Vladimir Putin is “scared to death” of Donald Trump and will prepare for his impending presidency, an informed source said.
Dr. Kevin Roberts, who has close ties to the president-elect, told The Sun that Trump would end the Ukraine war within days of taking office.
He said Ukraine would have to make some sacrifices to stop the bloodshed being committed by Putin's meat grinder forces.
Roberts said that would mean giving up Russian-controlled territory in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions in eastern Ukraine.
Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation think tank, added that for now, for any peace deal to succeed, Kiev would also have to give up any dream of joining NATO to have any hope of stopping the bombs.
“Under Donald Trump, the Ukraine war will be over within days,” Roberts told The Sun.
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He added: “Putin is afraid to death of Trump, but it is unfortunate that Ukraine needs to give up territory for that to happen.”
Last night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed his willingness to sign a peace deal – and suggested this would include temporarily halting the fighting and giving up territory already occupied by Russia.
The brave warlord said the rest of Ukraine must join NATO if he wanted to stop the fighting on the front lines.
But Putin is unlikely to allow such a deal to be concluded.
“There is no way Ukraine is going to be part of NATO,” Roberts said, claiming that this is part of the reason tyrant Putin invaded Ukraine in the first place.
The head of the think tank noted how Putin views NATO expansion — and any inclusion of Ukraine in the military alliance — as an existential threat to Russia.
Roberts said Ukraine would “tragically” have to submit to Putin's heavy demands and give up some territory, but he said that would allow Trump to end the war within days.
The Washington-based think tank Roberts Center has close ties to the incoming Trump administration and is helping to shape policy in the United States.
Trump pledged during his victorious election campaign that he would settle the Ukrainian war “within 24 hours” of assuming the White House in January.
The Republican did not explain how he would end the war so quickly, but Roberts said it would likely mean Ukraine surrendering territory now occupied by Russia.
Within days of Joe Biden's crushing defeat, the president-elect received a phone call from Putin warning him against escalating the war.
Insiders say an upbeat Putin is open to discussing a peace deal with Trump — but on his own tough terms.
The Russian dictator on Thursday praised Trump as a “smart and experienced” politician capable of finding “solutions.”
Putin criticized Biden for creating “additional difficulties” for Trump's presidency after America granted Kiev permission to launch long-range ATACMS missiles and British Storm Shadow weapons at Russia.
Kiev launched ATACMS missiles against Putin's territory on November 11 – and British Storm Shadow missiles just two days later.
In retaliation, Putin unleashed his new Oreshnik hypersonic missile on the Ukrainians, with the roving tyrant hailing the weapon as unbeatable.
An Oreshnyk missile penetrated Ukrainian defenses and dropped cluster warheads on the city of Dnipro in an early morning lightning attack earlier this week.
Furthermore, 90 cruise missiles and suicide drones bombed Ukraine's energy infrastructure, plunging the country into darkness.
Amid the terrifying escalation, Roberts and those close to Trump hope that the president-elect will end the carnage and bloodshed within days of entering the White House.
Putin's meat-grinding forces – despite the heavy losses they suffered on Thursday with 2,000 killed – are still storming Ukraine at an alarming rate.
The dire forecast is that the warmongers have managed to gain just under 100 square miles in the past month.
They take photos the size of two football fields every minute, according to the United States War Institute.
In a rambling speech, Putin suggested a “solution” could be reached shortly after Trump took office.
“As far as I can imagine, the new president-elect is a really smart and experienced person,” he said Thursday.
“I think he will find a solution.”
Trump has long criticized the billions spent by the Biden administration to support Ukraine, and there are concerns that he may withdraw from NATO.
This would leave Europe struggling to pick up the slack without US military power and assets worth $3.8 trillion.
Roberts said Trump was tired of countries like Germany and France wagging their fingers at the United States to divert more money to defending Europe as part of NATO.
He pointed to the failure of nearly 20 countries, including France, Germany, Italy and Spain, to pay the required 2 percent of their gross domestic product for defence.
Between 2021 and 2024, the United States was among the largest contributors, paying just over 16 percent.
This comes as the head of Britain's MI6 warned – in a letter partly directed at Trump – that a Russian victory in Ukraine would threaten American and European security.
Richard Moore, the head of MI6, said Putin was waging an “astonishingly reckless” campaign of sabotage against Ukraine's Western allies.
He explained: “We recently exposed a stunningly reckless campaign of Russian subversion in Europe, even as Putin and his cronies resort to nuclear weapons to sow fear about the consequences of helping Ukraine.
He added, “Such activity and discourse are dangerous and exceed the point of irresponsibility.”
Donald Trump's government choices
In the days following his dominant Election Day victory, President-elect Donald Trump has begun shaping his future administration.
Below is a list of Trump's confirmed Cabinet picks:
- Susie Wells – White House Chief of Staff
- Stephen Miller – Deputy Chief of Staff
- Bill McGinley – White House Counsel
- Tom Homanformer Acting Director of ICE – “Border Czar”
- Elise StefanikRepublican representative in New York – Ambassador to the United Nations
- Lee ZeldinFormer New York Representative – Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- Marco RubioFlorida Republican Senator – Secretary of State
- Kristi NoemRepublican Governor of South Dakota – Secretary of Homeland Security
- Mike HuckabeeFormer Governor of Arkansas – Ambassador to Israel
- John RatcliffeFormer Texas Representative – CIA Director
- Pete HegsethUS Army Veterans – Secretary of Defense
- Mike WaltzFlorida Republican Representative – National Security Advisor
- Steven Witkoffreal estate investor – Middle East envoy
- Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy – Government Efficiency Department
- Tim ScottRepublican Senator from South Carolina – Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee
- Tulsi GabbardFormer Hawaii Representative – Director of National Intelligence
- Matt GaetzFlorida Republican Representative-Attorney General
- Robert F. kennedy jrSecretary of Health and Human Services
- Jay Clayton US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
- Doug BurgumRepublican Governor of North Dakota – Ministry of Interior
- Todd BlancheLawyer – Deputy Public Prosecutor
- Carolyn Leavitt – White House Press Secretary
- Chris WrightDirector of Oil Industry – Minister of Energy
- Doug CollinsServed in Iraq in 2008, former Member of Congress from Georgia's 9th District from 2013 to 2021 – Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs
- William McGinleypartner at the law firm Holtzman Vogel, former Trump White House Cabinet Secretary – White House Counsel
- Stephen CheungTrump 2016 Campaign Rapid Response Director – White House Communications Director
- WILLIAM OWEN SCHARF Federal Prosecutor – Assistant to the President and White House Secretary of Staff
- Dean John Sawyerappellate attorney and former Solicitor General of Missouri, Lead Counsel on the Supreme Court for Trump v. United States – Solicitor General of the United States
- Commissioner Brendan Carrformer top Republican at the FCC and former FFC General Counsel – Chairman of the FCC