that voted in 2022 to join Russia.” Obviously, therefore, Trump is simply ignoring Russia’s national-security red lines by demanding “Russia will have to give up all of Ukraine. Because that’s what they want.”

Trump is, indeed, committed to continuing Biden’s, and Trump’s, and Obama’s, war against Russia, in the battlefields of Ukraine, using Ukraine’s military, armed with U.S.-and-allied weapons and satellite intelligence, to conquer Russia. Anybody who had voted for Trump thinking otherwise, was merely fooled by his lies.

Previously, he had been committed to the Ukraine plan by his appointed Ukraine ‘peace’ negotiator, Keith Kellogg: 1. Ukraine’s membership in America’s anti-Russian military alliance NATO will be “delayed” (but will happen). 2. Russia will temporarily keep the five former regions of Ukraine that it now occupies, but Ukraine will continue to be their legal owner (and America will help Ukraine to get them back). 3. Sanctions against Russia will be partially lifted. 4. U.S. will continue arming Ukraine against Russia. 5. If Ukraine refuses to engage in peace talks with Russia, the U.S. might discontinue weapons-supplies to Ukraine.

However, now, Trump has changed #2, and, “Russia will have to give up all of Ukraine.” He is now reverting clearly to Biden’s full policy on Ukraine (which had simply continued Obama’s policy on Ukraine, ever since the war in Ukraine was started by Obama in 2014).

The reason why Trump is now committed to “Russia will have to give up all of Ukraine,” is that, as I explained in my May 9th “The U.S.-Ukraine minerals deal is much more favorable to the U.S. than to Ukraine.”, I described there the ways, and the extent to which, Ukraine’s government sold-out to America’s aristocracy Ukraine’s minerals-wealth in order to get the U.S. Government fully again into the U.S.-and-allied coalition to conquer Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine. America’s billionaires will benefit significantly from controlling Ukraine’s minerals if Russia will be forced out of Ukraine; and, so, they will be even more determined than they had been before, to conquer Russia in Ukraine. Trump’s now hiking America’s commitment up from “2. Russia will temporarily keep the five former regions of Ukraine that it now occupies” to instead “Russia will have to give up all of Ukraine. Because that’s what they want” reflects Trump’s victory over the existing government of Ukraine, and this statement by him is a warning to Russia that America will now be even more determined to conquer Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine than it had been under Biden. This ALSO shows that Trump’s OTHER prior statements softening America’s war against Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine — such as that America won’t send more troops into Ukraine — could likewise become no longer applicable.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.