A stupid habit that much of the western news media has adopted in reporting on the Trump administration’s various intrigues and contrivances related to Vladimir Putin’s savage war on Ukraine is the extravagant employment of the term “peace plan.”

The term gained almost immediately undeserved currency after Donald Trump’s return to the White House last January, when the American foreign-policy establishment was dragooned into an effort to extort $500 billion from Ukraine in a spoils-of-war minerals deal.

The arrangement, now nearly moribund, was no “peace plan.” Its purpose was to satisfy President Trump’s determination to recoup what he falsely claimed was $300 billion the United States had spent to assist Ukraine in defending itself after Russia’s full-on invasion in 2022. It was a lie

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