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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Michael Howie and Nicholas Cecil

Trump peace plan would have left Ukraine a 'tethered goat' so weak that Putin would restart war, ex-MI6 chief

Donald Trump’s original 28-point peace plan would have left Ukraine a “tethered goat” and so weak that Vladimir Putin would almost certainly have restarted the war, says an ex-MI6 chief.

Sir Alex Younger, who was head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service from 2014 to 2020, was highly critical of the initial blueprint to end the war which Putin launched in February 2022.

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