US official heading Ukraine peace plan has history of empathizing with Russia
#Keith #Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy, has written op-eds and reports questioning Ukraine’s role in negotiations
Kellogg also blamed the war on the machinations of a US “military-industrial complex”
and “[Joe] Biden’s national security incompetence”
rather than Russia’s 2022 invasion,
which has been condemned across the globe and resulted in a war that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
Kellogg has been seen as a hawk on Russia, but he also wrote that
“the US should consider leveraging its military aid to Ukraine to make it contingent on Ukrainian officials agreeing to join peace talks with Russia”.
Earlier this month, after a disastrous Washington DC meeting with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on 28 February, US aid to Ukraine was paused,
as was intelligence sharing.
Kellogg is also surrounded by some key staff who share a rightwing nationalist world view or have links to far-right populist figures.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/15/keith-kellogg-ukraine-russia-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other