Re: WW3 Countdown

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Witkoff meeting with Putin.

Lasted 3-4 hours. 3 day capital to capital ceasefire agreed. This was going to happen anyway as Russia has always respected western diplomats being in Kiev and avert any drone or missile attacks during that period.

Yuri Ushakov described the talks as being ‘comfortable’ but also ‘extremely frank’ which is usually diplomatic speak for a shouting match but probably not likely in this case.

‘No agreement over territory issues’ is no surprise but it seems there were extended talks on ‘major, mutually beneficial Russian-American economic projects’ which sounds like a typical fake Trump bribe which Putin must have seen a dozen times over the last 2 years.

‘Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov noted that while it was a productive first exchange of views where "some things were accepted, others were marked as unacceptable," no final breakthrough was achieved’.

The ‘acceptable’ was the 3 day ceasefire to allow the US diplomats to travel, the ‘unacceptable’ was likely everything else.

Witkoff and Kushner now head to Kiev with counter proposals which Zelensky will reject but with caveats as he doesn’t want to piss Trump off too much.

It’s Trump that really needs this deal now before the US midterm elections, that’s the only reason these meetings are happening at all.

Putin has every intention to just keep rolling onward on the battlefield while Zelensky and all his cronies will stay put so long as the cash keeps flowing.

You’ll know when something real is about to happen because all the cash will be loaded into suitcases and they’ll be dashing for the exits.



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