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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Jason Wilson

US official heading Ukraine peace plan has history of empathizing with Russia

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left) greets Keith Kellogg before the start of a bilateral meeting on 20 February in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photograph: Ukrainian Presidentia/Planet Pix/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

A retired US general charged with helping sell the Trump administration’s Ukraine peace plan wrote a string of op-eds and reports for a rightwing thinktank in which he repeatedly questioned whether Ukraine had a legitimate part to play in peace negotiations.

Keith Kellogg also blamed the war on the machinations of a US “military-industrial complex” and “[Joe] Biden’s national security incompetence” rather than Russia’s 2022 invasion, which has been condemned across the globe and resulted in a war that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

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