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highplainsdem

(59,634 posts)
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 05:05 PM Apr 2025

Trump envoy: Ukraine could be divided like postwar Berlin

Source: The Times

President Trump’s envoy to Ukraine has said the country could be partitioned “almost like Berlin after World War Two” as part of a peace deal.

General Keith Kellogg, a leading figure in US efforts to end the three-year war, suggested that British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the west of the country as part of a “reassurance force”, with Russia’s army in the occupied east. Between them would be Ukrainian forces and a demilitarised zone.

Kellogg, 80, said the Anglo-French-led force west of the Dnipro river, which bisects Ukraine from north to south and runs through Kyiv, would “not be provocative at all” to Moscow. He said Ukraine was a big enough country to accommodate several armies seeking to enforce a ceasefire.

“You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War Two, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone, and a British zone, a US zone,” he said.

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Read more: https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/keith-kellogg-general-ukraine-envoy-trump-ldjprpzxt



Fuck, no.
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Trump envoy: Ukraine could be divided like postwar Berlin (Original Post) highplainsdem Apr 2025 OP
Partition russia Marthe48 Apr 2025 #1
NO! Nonnia Bisnez Apr 2025 #2
But we still get all of their minerals, right? nature-lover Apr 2025 #3
Or like Korea after WW2. That worked just great, didn't it, Kellogg? (nt) muriel_volestrangler Apr 2025 #4
F that! Tsf cronies really have no say anymore. The EU and other freedom loving countries are fully backing Ukraine PortTack Apr 2025 #5
Hitler and Stalin divided Poland. Kid Berwyn Apr 2025 #6
And after the war Retrograde Apr 2025 #21
Stalin also claimed the Kuril Islands in the closing days of WW2 Kid Berwyn Apr 2025 #25
A new Berlin Wall with guards to shoot people trying to escape? This is incredibly sick-minded. Hekate Apr 2025 #7
The river is, was and has been for decades the initial objective for the Russians. Cheezoholic Apr 2025 #8
Hitler and Stalin look up and approve HereForTheParty Apr 2025 #9
Hey dickhead did you ever visit Berlin or Germany during that time................. turbinetree Apr 2025 #10
I spent some time in Berlin in 1971. greatauntoftriplets Apr 2025 #26
Before the drunk Hegseth has this bit of history removed for that orange hair traitor.......... turbinetree Apr 2025 #30
Of course, I'd seen photos of the Wall. greatauntoftriplets Apr 2025 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author greatauntoftriplets Apr 2025 #27
Make Kellogg lonely bird Apr 2025 #11
I mean, it's not like Russia will just try and take the rest of the country, right? sakabatou Apr 2025 #12
Putin could also just be kick out republianmushroom Apr 2025 #13
NO! Never! Nada! Fu-uu-uu-uck no! NYET! FakeNoose Apr 2025 #14
Not even if hell freezes over!!!!! blue-wave Apr 2025 #15
Kellogg's trying to walk it back, sort of: Emrys Apr 2025 #16
Hey Keith... COL Mustard Apr 2025 #29
Go straight to hell. LudwigPastorius Apr 2025 #17
In other words Ukraine will have to surrender part of its land and the Ukrainian Citizens who live on .. Botany Apr 2025 #18
They need to get rid of that old fart..... Historic NY Apr 2025 #19
Disgusting pigs Prairie Gates Apr 2025 #20
Isn't That What Neville Chamberlain Did With Czechoslovakia DallasNE Apr 2025 #22
I can hear Reagan now Mblaze Apr 2025 #23
I didn't know there was anyone who thought the Berlin Wall was a good idea. JohnnyRingo Apr 2025 #24
Partition Kellogg into two parts. See if he likes it. Wonder Why Apr 2025 #28

PortTack

(35,810 posts)
5. F that! Tsf cronies really have no say anymore. The EU and other freedom loving countries are fully backing Ukraine
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 05:45 PM
Apr 2025

Kid Berwyn

(22,726 posts)
6. Hitler and Stalin divided Poland.
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 05:52 PM
Apr 2025

Putin and Trump want to divide Ukraine.

I'm beginning to sense a pattern.

Retrograde

(11,371 posts)
21. And after the war
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 11:33 PM
Apr 2025

Stalin took a large chunk of Poland and "gave" it to the Ukraine SSR (the Ukrainian city Lviv used to be the Polish Lwow). He previously deported all the Crimean Tatars to Uzbekistan, at least those he didn't outright kill or starve. Yes, definitely a pattern here.

Kid Berwyn

(22,726 posts)
25. Stalin also claimed the Kuril Islands in the closing days of WW2
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 08:55 AM
Apr 2025

The USSR had ceded them to Japan in exchange for Japan’s half of Sakhalin Island after WW1.
Like the say about location and valuation: money. And real estate is real property and nations, like people, murder for both.

Hekate

(100,131 posts)
7. A new Berlin Wall with guards to shoot people trying to escape? This is incredibly sick-minded.
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 06:00 PM
Apr 2025

Restore the Iron Curtain! Those were the good old days! Nuclear deterrence! Doctor Strangelove rides again.

Cheezoholic

(3,508 posts)
8. The river is, was and has been for decades the initial objective for the Russians.
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 06:37 PM
Apr 2025

Give them the river they take the country.

turbinetree

(26,932 posts)
10. Hey dickhead did you ever visit Berlin or Germany during that time.................
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 07:01 PM
Apr 2025

your an idiot..............a complete and total idiot...............that needs a rubber helmet to wear..............

greatauntoftriplets

(178,590 posts)
26. I spent some time in Berlin in 1971.
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:10 AM
Apr 2025

The Wall made me sick, as did the fear. We visited East Berlin. The stores' shelves were barely stocked. A hotel where we stopped for lunch was out of food at 1 p.m. There were still many bombed and burned-out buildings, something that you did not see in West Berlin.

turbinetree

(26,932 posts)
30. Before the drunk Hegseth has this bit of history removed for that orange hair traitor..........
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 04:26 PM
Apr 2025

Video: The Sweet Legacy of a Berlin Airlift Hero

When American and British forces embarked on a massive airlift mission to get food and other needed supplies to West Berliners in 1948, one young U.S. pilot came up with a way to sweeten the operation for German children.

Retired Air Force Col. Gail S. Halvorsen was a 27-year-old lieutenant in Cold War Germany when he noticed the conditions the children of Berlin were living in and wanted to help.

At first, he handed out gum and candy from his ration pack, but then began attaching handkerchief parachutes to chocolate bars and dropping them from his aircraft to the children below.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/3073227/the-sweet-legacy-of-a-berlin-airlift-hero/#:~:text=Gail%20Halvorsen%2C%20known%20as%20%22Candy,the%20air%20with%20tiny%20parachutes.


I was there in 1961 and I will never forgot my time there.............

greatauntoftriplets

(178,590 posts)
31. Of course, I'd seen photos of the Wall.
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 05:44 PM
Apr 2025

They didn't fully prepare me for the reality of the thing, or the no-man's land in between. I thought of the courage of everyone who had tried and/or succeeded to cross that to get to freedom. It was sobering, and it made me angry. I was so happy when the damned thing came down in 1989.

I've read the Gail Halvorsen story. He brought a lot of joy to kids during the Airlift. A wonderful man.

Response to turbinetree (Reply #10)

lonely bird

(2,709 posts)
11. Make Kellogg
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 07:22 PM
Apr 2025

Persona non gratis in Ukraine.

Absolute bunch of fucking, gutless imbeciles that fellate Putin.

sakabatou

(45,704 posts)
12. I mean, it's not like Russia will just try and take the rest of the country, right?
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 07:37 PM
Apr 2025

I fucking hate this administration.

republianmushroom

(22,122 posts)
13. Putin could also just be kick out
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 07:49 PM
Apr 2025

and leave the territory he is occupying. You know the lines that were agreed upon in the 1990's treaty. Trump and republicans still kissing Putin's ass.

blue-wave

(4,816 posts)
15. Not even if hell freezes over!!!!!
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 08:34 PM
Apr 2025

The Holodomor in The Donbas was genocide. The ethnic cleansing of Crimean's from the Crimean Peninsula was genocide. Russia then populated both places with ethnic Russians. Years later, Russia is claiming that it is the Russians in those areas that are suffering. Bullshit!!! We must never reward genocide for any reason.

COL Mustard

(7,929 posts)
29. Hey Keith...
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 09:45 AM
Apr 2025

Keep your fat fucking mouth shut. Every time you speak you show that you are dumber than your Orange Overlord.

Botany

(76,248 posts)
18. In other words Ukraine will have to surrender part of its land and the Ukrainian Citizens who live on ..
Fri Apr 11, 2025, 10:13 PM
Apr 2025

…. that land to Russia.

Non negotiable parts of any peace treaty:

*. Ukraine gets all of its lands back including the Crimea.

*. Ukraine controls what happens to the minerals under its own soil.

*. Russia has to pay for the damages it has caused.

*. Any Russian living on Ukrainian territory prior to 2014 can stay but they have to swear
loyalty to Ukraine.

Until then any Russian or N. Korean soldier on Ukrainian land can either surrender or die.

JohnnyRingo

(20,420 posts)
24. I didn't know there was anyone who thought the Berlin Wall was a good idea.
Sat Apr 12, 2025, 07:59 AM
Apr 2025

So the plan for "peace" would be Ukraine ceding their sovereignty to Europe, us, and Russia.
Pretty hollow victory.

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