https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-ukraine-envoy-has-a-hard-climb-to-any-peace-deal-ac728e58?st=iAqM83&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
" Trump’s Ukraine Envoy Has a Hard Climb to Any Peace Deal
Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg has plan for ending war, but president will control talks"
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"Like some of Trump’s other special envoys, he appears to have been named despite a lack of relevant expertise. Kellogg’s past military experience could be important to the president as he weighs the consequences of extending or withholding aid to Ukraine, former colleagues say.
But he has never served as a diplomat, and if his experience in the White House is any indication, he won’t partake in any real negotiations with Russia, his former colleagues say.
“Trump enjoys his company and sees him as a fiercely loyal guy, but he has never exerted any kind of meaningful policy influence,” said one former National Security Council staffer who worked with him in the Trump administration. “He’s certainly not going to come up with anything that deviates from where Trump’s head is.”
Kellogg, a decorated Vietnam-era veteran who rose to become a lieutenant general in the army, has lately been publicly buttressing the notion that Ukraine can make battlefield gains against Russia with U.S. assistance. He has praised the Biden administration’s decision to give more potent weapons to Ukraine, saying it gives Trump leverage in coming talks, and suggested that more weaponry to Ukraine might be used as a cudgel to get Moscow to negotiate.
Russia, meanwhile, has expressed no interest in engaging Kellogg. The Kremlin has suggested that chemistry between Trump and Putin could lead to better relations with the U.S. under a Trump presidency, but it has also inferred that Trump might fall under the spell of America’s dreaded deep state that he was elected under a promise to uproot.
Both Trump and the Kremlin have denied speaking personally for months, but have promised to do so soon.
Bolton fears Trump in coming talks could force Kyiv into ruinous concessions to Moscow “because I think Putin knows how to play Trump,” and Kellogg is unlikely to serve as a check against Putin’s influence. “He’ll simply do what Trump tells him to do,” Bolton said of Kellogg. “He might protest briefly, but Trump didn’t pick Kellogg for his independent judgment.”"
tl;dr: Kellogg er blanda drops for alle parter, unntatt Trump selv.
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