Why Are People Surprised that Trump Continues Biden’s Ukraine Policy?

By Eric Zuesse

Back on 4 December 2024, I headlined “Trump is set to continue Biden’s policies on Ukraine” and cited a Reuters news-article that day as having reported this but hadn’t made it explicit — which I did in that news-report. The gist of the article, as I pointed out (including what was unsaid in but proven by its evidence), is that Trump had just hired Keith Kellogg as his specialist on Ukraine policy, and Kellogg was someone who refused to take seriously Putin’s red line that Ukraine will never become a NATO member, never become a U.S. colony, a location for U.S.military bases and nuclear weapons placed there against Russia. Ukraine is the closest of all countries to The Kremlin (a mere 300 miles away), and Keith Kellogg’s Ukraine policy is just like that of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, in that his goal with regard to Ukraine is to use it to ultimately conquer Russia and add it to the U.S. empire. Trump’s Ukraine goal is consequently no different from his predecessors’. Ukraine is, and will remain, the U.S. Government’s chief way to do this — the U.S. Govenment’s primary path to ultimately taking Russia. So, since Trump, with the Kellogg appointment, obviously shared Kellogg’s neocon goal (ultimate conquest of Russia), it was already clear then that Trump’s Ukraine policy — his ultimate objective there — was no different than Biden’s and Obama’s was, to continue further with that goal (the goal ultimately to defeat Russia). That path is the likeliest path to World War Three, because Russia won’t, under any circumstances, allow it ever to be achieved; but it is Trump’s goal, just as it had been his predecessors’ goal.

Now, at long last, the retired Col. Douglas Macgregor (whom I had urged in 2024 to run for the Presidency, because he is the most articulate advocate for the anti-imperialist, anti-neocon, progressive, foreign policy, which I advocate for and support 100%), has reluctantly come to the conclusion that Donald Trump is a neocon, a U.S. supremacist imperialist, just like all U.S. Presidents except JFK have been after World War Two. It amazes me that someone as committedly anti-neocon as Macgregor is, didn’t recognize until now that Trump’s Ukraine policy is essentially the same as Biden’s and Obama’s was: to place U.S. nukes there, in order to checkmate and thus conquer Russia.

Here is the September 8th youtube in which Macgregor explains why he ultimately became compelled to this conclusion — he finally now is writing-off Trump (and, so, his reasons for this ought to be able to convince ANYONE who is anti-neocon, that Trump is simply another neocon — toxic to the entire world; and, for this reason, I provide his presentation:

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