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Keith Kellogg.

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This is hell 🙃

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Ukraine war

Trump's Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg postponed his trip to Kyiv until after the inauguration

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Latest on Trump: CIA buyouts, tariffs, Ukraine

Not even a month after his inauguration, US President Donald Trump has stepped up his foreign policy efforts, from the American continent to Europe and the Middle East. The CIA announces sweeping layoffs, while Mexico and Canada temporarily cancel tariffs.

Layoffs and kickbacks

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offered buyouts to all of its employees on Tuesday, citing a goal to align the agency with US President Donald Trump’s priorities. A CIA spokesman said the move was intended to bring the agency in line with the policies of new CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

Director Ratcliffe is moving swiftly to ensure the CIA workforce is responsive to the Administration’s national security priorities. These moves are part of a holistic strategy to infuse the Agency with renewed energy.

The agency did not disclose its budget or number of employees. The reported buyout offers correspond to a sweeping overhaul of the US government launched by the Trump administration, which has fired and suspended hundreds of government employees as part of its first steps to cut bureaucracy.

Ratcliffe, a former member of the House of Representatives who served as director of National Intelligence during Trump’s first term, was confirmed by the US Senate to be CIA director days after Trump took office for a second term.

On Tuesday, Trump also said he believes he will wind down the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The agency faced challenges amid a freeze on most foreign aid funds to check whether they matched the interests of the US.

He’s [Elon Musk who accused USAID of being a “criminal” organisation] done a great job. Look at all the fraud that he’s found in this USAID. (…) Nobody could approve that. They [‘radical left lunatics’] can only approve that if they were getting kickbacks.

Potential trade war

Trade seemed to have moved to the back burner amid the government’s immigration initiatives. However, that all changed last weekend when Trump announced comprehensive 25% tariffs on US allies Canada and Mexico, as well as 10% duties on Chinese imports.

Trump said he viewed the tariffs not only as a tool to achieve political goals, but also as a permanent source of US revenue and a means of funding government programmes and reducing the budget deficit.

After talks with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump put the tariffs on pause. Although the new duties on China went into effect and prompted retaliatory measures from Beijing, markets found the US moves to be less disruptive and smaller in scale than they could have been.

In contrast, if the US were to impose a series of escalating tariffs with Canada and Mexico on more than $1.57 trillion of goods, the global economic impact could be catastrophic, analysts said.

Mexico, meanwhile, pledged to step up anti-drug measures and commit 10,000 troops to patrol the US-Mexico border. However, those numbers reflected the number of troops the country had deployed in 2019 and 2021.

War in Ukraine

The US president said at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US was negotiating a war between Ukraine and Russia.

We’re having very good talks, very constructive talks on Ukraine. And we’re talking to the Russians, we’re talking to Ukrainian leadership.

Trump voiced hope that deals would be reached as soon as possible. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed that his country needed security guarantees before returning to the negotiating table. Russia, for its part, underlined that it would negotiate only with the legally elected government of Ukraine.

In early February, Trump said that his administration had already held “very serious” talks with Russia on the war in Ukraine and that both he and Russian President Vladimir Putin could soon take “significant” action to put an end to the conflict.

We will be speaking, and I think will perhaps do something that’ll be significant. We want to end that war. That war would have not started if I was president.

Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, also said in an interview that presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine, suspended during the war with Russia, “need to be done.”

Most democratic nations have elections in their time of war. I think it is important they do so.I think it is good for democracy. That’s the beauty of a solid democracy, you have more than one person potentially running.

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Ucrania, incapaz de frenar a Rusia, pide tropas a Occidente

Por Juan Antonio Sanz Periodista y analista para Público en temas internacionales. Especialista universitario en Servicios de Inteligencia e Historia Militar. Ninguneado por Trump, Zelenski utiliza su último cartucho y reclama la entrada de tropas occidentales en Ucrania y su implicación directa en la guerra contra Rusia.      El presidente electo estadounidense, Donald Trump, que asumirá su…

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[gwydionmisha]

I suspect this will go out the window because Trump wants us to be Putin's puppet state, but here it is anyway.

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Keith Kellogg, President-elect Donald Trump's chosen Ukraine - Russia ambassador to end the conflict outlined his ideas on a formal US policy to seek a ceasefire and negotiated settlement in a research paper entitled "America First, Russia, & Ukraine," published in America First Policy Institute on April 9, 2024.

https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/america-first-russia-ukraine

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Trump nomeia general reformado como enviado para Ucrânia e Rússia

Keith Kellogg, então conselheiro de segurança nacional do vice-presidente Mike Pence, fala à imprensa durante coletiva na Casa Branca, em 22 de setembro de 2020, em Washington© Saul Loeb

O presidente eleito dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, escolheu, nesta quarta-feira (27), o general reformado Keith Kellogg, um de seus apoiadores incondicionais, como futuro enviado para a Ucrânia e a Rússia.

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Trump nomeia general reformado como enviado para Ucrânia e Rússia

[theorderofthetriad]

Me, whenever I see a big tumblr post about Kellogg's cornflakes and John Harvey Kellogg being anti-masturbation: they don't know about the Kellogg brother.

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A bowl of Froot Loops. 🥣🦜🟠🔴🟢🟣🥛

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Donald Trump has appointed retired General Keith Kellogg as his special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. With deep military experience and a firm 'America First' policy, Kellogg faces the challenge of resolving one of the world’s most pressing conflicts. Will his leadership bring an end to the war? Find out in this detailed analysis!

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Ukraine

US demands Ukrainian elections

This video describes the military situation in Ukraine on the 3rd of February 2025

Trump promised to end this war in 24 hours

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Trump’s pick for special envoy to Ukraine wants to force Ukrainians to negotiate with Russia by holding aid hostage.

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he has selected retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg to be his special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, a position focused on ending the two-year-long war. Kellogg previously served as both national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence and National Security Council chief of staff during Trump’s first term.  

“I am very pleased to nominate General Keith Kellogg to serve as Assistant to the President and Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Keith has led a distinguished Military and Business career, including serving in highly sensitive National Security roles in my first Administration. He was with me right from the beginning! Together, we will secure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, and Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN!”

Last spring, Kellogg proposed forcing an ultimatum on Ukraine: Engage in peace talks in order to keep receiving aid. The plan, which was put forward with the help of Fred Fleitz, his successor as chief of staff at the National Security Council, would also force Russia to the negotiating table by agreeing to hold off on Ukraine’s admission to NATO. Under the plan, the cease-fire would take place along existing battle lines.

Kellogg’s views align well with an incoming administration that seems to have little interest in providing aid to Ukrainians, even as Russia is advancing through the country faster than ever.

Vice President–elect JD Vance is similarly opposed to more assistance. South Dakota Governor and Homeland Security secretary nominee Kristi Noem is opposed to more assistance as well, saying that the war is “Europe’s fight, not ours.”

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Der designierte US-Präsident Donald Trump hat den Ex-General Keith Kellogg als seinen Sondergesandten für die Ukraine und Russland nominiert. Kellogg war während Trumps Amtszeit von 2017 bis Anfang 2021 Stabschef des Nationalen Sicherheitsrats im Weißen Haus und Sicherheitsberater des damaligen Vizepräsidenten Mike Pence.

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Der 80-jährige Kellogg habe Trump einen Plan zur Beendigung des Krieges vorgelegt, sagten drei mit der Angelegenheit vertraute Insider der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters. Der Plan sieht demnach vor, die Frontlinien an ihren aktuellen Positionen einzufrieren und die Regierungen in Kiew und Moskau an den Verhandlungstisch zu zwingen.

Kellogg soll seinen Plan für die Ukraine zusammen mit Fred Fleitz entworfen haben, der ebenfalls als Stabschef des Nationalen Sicherheitsrats unter Trump tätig war. Nach ihren Vorschlägen würden die USA der Ukraine nur weitere Waffen liefern, wenn sie in Friedensgespräche eintritt. Gleichzeitig würde die USA Russland warnen, dass jede Weigerung zu verhandeln zu einer verstärkten Unterstützung der Ukraine führen würde. Eine NATO-Mitgliedschaft der Ukraine wäre vorerst vom Tisch.

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