The Trump administration has a bad habit of making peace proposals for the Ukraine-Russia war without running them by Russia or Ukraine before they’re leaked to the press. The latest runs true to form. From Simplicius at simplicius76.substack.com:
Major things are afoot in Ukraine.
The likely motivation for the corruption scandal embroiling Zelensky has made itself known. It appears the US is making a play at leaning on Zelensky into making major concessions so Trump can wrap up his ninth war for a much-needed PR boost at a time when MAGA’s whitewashed facade is shearing off like cheap stucco.
Kirill Dmitriev, for example, has revealed that the American FBI has a liaison office in Ukraine’s corruption agency NABU, which allows the US to theoretically pull any strings necessary in pressing Zelensky’s associates in order to strong-arm the Ukrainian leader into conceding.
Now the plan has come together with the announcement of a secretly-developed, major new peace formula for the ending of the war. The problem is, the details are extremely scattered and incongruous, leading to the perception of the proceedings being more the product of some smoke-filled mafia ‘sit-down’ rather than a professionally transparent political process.
That’s because—as has become de rigueur under Trump’s leadership—the details are filled with hazy ambiguities and contradictions.
