While during the campaign he promised without a quiver that he would end the war in Ukraine, now that he is only a few days away from arriving in the White House, Trump and his team are questioning one of his main foreign policy promises.
Trump's advisers now acknowledge that the war in Ukraine could take months or even longer to resolve. Two aides to the president-elect who have spoken to him about the matter told Reuters that they were looking at a timeframe of several months to resolve the conflict, describing the promise of "ending the war on day one" as a combination of campaign chaos, a lack of proper appreciation of the complexity of the conflict and the time it would take to form a new administration staff, A2 CNN reports.
The comments echo those of Trump's envoy for the Ukraine-Russia war, General Keith Kellogg. The latter told Fox News in an interview that he would like to have a resolution to the war within 100 days, beyond the original deadline set by the president. Yet even Kellogg's new extended deadline is too optimistic, according to John Herbst, a former US ambassador to Ukraine who now works for the Atlantic Council Think Tank in Washington, A2 CNN reports.
"For this to work, Trump must convince President Putin that there is a price to pay for dissent."
Even Trump himself, who during the campaign declared dozens of times that he would end the war from the first day in office, has gradually changed his rhetoric, initially saying that he could resolve the conflict very quickly, and then simply that he would resolve it without setting any deadline. The president-elect has also stated that ending the war in Ukraine would be more difficult than achieving a ceasefire in Gaza, writes A2 CNN.
Russia has also conveyed mixed messages about a possible deal, welcoming the invitation to talks with Trump on the one hand, but rejecting as unacceptable some of the ideas proposed by his advisers, on the other. (A2 Televizion)
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