Plan Comparisons

A straightforward look at how other plans measure up to the DJTPEZ

No plan exists in a vacuum. When you compare the DJTPEZ to other plans currently on the table, its advantages become clear.

I. Most other current plans involve very little U.S. participation. The DJTPEZ has complete American involvement as a valuable partner, enabling both a safe future and an industrial rebirth.

II. Most other current plans simply freeze the current front as the new de facto border. The DJTPEZ instead envisions a significant withdrawal by both sides, replaced by a massive demilitarized zone that serves as a buffer between the combatants — allowing both sides to stand down and return to a more relaxed state of readiness.

III. Most other current plans rely on peacekeeping forces that have failed badly to keep the peace in other war zones around the world, relying on a small contingent of unmotivated troops to prevent two highly capable, deeply resentful militaries from attacking each other. The DJTPEZ instead envisions a massive Peace Zone filled with peacekeepers alongside American and European business interests, giving both sides genuine assurance that they are safe from attack.

IV. Most other current plans lack the kind of security guarantees that would let businesses flourish and insure against catastrophic losses. The DJTPEZ uses its large safe zone, peacekeeping presence, and substantial U.S. and European business and personnel footprint to bring insurance rates and the cost of doing business down to manageable levels.

V. Most other current plans fail to address the threat that future reinvasion poses to industrial growth. The DJTPEZ removes that threat by creating a Zone so large that a strike across or through it becomes nearly impossible — with peacekeepers and business operations further limiting either side's opportunity to strike the other.

VI. Most other current plans rely on charity to rebuild the vast areas destroyed by the war — but rebuilding housing and industry on this scale is far too large a problem for charitable contributions alone to solve. The DJTPEZ envisions the same generous charitable donations, but supplements them with profits from industrial growth to fund the infrastructure and housing needed for reconstruction on the scale the war zone requires.

VII. Most other current plans offer no realistic, workable strategy for reviving industry and economic activity in or near the war zone. The DJTPEZ has detailed plans to safeguard, insure, rebuild, and grow the economic engine within the Zone — an economic regenesis sits at the heart of the plan.

VIII. Most other current plans envision no American investment in Ukraine. The DJTPEZ envisions massive American investment, joint ventures, technology transfers, and charitable donations.

IX. Most other current plans envision no American presence of any kind in the area. The DJTPEZ involves a large, physical American presence within the Zone, making reinvasion effectively unthinkable. Any party that fails to respect that presence risks a full American response — a cataclysmic outcome for either side.

X. Most other plans include no incentives for Russia to accept the deal. The DJTPEZ addresses every incentive Russia has been asking for: (A) respecting the rights of ethnic Russians in the war zone, (B) ending the crippling sanctions that have locked Russia out of competing in the world economy, (C) restoring access to the economic and banking systems it has been denied, and (D) readmitting Russia to the international organizations from which it has been excluded. These are the kinds of incentives that can turn this plan into reality — getting Russia to sign quickly rather than dragging out negotiations over every detail while the war continues.