What is behind the “Pompeo plan”?
30.07.2024
US presidential candidate Donald Trump may create a $500 billion Lend-Lease program for Ukraine if he wins the election, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote in a column for в колонке для The Wall Street Journal.
How realistic is this plan? Charter97.org spoke with Ukrainian political scientist, professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Petro Oleschuk:
— The question is to what extent Trump himself shares this plan. So far, there are no signs indicating that he shares such ideas. In general, it is difficult to talk about any systemic ideas of Trump.
For example, what James Vance said publicly contradicts this plan, namely, Trump chose Vance as his vice president. So far, this looks like just an attempt to present something in the information space, to lobby for the interests of Ukraine.
It is worth understanding that of the people in the former Trump administration, Pompeo has always been one of the most pro-Ukrainian. He has repeatedly spoken out in support of the Ukrainians. Let me emphasize that I consider this plan as an attempt to lobby for the interests of Ukraine among the Republicans and Trump’s entourage.
— It is noteworthy that more drastic “peace plans” began to appear in Trump’s team after Harris replaced Biden. Is there a connection here?
— They began to appear earlier. I think there is a connection with the fact that Trump avoids specifics on the issue of Ukraine. He tries in every possible way to avoid this topic. Although it is probably significant, including from the point of view of the American elections.
On the one hand, many see this as a risk (allegedly Trump will dramatically change American policy), on the other hand, someone sees this as an opportunity. After all, while Trump has not officially formulated his position on many issues, you can help him with this. Moreover, it seems that for Trump this issue is not key in terms of his policy, as are most foreign policy issues in general.
Trump’s constant in foreign policy: support for Israel, a wall with Mexico, confrontation with China and the demand that allies spend more money on defense. Everything else is not something decisive for Trump. Therefore, Trump can be influenced.
As for the presidential campaign in the United States, Kamala Harris, apparently, has a chance of winning. Moreover, she demonstrated a record in collecting money for her election funds. It is obvious that she was able to reboot the Democrats’ campaign, now they do not feel like a losing party in advance.
Naturally, this does not guarantee anything. Moreover, everything will be decided in a limited number of states, where the position of voters is changing. Everything will depend on many factors: whether Trump will make significant mistakes, how he will conduct the campaign, who Harris will choose as vice president. There are chances. The Americans themselves have realized this. This is evident from the activation of the election process.
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“How realistic is this plan?”
With the orange yo-yo? Unrealistic, semi-realistic, and quite realistic. You just don’t know with the orange yo-yo.
Our best bet is to hope that Harris will win and that she and her security adviser have more intelligence and more balls than Biden and Sullivan. Surely, the latter shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve?!
The Pompeo plan has elements that the Ukrainians could work with.
Problem is, it’s the opposite of what Trumpkov has said : amongst other things, accusing Zel as being a cheap grifter; and done : hiring as his VP a cretin with the same views as Moscow Marge.
Why has Boris allowed himself to be a land for peace advocate all of a sudden? Why isn’t he on board with the much better Pompeo proposal?
I wish I had answers to all the questions that we have.
What Trump will do is hard to say. He’s been all over the map. The appointment of Vance as running mate is not a good indication. Vance is a modern Chamberlain and wants to abandon Ukraine. If he gets his way, it would be a massive shame to teh US and would mean the ultimate removal of teh US as an international player. Putin trolls will then learn, the hard way, what poverty means.
“What Trump will do is hard to say.”
And that’s what the problem is. He is not very consistent sometimes. But, he does seem to be consistent about what he’s planning with Ukraine. But don’t ask me what it is, because I have no idea.