Trump’s Peace Plan Is Putin’s Dream — And the GOP Backs It
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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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| 0:23.9 | They're finally doing it, folks. They've been signaling for a long time that we're just pro-Russia |
| 0:28.5 | now in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the White House is ready |
| 0:33.9 | to put it on paper, make it official, rolling out a quote-unquote peace proposal that |
| 0:39.4 | would essentially codify most of what Russia has hoped to get out of this conflict for |
| 0:44.6 | at least the past year. |
| 0:46.4 | So we just wanted to break it down a little bit. |
| 0:48.5 | Here's the headline from the New York Times just a little bit ago. |
| 0:51.1 | Vice President J.D. Vance on Wednesday called on Ukraine to accept an |
| 0:54.1 | American peace proposal that closely mirrors longstanding Russian demands, including a freeze of |
| 0:59.0 | territorial lines in the three-year war, acceptance of the annexation of Crimea by Russia, and a |
| 1:04.1 | prohibition on Ukraine becoming part of the NATO alliance. There's been indications. This has been |
| 1:09.0 | the direction things have been moving, but here it is kind of on paper. They're saying Ukraine, it's time to, it's time to accept this, |
| 1:15.9 | or else is basically the line. What do you make of all this bill? Where are we today? |
| 1:19.5 | So a couple of things. As you say, they've been going in this direction from, well, January 20th or |
| 1:23.4 | really since Trump's campaign. And so this is in a way simply the next step. Maybe it's a decisive |
| 1:30.4 | step, I think, though the others were pretty decisive before this. But I think it's a coordinated |
| 1:35.3 | thing. I think that's one point to make. Trump pops off sometimes, Vance pops off, Rubio does, |
| 1:39.6 | you're not sure. Well, if they really discussed this, is this really the administration position? |
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