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President Donald Trump will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday, December 28, 2025, for what promises to be a consequential, high-stakes summit aimed at ending nearly four years of bloodshed in Europe. The meeting — taking place at Trump’s Florida estate while much of Washington hovers in paralysis — is a sign that one man with the courage to act is trying to bring a negotiated end to a costly conflict.
At the center of the talks is a reportedly 20-point peace proposal that both sides say is roughly 90 percent complete, with security guarantees, economic terms, and territorial questions on the table. That kind of concrete negotiating text is exactly what Americans tired of open-ended foreign wars want: solutions, not sanctimony.
All this comes as Russia dramatically escalated attacks on Kyiv, launching what Ukrainian sources described as hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles that knocked out power and threatened civilians in freezing conditions. The timing of those strikes — amid renewed diplomacy — only underlines why blunt, results-oriented leadership is necessary rather than endless virtue-signaling from the usual suspects in Europe and on the left.
Make no mistake: President Trump’s decision to bring Zelenskyy to Mar-a-Lago and push this plan forward is the opposite of cowardice. It is a clear, unapologetic exercise of American influence to get a deal done — and conservatives should cheer a president who prefers negotiation backed by strength to perpetual proxy wars funded by U.S. taxpayers. This is America First diplomacy in action, not Washington’s old habit of exporting money while importing blame.
At the same time, patriots should watch the fine print and the players around the table. Reporting has raised real concerns that the draft plan leans toward concessions that advantage Moscow, which is exactly why any agreement must protect Ukraine’s sovereignty and not reward Putin for aggression. The Western establishment’s reflex to paper over hard realities with feel-good platitudes must not be allowed to betray American interests or embolden dictators.
Americans must demand that any security guarantees be tangible and enforceable, that reconstruction funds come with strict conditions and oversight, and that our troops and treasure are not squandered on vague promises. If President Trump can leverage U.S. diplomacy to secure a genuine, durable cessation of hostilities and a viable future for Ukraine without endless U.S. occupation of its problems, conservatives should back him — but only so long as the bargain is sound and American interests come first.
This meeting will test whether Washington can finally put results over rhetoric, and whether a president willing to break the mold can deliver peace without capitulation. Working-class Americans want their leaders to stop treating foreign policy as a charity drive and start treating it as a strategic, accountable enterprise; Trump’s move to sit down at the negotiating table gives them a fighting chance to get exactly that.
