Faced with the audience at the Munich Security Conference, Keith Kellogg also said that the Western sanctions to Russia are uncommon
Russia will have to make concessions to end the war in Ukraine, the Trump administration envoy to Russia-Ucraine said Keith Kellogg on Saturday.
The concessions would mainly involve territorial issues and possibly resignation to the use of force, Kellogg pointed out during an intervention at the Munich Security Conference.
Putin “won’t reduce his military forces,” the US diplomat admitted, but the US expects to “force him” to actions with which he is not “comfortable.”
Kellogg said the US could be able to disturb Russia’s recently formed alliances – such as Iran, North Korea and China – which were nonexistent just a few years ago.
Kellogg also said that the US could press Putin’s oil revenues through more rigorous sanctions. Kellogg has classified the current efforts of the West to apply sanctions to Russia as a 3 in 10.
“What does Russia move? It is indeed a oil state. Seventy percent of the money they are receiving to finance this war comes from oil and gas. Most of this money goes through the shadow fleet, ”Kellogg argued, adding that the US has to start applying sanctions that break Moscow’s ‘economic back’.
“If they think they will kill to get out of this situation, they are mistaken because they have a bad view of the story,” said Kellogg, arguing that Russia was evidently “willing to lose” a large number of soldiers in the battle of Stalingrade during World War Worldwide as well as “sacrificing hundreds of thousands” of soldiers in their war in Ukraine.
