Keith Kellogg during a Senate armed services committee hearing on the conflict in Ukraine in February 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC [Mariam Zuhaib/AP]
AL JAZEERA | Published November 28, 2024
Here’s how Kellogg’s plan to end the war in Ukraine compares with Trump’s and Zelenskyy’s plans.
United States President-elect Donald Trump has picked a retired general, Keith Kellogg, to be his special envoy for the Russia-Ukraine war.
Trump has made ending the war – now on for nearly three years – a centrepiece of his foreign policy promises. Kellogg’s role could make him a critical figure in Trump’s plans.
But who is Kellogg – and what is known about the general’s own views on the war, and on how to end it?
Who is Keith Kellogg?
Kellogg, 80, is a retired lieutenant general. He was the chief of staff for the White House National Security Council during Trump’s first term from 2017 to 2021. He was also the national security adviser to Mike Pence, who was Trump’s vice president at the time.
Kellogg is a Vietnam War veteran and he was also sent to Iraq to work in the transitional government after the US-led invasion of the country in 2003.
“He was with me right from the beginning!” Trump wrote, announcing Kellogg’s nomination on his Truth Social platform.
The special envoy position is new and points to Trump’s emphasis on diplomacy to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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BBC NEWS | Published November 27, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Keith Kellogg, a former national security adviser and retired lieutenant general in the US military, to be special envoy to Ukraine and Russia in his second administration.
Kellogg is likely to be at the centre of negotiations to end the ongoing war in Ukraine, should Russia and Ukraine agree to take part.
Trump has promised to stop the war on his first day back in office – though he has not provided any details on how he plans to do that.
Kellogg has advocated for tough negotiations with Russia and Ukraine in order to bring the war to an end.
Earlier this month, in an interview on Fox News – where he has been a paid contributor since 2022 – Kellogg specifically noted that the war would be the “biggest thing” Trump has to solve in his second administration.
Kellogg’s ideas for how to do this have been outlined in a research paper published by the America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think thank.
In the document, published in April, Kellogg advocated for “a formal US policy to seek a ceasefire and negotiated settlement of the Ukraine conflict”.
He proposed that Ukraine would only get further US aid if Kyiv participated in peace talks with Moscow, but also suggested that if Moscow refused to take part, Washington would then give Kyiv more aid.
Co-authored with Fred Fleitz, who like Kellogg, served as a chief of staff on Trump’s National Security Council during his first presidency, the paper said Russia could be convinced to negotiate if the US promised to “put off” Ukraine’s Nato membership for an extended period of time.
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