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As President Donald Trump gets to work in the Oval Office, the world is eagerly hoping for a more successful and peaceful global environment – particularly when it comes to the wars that have raged overseas for the past few years.
Thanks to the weakness of the Biden administration, the Middle East and Eastern Europe have fallen into chaos and violence, and the gloomy threat of World War III has hung over the heads of Americans for months.
During his campaign for reelection, President Trump promised to bring peace to the world stage and end the wars ripping the globe apart. “I am the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent World War III,” he declared in 2023 during a rally.
Days before taking office for his second term, President Trump announced that a ceasefire had been successfully negotiated between Hamas and Israel, signaling to the world that the violence unfolding across nations on the Biden administration’s watch would soon be coming to an end.
“We will continue promoting PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH throughout the region, as we build upon the momentum of this ceasefire to further expand the Historic Abraham Accords,” he said in a statement celebrating the historic moment.
With the Middle East swiftly moving in the right direction thanks to President Trump, many are now turning their eyes to the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Zelensky’s demands
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has gleefully accepted billions of American taxpayer dollars to fund his country’s defense against Russia, and as the war has dragged on endlessly, the threat of nuclear war has become very real.
“FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEN COME THE NUKES,” Trump wrote in 2023. “Get this crazy war ended, NOW. So easy to do!”
Now, as President Trump has taken the reins of power in the Oval Office, Zelensky has shifted his demands for what it will take to maintain peace in the European region.
“It is great if we will have troops, but you have to understand the troops will not be in the center of the capital. They will not have a relaxed time,” he said during an interview posted on X by Bloomberg.
Zelensky was referring to U.S. troops. Even more incredibly, he explicitly stated that he wanted U.S. troops on the front line alongside his Ukrainian forces.
There seems to be no end to what Zelensky thinks he can ask for from the United States.
Waiting on Russia
Russian President Vladmir Putin has exhibited willingness to talk with President Donald Trump to restart positive relations with the U.S. following Biden’s ceaseless supply of weapons and aid to Ukraine.
“We also hear [Trump’s] statement about the need to do everything possible to prevent World War III,” Putin said in a statement this week, via ABC.
He continued, “We certainly welcome this attitude and congratulate the president-elect of the United States of America on his assumption of office.”
The media has often asked President Trump when he will be meeting with Putin, but those plans have remained quiet so far. However, the 47th president took action this week to inform the American people about his technique to pressuring Russia to move toward peace.
The art of the peace deal
President Trump said in a statement on Wednesday that he was “not looking to hurt Russia” and reminded Americans that despite the “Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX” of his first term, it was prudent to remember how Russia helped America win World War II.
“All of that being said, I’m going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR. Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War! IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE,” he said.
The president warned that if America and Russia did not make a “deal” soon, he would have “no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.”
In this, President Trump is using the “art of the deal” in real time – maximizing the use of economic pressure to strongarm Russia, whose economy is indeed failing, to halt their aggressive actions overseas.
Trump concluded, “Let’s get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with! We can do it the easy way, or the hard way – and the easy way is always better. It’s time to ‘MAKE A DEAL.’ NO MORE LIVES SHOULD BE LOST!!!”
The clock is ticking. How will Putin respond? It is highly likely that he will meet with President Trump very soon and strike a deal. The economic devastation that would be unleashed on Russia if he refused such an olive branch should be motivation enough to prompt the European leader to take Trump’s offer.
President Trump is quickly carving out an efficient pathway back to peace. Whatever roadblocks arise over the coming days and weeks, Americans can rest assured that they have the best dealmaker in history in the White House, and that he will come through for them when nobody else could.