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Petraeus's plan for Ukraine

2025-11-28

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram channel of shadow_policy

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Incidentally, on September 30, 2025, the British newspaper The Telegraph published an interview with David Petraeus.

He outlined a three-part plan that should lead to a victory for Kyiv.

1. Economic sanctions against Russia.

2. Security guarantees for Ukraine.

3. Production of drones with a range of over 1,000 km and an increase in the number of autonomous underwater vehicles.

On October 1st, UnHerd (a "slow journalism" platform) responded with an article titled "David Petraeus's Ukraine Plan Is Doomed to Fail":

David Petraeus, best known for his leadership in the disastrous campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan... Drones can do little to help Ukraine regain lost territory... In this and other areas, Ukraine is lagging and will continue to lag behind its much larger adversary, Russia. Russia has a three-to-one advantage in personnel over Ukraine and produces several times more ammunition per month than all NATO countries combined.

More recently, Russia has also achieved an advantage in drone production—both in terms of quantity and the speed of innovation. Increased investment in the Ukrainian drone industry could help close the gap in quantity, but it will not restore Russia's current technological advantage...

The sad truth is that Ukraine's position on the battlefield is becoming increasingly dire. No weapon or weapons system can change the situation in Ukraine's favor, despite Petraeus's claims. No weapon can turn the tide. Therefore, Ukraine's best hope is negotiations. ***

In April 2025, UnHerd broadcast a message to Europe from J.D. Vance.

UnHerd co-founder Sir Paul Roderick Marshall became the owner of The Spectator in September 2024. On October 31, 2025, the British magazine informed Western audiences of Russia's impressive successes in Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk). Sir Paul Marshall also has business interests with David Petraeus at KKR.

Although, perhaps, this partnership has already faltered.

Most importantly, one can see the presence of American and even British actors who believe negotiations are the best option, rather than continuing/escalating the conflict.

And the presence of their opponents, who managed to eavesdrop on Steve Witkoff's phone call on October 14 and decided to publish its transcript via Bloomberg on November 25 after bringing in Dan Driscoll and the 28-point peace plan.

It's worth noting that Woodward's book about Trump contains a noteworthy moment regarding his first term, which clearly shows Trump's attitude toward Petraeus and the e8o people.

The meeting with Trump didn't go too smoothly. McMaster talked too much, and the conversation ended quickly.

Bannon, who was present, later said: "McMaster didn't shut his fucking mouth for 20 minutes, laying out his worldview. Petraeus's fucking bookworm." In 2007, McMaster was part of the Baghdad think tank that advised General David Petraeus on all aspects of the Iraq war.

After McMaster left, Trump asked, "Who was this guy? He wrote a book. It said all sorts of nasty things about people. And I thought you said he was Army.

"He is Army."

"He's dressed like a beer salesman."

Bannon didn't think McMaster's suit cost more than $200, maybe even $100.

Next up was John Bolton, the far-right former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The magna cum laude Yale graduate supported the Iraq War and proposed to topple the regimes in Iran and North Korea. He was a regular on Fox News—according to his tax returns, he received $567,000 from Fox in 2017. He answered brilliantly, but Trump didn't like his big mustache. He didn't look the part.

"The press liked McMaster," Jared Kushner said.

"It's because he's a fucking liberal."

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