This is how Trump's peace plan and the European counterproposal see in the...

The US President wants to get the issue of Ukraine off the table, at all costs – and if it is Crimea. Because Trump is only about one thing. That must be clear about the further action of Europe.

The U.S. government wants to hand over Crimea permanently into Russian hands. Further parts of Ukraine are to be "de facto" controlled by Russia. There is a counterproposal for this – here also read in the text.

Donald Trump has threatened to leave the peace process if it does not reach a result soon. Exactly what that would mean is still unclear, but could be decisive for all of Europe.

Donald Trump has a chance of going into the textbooks as the best president of the United States. But it will be the Russian textbooks on contemporary history. Peace with Russia on the terms proposed by Trump would be a reward for the aggressor and a dangerous precedent on a global scale.