Saturday, 31 May 2025

Wary Of Trump Bearing Peace Deals

I'm not a negotiator but if i was to give some advice to someone i would say if the other side agrees to the conditions immediately, you can bet it is because it is weighted in their favour.
Donald Trump's team tried to bounce Ukraine into an agreement which heavilly favoured Putin who said he was all for it but Zelenskyy was too street wise for that and dug his heels in and refused to sign up to it.
The Americans then put forward a peace deal to end the war in Gaza which Israel agreed to immediately but Hamas are at this moment, continuing to mull over and the mood music is that it is very much a reward to Israel for their genocide and Hamas will make a counter-offer to balance things up.
It could be that Donald Trump is genuinely keen to end wars whenever they flare up but Hamas and the Ukrainians do no appear to trust him and with good reason, everything so far has been to bring an end to the wars by making the victims lose more than the perpetrators, less so in the case of Hamas, but certainly the Palestinians will stand to lose out with Israel continuing the genocide and controlling Gaza while snatching away their land, a return to the status quo which has seen Israel eroding the Palestinians over the last 70 years.
One view is that Trump will do anything to secure himself a Nobel Peace Prize, including stitching up the Ukrainians and Palestinians with Ukraine losing as much as a quarter of its land and the Palestinians returning to the position of being murdered and their land stolen which saw them turn to Hamas in the first place.
We can only hope that Trump is authentic in wanting to end these wars and if he can bring a lasting peace then he fully deserves the Noble Prize but he has proved to be nothing more than a  narcissist who has a strange crush on despots and blatantly backs Israel and Russia, i would be very wary of signing up to anything he proposes because it may bring a temporary belief from the slaughter, but without deeper and more thoughtful resolutions, they will flare up again.