Trump peace plans
Donald Trump ultimately failed to win his coveted Nobel Peace Prize (at least, not in this latest edition), but this hasn't diminished his ambition to portray himself as the great global peacemaker. A month and a half ago, in Sharm el-Sheikh, he presented a document or artifact called Trump Declaration for Lasting Peace and ProsperityIt was signed behind letters bearing the slogan "Peace 2025," supposedly a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine. That was a we all run Of the world leaders: no one wanted to miss the photo op of what was understood to be the end of the genocide in Palestine, and everyone who was invited shook hands with a Trump who exulted like a child on Christmas morning. In reality, as experts warned at the time, it was not yet a peace agreement, but a ceasefire that has been applied arbitrarily and highly deficiently. Under the pretext of not returning the bodies of the deceased hostages (who could have died, or also been torn to pieces, or left hanging under the rubble, during the Israeli attacks of the last two years) and other excuses from the usual repertoire against Hamas, the Israeli government has not stopped the killings of the civilian population for a single day. The latest news—which you can read in the Cristina Mas's chronicle on the ARAHe says that forensic experts who examined the bodies returned by Israel are reporting possible organ trafficking involving organs harvested from the deceased Palestinians. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is trying to obtain a presidential pardon to avoid his corruption trial, which, for him, has always been the crux of the entire conflict.
Things are no better in Ukraine, and Trump's peacemaking pronouncements (also reported in this newspaper by Albert SortThese peace plans always end up being subject to Putin's will and whims, as all he expects and accepts is Zelensky's surrender. Generally, Trump's peace plans consist of the formal recognition of the total hegemony and impunity of the strongest, and the complete humiliation and surrender of the vanquished (an expeditious and easy way to construct peace plans), in addition to a hefty share of the spoils for the US, which acts as both mediator and broker. In the case of Ukraine, however, Putin is not satisfied with a large share: he wants it all, and it cannot be ruled out that he will get his way.
Trump has just embellished his image as a global leader by insulting journalists and meeting with such dubious figures as the current president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa (Trump sprayed him with a perfume he markets and asked him how many wives he had), and the Saudi Crown Prince Mossed bin Salman, the self-proclaimed American Jamal Khashoggi ("Things happen," Trump remarked). The American president's popularity, it's true, is rapidly declining (the latest Gallup poll places him at 36%, five points lower than in October), but that won't deter him from his desire to pacify the world with his narrow-minded vision of a builder and real estate speculator.