{"id":11017,"date":"2025-03-07T01:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/envoy-keith-kellogg-compares-ukraine-intel-sharing-pause-to-hitting-a-mule-with-a-two-by-four-across-nose\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T01:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T01:12:12","slug":"envoy-keith-kellogg-compares-ukraine-intel-sharing-pause-to-hitting-a-mule-with-a-two-by-four-across-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/envoy-keith-kellogg-compares-ukraine-intel-sharing-pause-to-hitting-a-mule-with-a-two-by-four-across-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Envoy Keith Kellogg compares Ukraine intel sharing pause to &#8220;hitting a mule with a two-by-four&#8221; across nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, President Trump&#8217;s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, says Ukrainians brought the pause in U.S. intelligence sharing &#8220;on themselves.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8220;sort of like hitting a mule with a two-by-four across the nose,&#8221; Kellogg said of the impact of the intelligence pause on the battlefield. &#8220;Got their attention.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence the U.S. has been sharing has been critical in helping Ukraine strike Russian military targets, as well as anticipate and block Russian attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s a pause. It&#8217;s not an end,&#8221; Kellogg told CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Brennan in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IVNEX52kkgs&amp;t=2s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">interview at the Council on Foreign Relations<\/a> Thursday. &#8220;But it&#8217;s sort of of like, okay, we&#8217;re trying to get your attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a pretty major concession to Russia, to constrain Ukraine&#8217;s ability to target and hit Russian forces,&#8221; Brennan said, pointing out, &#8220;this pressure really seems to be directly impacting, potentially, what they can do on the battlefield.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very candidly, they brought it on themselves,&#8221; Kellogg responded, to hisses from the audience.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/IVNEX52kkgs?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1\" data-optanon-category=\"essential\" data-height=\"113\" data-width=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption><span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IVNEX52kkgs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Ukraine and Russia Special Envoy Kellogg on How the War Might End<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cfr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Council on Foreign Relations<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CIA Director John Ratcliffe <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ukraine-russia-war-trump-us-intel-weapons-pause-zelenskyy-putin-peace\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">acknowledged the intelligence sharing pause Wednesday<\/a><\/span>, a move that followed the contentious White House visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last Friday. The meeting with President Trump was supposed to culminate in the signing of a rare earth minerals deal but instead <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ukraine-rare-earth-minerals-trump-zelenskyy\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">ended in recrimination<\/a><\/span>, as Zelenskyy sought to remind the president and Vice President JD Vance of the treaties Russian President Vladimir Putin has broken in the past, while Mr. Trump and Vance berated the Ukrainian leader in the Oval Office, accusing him of not saying &#8220;thank you&#8221; for U.S. military aid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though Kellogg indicated that intelligence sharing could resume, he declined to say when. &#8220;That&#8217;s up to the president of the United States,&#8221; he told Brennan.<\/p>\n<p>Kellogg also said the Trump administration would be willing to work with Zelenskyy once the minerals agreement is finalized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sign a document, and then once you sign the document that you want to go forward, that you&#8217;re serious about it, then I think you can move forward,&#8221; said Kellogg. &#8220;When I was in Kyiv two weeks ago, I was very clear to President Zelenskyy \u2014 the outcome if we didn&#8217;t have a signed agreement.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump's Special Envoy, General Keith Kellogg Visit To Kyiv \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/06\/c406b59d-84ee-473e-980e-f65f17726f97\/thumbnail\/620x413g2\/6c445bb1ecb0e373347beb2694c0d02f\/gettyimages-2200014655.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/03\/06\/c406b59d-84ee-473e-980e-f65f17726f97\/thumbnail\/1240x826g2\/309dfba4858c74d3b0ce5cfdc8aec780\/gettyimages-2200014655.jpg?v=63a2b43e2ef8917aa6bd547ca29dd4fa 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">File: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s special envoy, General Keith Kellogg, meet in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 20, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Maxym Marusenko\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now likely to be the administration official who signs the deal with Ukraine. And next week, on Tuesday or Wednesday, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff expects to meet with Ukrainian officials in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, he told reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Witkoff met with Putin for about <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/steve-witkoff-putin-meeting-trump-envoy-face-the-nation\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">three and a half hours<\/a><\/span> last month in Russia and returned to the U.S. with &#8220;an indication of where the Russians are&#8221; on peace negotiations, Kellogg said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to do the same thing with the Ukrainians, as well,&#8221; Kellogg told Brennan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Kellogg denied an earlier statement by Witkoff that the Istanbul protocol, drafted shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, could serve as the basis for a peace deal framework between Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The right-leaning Institute for the Study of War <a href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingwar.org\/backgrounder\/fact-sheet-istanbul-protocol-draft-document-april-15-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">describes<\/a> the Istanbul protocol as &#8220;entirely incompatible with the current stated U.S. policy&#8221; and argues it &#8220;cannot be the basis or guidepost for negotiations that amount to anything other than capitulation to Russia&#8217;s pre-war demands.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The institute noted that a draft of that agreement would have had Ukraine surrender its sovereignty and would have prevented it from maintaining armed forces sufficient to deter a Russian attack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Steve said it&#8217;s a departure point. I think that&#8217;s a good word to use,&#8221; said Kellogg. &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe for all of us that that is an equitable framework. And I think we have to develop something entirely new,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Steve made a comment as a general comment, and it is not the Trump administration policy\u00a0 because they haven&#8217;t made their policy,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, Kellogg estimates that the Ukrainians should have enough military aid to continue fighting through the summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have an ability with the assets they&#8217;ve got to continue to prosecute the fight, to do it,&#8221; said Kellogg.<\/p>\n<p>Kellogg would not confirm that as part of a peace agreement the U.S. would backstop any European peacekeeping forces by providing security guarantees to Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s part of the discussion we&#8217;re having with the Europeans as well \u2014 when you talk what does [a] backstop look like,&#8221; said Kellogg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What does that look like on the economic side, what do sanctions look like, what do frozen assets, whatever it&#8217;s going to be? And then we also look at the military side as well,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beyond bringing the conflict to a close, Kellogg also said president seeks a &#8220;reset&#8221; of U.S. relations with Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The need to reset relations with Russia to secure Americans&#8217; vital national interest, and ultimately, to stop U.S. entanglement in an endless proxy war, are the driving reasons why President Trump&#8217;s approach and the framing of this war is distinct from the broader, conventional approach that we see publicly to the war,&#8221; said Kellogg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged, however, that existing sanctions against Russia need to be enforced more aggressively to be more effective.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you ranked U.S. sanctions against Russia on a scale of 1 to 7, he said, &#8220;the problem is with enforcement, we&#8217;re probably at a 3.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the most important thing is the enforcement of sanctions \u2014 not necessarily the sanctions themselves,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n      <em><\/p>\n<p>                      <span class=\"byline__author__text\">Richard Escobedo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.<br \/>\n      <\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/ukraine-in-turmoil\/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3a\" class=\"component__view-more component__view-more--sm\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><br \/>\n            More<br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" class=\"icon__caret-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><use xlink:href=\"#icon-caret-down\"\/><\/svg><\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/search\/author\/sophia-barkoff\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Sophia Barkoff<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Sophia Barkoff is a broadcast associate with CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.&#8221; She covers foreign affairs, often focusing on national security and U.S. foreign policy with an emphasis on Russia and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/keith-kellogg-ukraine-intelligence-sharing-pause\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Lt. 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