{"id":593936,"date":"2025-11-26T01:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593936\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:04:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:04:22","slug":"trump-humiliated-in-peace-talks-putin-set-to-weaken-the-resolve-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/593936\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Humiliated in Peace Talks: Putin Set to &#8216;Weaken the Resolve of the United States&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fa\u00e7ade of control surrounding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/topics\/donald-trump\" data-sys=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s peace negotiations appears to be crumbling, exposing a stark reality where the Kremlin holds the cards. Even the President&#8217;s staunchest allies are finding it impossible to defend the current trajectory of the talks to end the war in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/topics\/ukraine\" data-sys=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not even the most loyal henchmen in the administration can deny that Vladimir Putin is effectively dictating the terms of the proposed peace plan.<\/p>\n<p>NATO Ambassador Admitted &#8216;Some Truth&#8217; to Claims of Kremlin Dominance<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday morning, NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker appeared on Fox News Business and conceded a damaging point regarding the months-long negotiations. Faced with analysis that the Russian dictator has refused to yield a single inch, Whitaker admitted there is &#8216;some truth&#8217; to the claims. The admission came during an appearance on Mornings with Maria, where host Maria Bartiromo played a clip of retired Gen. Jack Keane dismantling the perception of progress.<\/p>\n<p>Keane argued that Putin is operating in a win-win situation, refusing concessions to prolong the killing. According to the general, the Russian leader believes this strategy will &#8216;weaken the resolve of the United States and its leadership,&#8217; he added. When Bartiromo pressed Whitaker\u2014who has previously been lauded as an aggressive media surrogate for Trump\u2014he could not offer a rebuttal.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the former acting Attorney General conceded that Keane&#8217;s assessment wasn&#8217;t false. &#8216;There is some truth to what the general says,&#8217; said Whitaker. He attempted to pivot, noting that &#8216;let&#8217;s remember there&#8217;s no perfect answer to this situation,&#8217; and insisted the administration is &#8216;negotiating a peace deal from reality.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Why Lawmakers Slammed the &#8216;Surrender Document&#8217; Written for Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>The admission follows a weekend of bipartisan outrage directed at the initial draft of Trump&#8217;s 28-point peace plan. Presided over by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, the document faced accusations of being a total capitulation to Moscow. Critics noted it required Ukraine to surrender territory, abandon NATO aspirations, and invite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/topics\/russia\" data-sys=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a> back into the G8.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash was severe, with some accusations suggesting the proposal read as if it were written in Moscow before being presented as a US-led proposal. In response to the outcry, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revised a new, 19-point plan that Ukraine has tentatively agreed to, CNN reported. However, the internal discord highlights the chaos behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Many members of Trump&#8217;s own party have cast doubt on his administration&#8217;s ceasefire plans. GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick described the initial proposal as &#8216;nothing more than Russia&#8217;s absurd wish list that should be dismissed and shredded for the garbage that it is.&#8217; Rep. Don Bacon was equally scathing, writing on Monday that the Witkoff proposal was &#8216;a surrender document for Ukraine that would have left it at the mercy of Russia for decades to come.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s History of Failed Summits and &#8216;Bad Timing&#8217; with Putin<\/p>\n<p>While Bacon welcomed Rubio&#8217;s involvement and noted the plan was getting &#8216;better,&#8217; the struggle to extract concessions fits a pattern. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, a Yale law-school buddy of JD Vance&#8217;s, has now taken centre stage to deliver the latest proposal. Yet, Trump has a long history of letting Putin get what he wants.<\/p>\n<p>Only three months ago, the President rolled out the red carpet for a summit in Alaska that ultimately flopped. Trump emerged with little to show for the effort, save for a puzzling lecture from Putin on eliminating &#8216;all the primary root causes&#8217; of his full-scale assault on Ukraine. More recently, Trump was forced to cancel a planned meeting in Hungary intended to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>Publicly, Trump chalked up the blunder to &#8216;bad timing,&#8217; even as top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/topics\/white-house\" data-sys=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House<\/a> officials privately acknowledged that the tone of the meeting&#8217;s arrangements had doomed the talks before they even began. Trump expressed his frustration to reporters on Air Force One in October, stating, &#8216;I&#8217;m not gonna be wasting my time.&#8217; He lamented the situation, noting, &#8216;I&#8217;ve always had a great relationship with Vladimir Putin, but this has been very disappointing.&#8217; It seems the <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trumps-ambassador-admits-putins-pulling-string-on-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\">sources<\/a> of his frustration are far from over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fa\u00e7ade of control surrounding Donald Trump&#8216;s peace negotiations appears to be crumbling, exposing a stark reality where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[32,186812,186813,186814,49,978,186815,2581,86727,659,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-593936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-donald-trump-vladimir-putin","10":"tag-donald-trump-ally","11":"tag-putin-weakening-us","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-us-russia-peace-deal","15":"tag-us-president-donald-trump","16":"tag-us-russia-relations","17":"tag-usa","18":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115613313457548883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}