https://time.com/7336906/steve-witkoff-russia-call-trump-ukraine-peace-plan/
President Donald Trump appears unfazed that a Cabinet-level envoy appeared to be advising the other side in ongoing foreign-policy negotiations.
After Bloomberg published a bombshell report on Tuesday revealing a purported transcript of U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff, who has been credited with helping to broker the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and who is currently working on U.S. efforts to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, guiding Vladimir Putin’s senior foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov on how the Kremlin could best get through to Trump.
Putin apparently followed through. A Kremlin readout of an Oct. 16 call with Trump said that Putin “started out by congratulating Donald Trump on his successful efforts to normalise the situation in the Gaza Strip.” A few weeks later, the Trump Administration unveiled a 28-point peace proposal for Ukraine that was reportedly drafted by Witkoff. Observers said it heavily favored Russia’s priorities, and Reuters reported that it drew significantly from a paper outlining Russia’s conditions for an end to the war.
The same media that insisted that no one in the Biden administration was compromised by or working for Iran, right?
ReplyDeleteWow another whatabout defense comment!
DeleteNo it's another "You're a hypocrite" comment. If you care about injustice, you should call it out on both sides.
DeleteWow so you defend treason by saying that Biden worked for Iran?!
DeleteGarnel if you rea;ly cared about hypocrisy you would notice that your team excells in the trait!.
DeleteStop obsessing about how your opponents are hypocritical and try and focus on your fellow travelers
Robert malley was removed from his job because he was compromised in his Iran ties
DeleteWitkoff is overtly compromised and batting for Russia. He should be removed from his position and investigated.
Who would you recommend in his stead?Somebody not compromised by association with EU,Soros,etc.
DeleteAnd you keep missing the point. It's not my team. I keep telling you that. Your problem is that you are still treating it like a team sport when the whole game is rigged and rotten.
DeleteSorry Garnel, got to disagree with you on this one.
DeleteIt's not the same "media". The (old) right wing media in Britain also accuse witkoff, essentially being a useful idiot at best, and effectively a soviet agent at worst.
Trump is running his show by bringing incompetent fools aboard. Also look at how he cosied up to mamzerdani.
There's an ignorant white nationalist sector who see Putin and Russia as allies, simply because they are White and Christians. They are not far off from the ones who say it was a mistake to fight Hitler yemach shmo.
Putin is a threat to the west. He was at some stage friendly to Jews, which is to his credit.
But he is trying to rebuild the soviet empire. I'm not saying Ukraine are righteous, they are also rashaim, with centuries of our blood on their hands.
Best thing is to continue degrading russian military strength.
But even after that, china and turkey are malign regimes.
The old comatose right in Britain {rarest of exceptions eg Rees-Mogg} have thrown in the towel sadly on just about everything but their fossilized foreign mantras, hence the knee-jerk opposition to anything Russia:
DeleteWe don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do,
We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too,
We've fought the Bear before, and while we're Britons true,
The Russians shall not have Constantinople.Or the Donbass.
Remove now the [We've]. Replace it with America]
My reference was to iron heart*s comment, something you have conveniently forgotten
DeleteKA, everything you say is correct. I agree completely. As for the war, as my father, a"h, used to say: couldn't they kill each other a little faster? I mean, the ideal from a cold point of view is to give enough to Ukraine to keep them in the fight so the Russian army can't threaten anybody else.
DeleteAs for Mamzerdani, I think Trump acting friendly to him was brilliant. Look what happened during the last election in Canada. The Conservative leader was tarred by the media as being a friend and ally of Trump. It was the kiss of death for him. Mamzerdani standing there and having a polite conversation with Trump instead of screaming "You fascist, genocide-supporting pig!"? Trump complementing him? It's political poison to the guy.
That's interesting -
DeleteBecause when Boris Johnson was PM in England, there was a Trump visit, just prior to an election, when Johnson publicly distanced himself from Trump, precisely because of the reasons you mentioned in Canada. And he won that election..
Folks like DT think Trump is demented or stupid but he's the smartest guy in the room and constantly thinking about strategy. I suspect with Mamzerdani he was weaponizing himself.
DeleteNot sure about that. Mamzerdieni, has infinite sense of entitlement, he is using the same strategy as the Khomeini iranian revolution. Khomeini originally ran with the communists, and made all sorts of promises that their rights would be protected, women would be protected etc etc. He will destroy and Islamize New york, unless the Government acts against him. He is far worse than Biden, yet Trump is still mocking Biden every day.
DeleteAll socialists have a sense of entitement, as in they're entitled to the fruits of your labour without having to earn it themselves.
DeleteThe hope is that Linda Sarwhore will see this endorsement by Trump and start attacking him for being insufficiently pure.
Wow All MAGA supporters have a sense of entitlement
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