Trump has breached one of the promises that most repeated during his campaign: ending the Ukraine War. The US president had promised end the conflict “in 24 hours” or “before even arriving at the Oval Office”, although almost a week of taking possession has passed and there is no progress on this promise.
In fact, Trump no mention of the conflict in the investiture speech last Monday. Yes, he proclaimed himself as a “peacemaker,” but did not make a specific reference to any conflict.
Specifically, the first time Trump of Russia has spoken as president has been for Threatening the country with tariffsas he warned in Davos’s World Economic Forum. There he said that he wanted to meet immediately with Putin and warned him that lengthening the war would only worsen the current state of the Russian economy.
From “in less than 24 hours” to “a period of 100 days”
“Before even arriving at the Oval Office, Shortly after reaching the presidency, I will have resolved the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine. “These were Trump’s exact words in one of his mitines in June about the conflict that has been latent almost three years (it began on February 22, 2022).
Then, in the presidential debate with Kamala Harris he went to more and assured that he would solve it “even before reaching the presidency.” Then, in October when there were just a few days for the elections he insisted again, although this time he did not talk about deadlines and reduced expectations: “I will fix Russia and Ukraine as long as I am elected president.” In this way, Trump has gone from fixing the conflict in one day Do not mention a specific period.
From Trump’s own team, specifically Trump’s own special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellog, in an interview with Fox News has been in charge of asking A term of 100 days To negotiate peace.
Trump has threatened tariffs, but wants to meet “immediately” with Putin
Trump has been Very critical of the administration of Joe Bidenwhose strategy was based on sending armament to Ukraine to repel the Russian aggression. Something that they do not share from the Republican team, since the new United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, explained that the new government’s policy will be Find a truce agreement betting on dialogue.
Trump himself, in addition, has affirmed that much of the strategy depends on his direct interaction with the Russian president. Although, in Davos’s World Economic Forum, although Trump insisted on meeting “immediately” with Putin, he also launched a warning and threatened Russia – and other countries – with duty. Although this threat does not have great importance because trade between the two countries has been very limited In recent times and since 2022, the United States has already applied numerous sanctions to Russia.
From Moscow they have not been surprised and have affirmed that This will not prevent it from being dialogue with the United States and that they are waiting for “signals” from the White House. However, although Putin has been open to negotiate, he has not changed his requests for a future peace agreement. Among them stay with the occupied territory, something they don’t see with good eyes from kyiv.
Postures far away between Russia and Ukraine
For his part, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has asked Russia and Ukraine to make “concessions” and admitted that “It is not realistic” wanting to restore the previous borders To the invasion. The American vice president, JD Vance, has proposed that Russia could keep the occupied areas and establish a demilitarized area along the battle zone with the fortified Ukrainian part so that there is no other Russian invasion.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski He also spoke in Davos and showed his concern for the way of proceeding from Europe and NATO with Trump. In the same way, he encouraged Europe to strengthen its unit and warned that it cannot be left behind.
The positions of Russia and Ukraine They are still very remote, So Trump’s promise is further complicated. In this week, Russia has followed its offensives in Ukraine -Wednesday Russia announced the capture of the Zapadne village, in Járkov, and is approaching Dnipro.