GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, an Indian-American, spelled out his strategy for bringing peace to Ukraine by opening up Russia during a campaign rally in New Hampshire.
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, which is now in its second year, has been expensive both financially and in terms of the thousands of lives it has claimed. Since the war began in February 2022, the US has provided Ukraine with aid totaling more than $75 billion. According to the German-based Kiel Institute for the World Economy, U.S. taxpayers are already responsible for more than $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine. The costs cover financial, military, and humanitarian relief.
The 37-year-old political outsider declared, “I will stop the war by discontinuing further U.S. backing for Ukraine and negotiating a peace deal with Russia that meets a crucial U.S. security goal: ceasing Russia’s expanding military partnership with China. In contrast to President Nixon’s 1972 diplomatic move, which caused China and Russia to grow apart, this time Putin is the new Mao.
Ramaswamy asserted that he has a different opinion on Ukraine than two of his Republican rivals, former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who have both kept their positions on the issue under wraps.
According to Ramaswamy, the United States may mediate a peace agreement while assisting in severing the strategic military connections between China and Russia.
The Sino-Russian alliance poses the biggest military threat the United States has ever encountered. Together, Russia and China are superior to the United States in every area of great power competition, including geographic reach, economic potential, industrial manufacturing power, conventional military might, and nuclear weapons, including super-Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) weapons that could destroy vital American infrastructure and cause hundreds of millions of civilian deaths, the expert claimed.
“Under my peace plan, while Ukraine maintains its statehood, Russia will be permanently downgraded as a foe. The greatest option for Ukraine to protect its own security is to accept a settlement brokered by the United States and supported by Russian assurances to the United States, Ramaswamy said in a speech.
The president’s continued backing for Ukraine, according to Ramaswamy, is “pushing Russia into a closer military alliance with China, which increases the risk of nuclear war.”
The biotech entrepreneur proposes what he terms an armistice deal in the style of the Korean War, codifying the present lines of control and giving Russia the majority of the Donbas territory.
According to him, “the agreement would put a permanent moratorium on Ukraine joining NATO and suspend any further U.S. military aid to Ukraine.” “Further, the U.S. and western NATO countries would end the Western sanctions regime against Russia, restore normal diplomatic relations with Russia with mutual security commitments, withdraw all troops from Ukraine, and close all their bases in Eastern Europe—returning to the reality that existed before the July 2016 Warsaw Summit.”
