America's Shame: The So-Called 28 Pt "Peace Plan" for Ukraine is Trumpian Treachery

A Deeper Look Analysis of the Russian-crafted capitulation document being forced on Ukraine

Something extraordinary — and extraordinarily dangerous — is happening out of public view. The United States and Russia have produced a secret 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine that Ukraine did not draft, Europe did not see, and Congress did not authorize. Kyiv learned of the plan only after Donald Trump began pressuring President Volodymyr Zelensky to sign it before Thanksgiving. European governments were blindsided. Kyiv is calling this moment “one of the most difficult in Ukraine’s modern history.”

Every expert who has reviewed the leaked text says the linguistic fingerprints point straight to Moscow — then this is not a peace plan. It is a Russian capitulation document drafted in Moscow, in Russian, translated awkwardly into English, routed through a Putin ally, and pushed onto a wartime ally by an American president acting outside NATO, outside existing U.S. policy, and outside the rules-based order the U.S. spent 75 years building.

This post will break down, in plain language, what’s actually in the plan, why it’s happening now, and what it means for Ukraine, the U.S., NATO, and the global order.

What the 28-Point Plan Actually Does

1. It awards Russia everything it invaded to get.

Crimea becomes Russian territory permanently. Most of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia are ceded to Russia. These are the industrial, cultural, and economic centers of eastern Ukraine — the very regions Putin has sought for decades.

This is not a territorial compromise. It is the so-called Mariupol Plan that Russia and Trump associates discussed as far back as 2016–2018 — now re-surfacing as formal U.S. policy, without coordination with Congress or our supposed allies, starting with Ukraine, and including all of NATO and the EU.

2. It strips Ukraine of NATO membership — forever.

Ukraine is told to amend its constitution to declare it will never join NATO. This is the single biggest strategic goal Russia has pursued since the end of the Cold War.

Crucially, this point does something remarkable. It splits the U.S. from NATO, by making the U.S. the “mediator” between NATO and Russia. Ponder that. It’s something Trump has been angling for all along in one way or another. Now it all but formalizes. By doing this is rewrites the core concept of Western security: NATO unity and Article 5 collective defense.

So keep this in mind. This is not a peace plan. It is a geopolitical realignment of profound consequences. It restructures the entire US/Russia/NATO relationship.

3. It prohibits Ukraine from rebuilding a modern military.

The plan caps the size of Ukraine’s armed forces, limits what weapons it can possess, and prohibits future Ukrainian military partnerships without Russian consent (implied). This would leave Ukraine disarmed next to the nation that invaded it twice in ten years.

4. It erases Russian war crimes.

Shockingly but not surprisingly, it exonerates Russia of all culpability in war crimes. “All parties…will receive full amnesty. This covers murders of civilians, torture, abduction and re-education of children, rape, systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure. No claims are to be allowed. No investigations to be undertaken. No prosecution will happen.

This is not peace — it is blanket impunity.

5. It forces Europe to pay Russia to rebuild land Russia is stealing.

The plan says:

$100 billion in frozen Russian assets will be released and spent on reconstruction. Europe will pony up another $100 billion from its resources. Then afrter Europe fund shalf of the project, it gets zero profit — all profit will be split 50-50 by the new best buddies, Russia and the US. I kid you not. It says this. So Europe funds the reconstruction; Russia gets the territory it invaded; the US and Russia extract profits; and Europe gets nothing but a destabilized continent. This is beyond outrageous.

6. It returns Russia to the global system on its own terms.

The plan guarantees lifting of sanctions on Russia; Russian re-entry into the G7; full re-integration of Russia into Western finance and trade, Major US-Russia joint ventures in energy, AI, rare earths, Arctic extraction, and more. This is not diplomacy. It is rewarding Russia for it’s blatant unprovoked aggression and worse — turning Russia and America into the best buddies Trump has always been trying to engineer.

7. It rewrites global security architecture.

The plan says the U.S. will organize a dialogue between Russia and NATO — meaning the U.S. is no longer of NATO, but above it. This is a structural shift that ends the transatlantic consensus that has existed since NATO was formed; it allows Russia to frame Europe’s security future directly with Washington; and it dismantles the rules-based order created after 1945. It is a return to the world before NATO, the world of “great powers” where the great powers align among themselves in whatever way is convenient and dictate the fate of smaller countries. Back to the 19th century.

Why is this happening now?

There are three forces converging at the same moment: First, there is a political scandal destabilizing Kyiv and weakening Zelensky. Current Current allegations of corruption inside parts of Ukraine’s defense sector have shaken Zelensky’s government — precisely the moment Moscow would choose to push a high-pressure “peace” deal.

U.S. political conditions favor Kremlin objectives

Putin knows two things: Zelensky needs U.S. military support to survive the winter; Trump is openly hostile to NATO and sympathetic to Russian strategic aims. This creates leverage Moscow hasn’t had since 2016.

Europe’s exclusion is the feature, not the bug

Europe was cut out because Europe is the target. Russia wants the U.S. separate from NATO and Trump would just as soon go along with that. Trump wants bilateral deals, transactions, not alliances. Putin wants a world where borders are negotiable by strongmen. The plan accomplishes all three.

What this means for Ukraine

In concrete terms, Ukraine is being told give up sovereign territory, stay permanently outside NATO, accept limits on your military, forgive war crimes, accept Russia as a long-term economic partner, and trust the U.S. president who withheld military aid in 2019 to be your protector in 2025.

Zelensky used the word “dignity” because that was the rallying cry of the 2014 Revolution — a revolution fought to escape Russian domination.

This plan restores that domination through treaty instead of tanks.

What this means for Europe

If implemented, this plan effectively ends NATO’s core purpose, by splitting the U.S. away. It ends Postwar European security architecture; it ends Europe’s strategic independence, forcing it to rely on a U.S.–Russia framework it did not consent to. it erods deterrence, because borders become negotiable again. A Europe without U.S. alignment is a Europe exposed.

What this means for the United States

The 28-point plan does three unprecedented things:

First, it shifts U.S. alignment from NATO to a bilateral U.S.–Russia axis.

Second, it gives Russia the territorial objective it has pursued since 2014, with U.S. blessing.

Third, it opens the door to long-term U.S.–Russia resource and industrial integration — particularly in the Arctic and technologies like AI and rare earth mining.

In short:

The plan rewires American foreign policy around the interests of a hostile power.

No president has ever attempted this.

The larger system impact

This is not about Ukraine.

It is a test case for a new world where borders can be redrawn by force; where war crimes carry no consequences; where the US abaondons treaty allies; and where a great power alignment replaces a rules-based order.

This returns the international system to the 19th century system that Trump has long preferred — great powers, spheres of influence, smaller nations coerced into “choices,” great powers dividing continents.

Ukraine is the pilot project.

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If it sounds like I’m furious - well, I am. This is right at the top of the list of the most disgraceful things I’ve seen in a period of our national history where disgraceful things are almost the norm. This is way too much. I hope those with bigger platforms than mine really get what’s going on here and will organize pushback that accomplishes something.