26 January 2025

Second Trump Term Means a New Chapter for Ukraine | Opinion

Steve Cortes

With the overwhelming election of President Donald Trump to a second term, America welcomes an opportunity to reorient its foreign policy in a manner that prioritizes the security of the American homeland. The collapse in border sovereignty plus horrific recent attacks like the New Orleans massacre convince Americans that the meddling globalism of Joe Biden and the Washington foreign policy establishment has not served America's strategic or economic interests.

As part of this policy reckoning, President Trump promises to bring an end to the disastrous Russia-Ukraine war. This war of Russian aggression brought untold misery to both Russia and Ukraine, plus massive debt-financed expenditures from American taxpayers.

But now, with Trump back in office and the promise of negotiations renewed, a new chapter can unfold for both Washington and Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was supposed to submit to voters last year at the end of his five-year presidential term. He used the war to postpone elections. Of course, America has held elections during every war in its long democratic history, including during our own bloody Civil War, but nonetheless, most of the Western world excused this Zelensky postponement.


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