Bill Browder, a man who knows a thing or two about Putin’s Russia, shares this analysis of what’s really going on with the so-called “peace plan”:
Putin Meets With Witkoff and Kushner for Nearly Five Hours and the two sides did not reach any specific compromises, an aide to President Vladimir V. Putin said, as the United States pushes a plan to end the war in Ukraine. Let me translate for you what this means.
There was never any intention from Russia to settle this conflict (even when they released their 28 point “peace plan”).
This whole thing has been a well executed intelligence operation with two very specific objectives:
1) to derail the devastating oil sanctions that Senator Lindsay Graham has tee’d up and
2) to derail the EU plan to transfer the Russian frozen assets to Ukraine. As a result of these so called “peace negotiations” both of these serious consequences have been kicked into the long grass.Putin is happy and Trump will say “we can’t impose sanctions on Russia while we’re trying to get peace”. And he will lean heavily on the EU to not confiscate the frozen assets so they don’t “derail these productive negotiations”.
For anyone who understands what Russia cares about, this whole thing is so obvious. It’s a shame we let ourselves get played by Putin. Most importantly, the Russian terrorism against innocent Ukrainians will continue.
Is that true? Who knows? But I wouldn’t surprised. Sure Trump, Witkoff and Kushner all have dollar signs and Nobel Prizes in their eyes and maybe they’ll be able to pull this off. But there’s a good chance that Putin is playing all of them and is buying time for his own purposes. We know one thing. He does not want peace. That’s just ludicrous. I really doubt that he’s driven by the idea of going into business with Donald Trump and Jared Kushner. He could have done that without going to this much trouble.He wants Ukraine and beyond.