Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector, told the “Dialogue Works” podcast on Tuesday that the incoming Trump administration’s position on how to resolve the war in Ukraine is insignificant because it will be Moscow that determines how the war will end.
Ritter said he does not think it is worthwhile to talk about the conversations Keith Kellogg, the retired three-star general tapped by Donald Trump as his special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, has with Kyiv because “that conversation is irrelevant.”
“Ukrainians, simply, don’t have a vote,” he said. He said Kellogg should inform the Ukrainians that the longer they choose to fight, the greater harm will be done to the country.
“But I don’t think he’s going to do that,” he said. “I think Kellogg is going to think that he’s going to find some kind of pressure points for Russia…maybe he will reach out to Europe about increasing defense spending.”
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