PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: Trump Envoy Reveals NATO Troop Deployment Plans for Ukraine

Putin’s failure to be prepared for conflict with the West in Ukraine and his withholding of military victory has produced a dangerous situation

BY CRAIG PAUL ROBERTS

I have been wondering if the Trump regime’s peace negotiations are sincere. The plan revealed by Trump’s envoy Keith Kellogg indicates that the negotiations are not sincere.

Putin, Lavrov and Security Council Secretary Shoigu, the former Minister of Defense, have all made it clear that NATO troops in Ukraine are unacceptable and could result in World War III.

So why has Kellogg supported, or arranged, a joint statement by the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the U.K. pledging “robust security guarantees for Ukraine,” consisting of “a coalition of air, land, and maritime reassurance forces that could help create confidence in any future peace and support the regeneration of Ukraine’s armed forces”?

This is certainly not the demilitarization of Ukraine that the Kremlin requires, and protection by NATO forces is the same as being a member of NATO.