Look who´s back...
This summer, Trump´s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo co-wrote an article with one David Urban called "A Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine", published in Wall Street Journal. The article is behind a pay wall (presumably only payable in dollars!), but summaries can be found below. I also link to a critical article about Pompeo´s and Urban´s supposed conflicts of interest in making their proposal. Short form: both have Ukrainian ties.
As for the "peace plan" itself, it´s really a plan to escalate the conflict with Russia and invest more in the US defense industry. In other words, an explicitly interventionist policy rather than the Russophile quasi-isolationism Trump is usually associated with. Indeed, it´s not even clear whether Trump has seen this particular plan.
But...
Mike Pompeo was a featured speaker at Trump´s last election rally. More isolationist MAGA supporters fear that Trump will again appoint him Secretary of State. There is currently a kind of campaign against Pompeo on X. So perhaps the last word on the future Trump Administration´s stance on Ukraine hasn´t been spoken yet.
Possible "Trump" Ukraine peace plan
A Trump Peace Plan for Ukraine (short summary)
Major conflict of interest in Pompeo "Trump peace plan"
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