After the end of the 3 day meeting in Abu Dhabi Witkoff and Kushner’s first priority was to report back to Trump.
But they didn't, they ran straight to Moscow instead, why? - they had just spent 3 days talking to Putin's representatives. Why then the need to speak to Putin?
Clearly the 3 days of talks all went terribly wrong for Witkoff and Kushner. They found themselves faced with 5 top Russian diplomats, all stony faced hardliners with probably over 150 combined years of real diplomatic experience, Witkoff and Kushner have a grand total of, err, zero.
By the middle of day 2 they must have been totally punch drunk when they were nodding their heads to the Russians talking about the pulling back of NATO borders (as was being reported by ABC News on Wednesday).
Reeling as they staggered out of the meeting their first thought was not to run back to Trump, God no, but to Moscow and beg Putin to throw them some kind of a bone because they got absolutely nothing out of the 5 Rotwiliers.
But in Moscow things went from very bad to much worse.
Gone were the smiles and happy hand shacks and pats in the back. Even worse was that the head of the Russian diplomatic delegation was sat right next to a very stony faced Putin. You could practically see the dynamic duo gulping as the entered the room.
You could tell from the photos of the meeting in Moscow that they just knew they were going to get nowhere.
And if the photos told the story the Russian readouts of the Moscow meeting left no doubt. Putin was not going to make any concessions and was not going to ease off the pressure on Ukraine, their objectives had been laid out for some time and were clear for all to see. And so there will be no respite for Ukraine to allow the west to rearm and restore the Ukrainian army like they had done after Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 and after every other ceasefire ever agreed to.
Meanwhile the European leadership are showing themselves to be the total morons we know they are. They are all technocrats, they can only think in straight lines and even only then if they have a slide rule to go by.
Clown Kallas is telling us that they just have to stick together and that the sanctions will work, really, even after nearly 5 years and the destruction of Europe while watching Russia bloom.
But it gets worse, there seems to be no understanding that the US has had enough of Europe and enough of NATO, an opinion which European intransigence is exacerbating, the EU leaders really can’t see it.
You see, the war is Russia’s fault (wrong) and therefore Russia will lose, the thinking really is that childish, it’s flying pink unicorn stuff, and no, Daddy is not going to come and fix everything in the end.
In the meantime the Europeans think they just have to wait it out and there‘s no need to make any deal with the evil Putin whatsoever.
And Putin also brought up the debate over the city of Konstantinovka which Zelensky says is completely under Ukraine control while independent mappers put it under Russian control. Putin says that there should be another temporary humanitarian ceasefire so Ukraine can evacuate civilians in front of the world's press, knowing full well Ukraine troops are nowhere near the city.
Putin is also making the point of the uncertainty over ‘grey zones’ as to why he insists on using undisputable border lines instead of disputed contact lines during any peace negotiations.
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