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"U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned.
Witkoff — a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment — has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington peace proposal that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin's most sweeping demands."
~ Tim Zadorozhnyy
In a point-by-point analysis of the "peace" proposal for Russia's assault on Ukraine entitled "Trump and Witkoff Try to Get Russia a Win," Nicholas Grossman responds to 28 points made by the proposal.
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https://www.arcdigital.media/p/trump-and-witkoff-try-to-get-russia
"Who benefits from Trump's deals with the Russians and the Saudis? Not us.
Steve Witkoff is a real-estate developer with no historical, geographical, or cultural knowledge of Russia or Ukraine. Kirill Dmitriev heads Russia’s sovereign-wealth fund, a day job that involves negotiating financial deals designed to benefit the Russian oligarchs who control the state, including Putin."
~ Anne Applebaum
"Together, they have put together a 28-point 'peace plan' which has surprised the Ukrainians, the Europeans, and possibly even the State Department. …
Most disturbing, though, are the Russian-American financial deals that seem to be lurking in the background. The US would somehow get control of $100 billion in frozen Russian assets, currently kept in European banks, and use that money to make profits in Ukraine. And there is more."
