{"id":829981,"date":"2025-02-26T12:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/trumps-peace-talks-with-putin\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T18:12:36","slug":"trumps-peace-talks-with-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/trumps-peace-talks-with-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s peace talks with Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img alt=\"logoff_1920x1280 (2)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\"   src=\"https:\/\/platform.vox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/logoff_1920x1280-2.png?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&#038;w=2400\"><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"logoff_1920x1280 (2)\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\"   src=\"https:\/\/platform.vox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/logoff_1920x1280-2.png?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C100&#038;w=2400\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><cite>Joey Sendaydiego for Vox<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"zephr-anchor\">\n<p><em>The Logoff is a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/pages\/logoff-newsletter-trump-administration-updates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Subscribe here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome to The Logoff. <\/strong>Today we\u2019re focusing on the Trump administration\u2019s new Ukraine policy, a shift with major implications for the war and for the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the latest? <\/strong>Donald Trump today said he and Vladimir Putin had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/12\/trump-putin-negotiate-end-war-ukraine-00203838\">agreed to start peace talks<\/a> in Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said it was unrealistic for Ukraine to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/02\/12\/hegseth-calls-ukraines-return-to-old-borders-unrealistic-00203799\">recover all of the land<\/a> it has lost since Russia invaded in 2014. Hegseth also said the US would not commit its military to protect Ukraine after the war and that the US would not support Ukraine joining NATO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How is that different from Biden-era Ukraine policies?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><span>The Biden administration had said it would continue supporting Ukraine \u201cas long as it takes\u201d and that it would make no arrangements for Ukraine\u2019s future without Ukrainian involvement. Trump initiated peace talks without Ukraine\u2019s assent. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Biden had publicly committed to Ukraine keeping all its territory, but even the country\u2019s staunchest allies admitted that was probably an impossibility. So Hegseth\u2019s statements there are more a reflection of reality than a shift in policy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the upside to the new policy? <\/strong>Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine has caused mass casualties and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/ukraine-refugees-invasion-russia-putin-airstrikes-1318871\/\">human suffering<\/a>. A peace deal would end that \u2014 if it holds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the downside? <\/strong>Ukrainians fear a peace deal will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/world-politics\/395105\/ukraine-russia-ceasefire-deal-trump\">a pause in hostilities, rather than an end to them<\/a>. They fear that Putin will see that he can use force to gain territory, use the peace deal as a pause to rebuild his military, and then invade again \u2014 this time without as much US resistance. Keeping Ukraine out of NATO was also a key Russian priority, and consenting to that and other Putin demands in advance also forfeits US leverage in eventual talks. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"and-with-that-its-time-to-log-off\">\n<h3>And with that, it\u2019s time to log off &#8230;<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Need a reminder that humanity can still do amazing things? Researchers are making progress on vaccines that you can get via nasal spray, with no needles required. It\u2019s a development that could encourage more people to get vaccinated \u2014 and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/392145\/nasal-vaccines-covid-flu-needles-public-health\">make vaccines more effective<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Patrick Reis<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/399539\/trump-ukraine-peace-talks-russia-putin-the-logoff\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Sendaydiego for Vox The Logoff is a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here . Welcome to The Logoff. Today we\u2019re focusing on the Trump administration\u2019s new Ukraine policy, a shift with major implications for the war and for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":829982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24923,163],"tags":[11293,5123],"class_list":{"0":"post-829981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peace","8":"category-trumps","9":"tag-peace","10":"tag-trumps"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}