Trump Nominates ‘Distinguished’ Retired General To Bring End To War In Ukraine

 President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he has selected retired Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg to serve as Assistant to the President and Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia.

“Keith has led a distinguished Military and Business career, including serving in highly sensitive National Security roles in my first Administration,” Trump said in a statement. “He was with me right from the beginning!”

“Together, we will secure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, and Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN!” Trump added.

Kellogg served during Trump’s first term in office as a national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence.

“I am honored by @realDonaldTrump’s appointment to serve as Assistant to the President and Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia,” Kellogg said in a post on X.

“It was the privilege of my life working for President Trump, and I look forward to working tirelessly to secure peace through strength while upholding America’s interests,” he continued. “I am ready with the commitment and dedication it deserves.”

 

During the Biden-era, Kellogg has served as the Co-Chairman of the Center for American Security at the America First Policy Institute.

Kellogg wrote in a policy paper at the institute that Russia’s war in Ukraine was “an avoidable crisis that, due to the Biden Administration’s incompetent policies and rejection of the America First approach to national security, has entangled America in an endless war.”

He said the administration’s “risk-averse pattern in the armament of Ukraine coupled with a failure in diplomacy with Russia has prolonged the war in Ukraine, which now finds itself in a war of attrition with Russia.”

He wrote that the U.S. plans to seek “a cease-fire and negotiated settlement” to bring the war in Ukraine to an end.

“The United States would continue to arm Ukraine and strengthen its defenses to ensure Russia will make no further advances and will not attack again after a cease-fire or peace agreement,” he said. “Future American military aid, however, will require Ukraine to participate in peace talks with Russia.”