It appears that the Kremlin is looking to defuse the appearance of divisions within the Russian leadership, following a week of pointed exchanges that featured foreign minister Sergey Lavrov—apparently speaking for NatSec officials—attacking the stance of Putin friend Kirill Dmitriev, who has conducted widely publicized talks with Trump friend Steve Witkoff.
Could it be that USA has given up on the idea to 'bring down' Putin through warfare, both economic and kinetic, so is now focusing on fomenting division within the Russian leadership through these 'negotiations'?
The fact that Lavrov isn't meeting with Kushner and Witkoff tells me all I need to know. He doesn't consider them serious people.
When is Russia going to get an admission of Sleepy Joe Biden's order to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines? Nobody believes that a couple of guys from Ukraine did it. The US has used economic sanctions to hurt other countries way too much over the years. Therefore, the loss of demand for the dollar has gone away due to their fault. And the US and European confiscations are nonsensical. The same goes for seizing ships full of oil.
When the dipshit Bessent bragged about being behind the unrest in Iran in 2026, and what we're doing to Cuba, it's like they are still in high school. First, why are we doing this, and second, why is he bragging about it?
p.s. Once Witkoff was revealed as a chum of Epstein's, why has he been allowed to represent the US and receive a paycheck from us, the taxpayers? I know he laundered money for Russian oligarchs and other slimy people, but why not send someone like Jeffrey Sachs?
Your comment is sensible because of all we have been learning about Trump's administration as a "handler" or "puppeteer" operation. But, we've also learned that Russia has a country-to-country relationship with Israel. I don't know the geopolitical issues that make for compatible agreements between them, but the relationship exists, and that gives me some kind of understanding as to why Putin allows these Jewish Nationalist men to "pitch diplomacy Trump style" to his government, even though the Russian State is appalled by the undignified approach to statecraft by unseemly and anti-diplomatic representatives (i.e. Trump, Witkoff, Kushner).
Europe was benefiting from long-term reasonable natural gas contracts from Russia via Nord Stream. The most direct beneficiary of that cheap energy policy was Germany and its industrial place now Germany’s industrial base is in tatters as much of the rest of the European economies.
The United States with CIA, MI6, and probably Mossad, went in and blew up the Nord Stream pipelines. It is unbelievable that Europe would allow the United States to cut off the energy supplies they needed so they could aid in their own destruction. To make what point. Then to try to force Europe to buy LNG from the United States, which is much more expensive and the fact that the United States and Europe didn’t have enough facilities to expedite shipping that much LNG to them
Any settlement with the West is going to have to include compensation to Russia and those companies for the Nordstream pipelines.
Contrary to your opinion, Europe's myopia is believable, to me, because once a person, or a country willfullly disbands their conscience from striving for "the Good" in order to fit into someone else's/another country's wants, or, point of view, or, plans---he, or it, loses agency and becomes enslaved. Europe chose vanity versus struggling labor---think of the fairytale "Rapunzel".
Alastair Crooke's concise review of how peace talks with Russia have been dollarized
Trump Kabuki theatre in Ukraine: Nothing of substance gets resolved: The Witkoff negotiation enterprise is distancing Russia from its security imperatives.
Could it be that USA has given up on the idea to 'bring down' Putin through warfare, both economic and kinetic, so is now focusing on fomenting division within the Russian leadership through these 'negotiations'?
The fact that Lavrov isn't meeting with Kushner and Witkoff tells me all I need to know. He doesn't consider them serious people.
When is Russia going to get an admission of Sleepy Joe Biden's order to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines? Nobody believes that a couple of guys from Ukraine did it. The US has used economic sanctions to hurt other countries way too much over the years. Therefore, the loss of demand for the dollar has gone away due to their fault. And the US and European confiscations are nonsensical. The same goes for seizing ships full of oil.
When the dipshit Bessent bragged about being behind the unrest in Iran in 2026, and what we're doing to Cuba, it's like they are still in high school. First, why are we doing this, and second, why is he bragging about it?
p.s. Once Witkoff was revealed as a chum of Epstein's, why has he been allowed to represent the US and receive a paycheck from us, the taxpayers? I know he laundered money for Russian oligarchs and other slimy people, but why not send someone like Jeffrey Sachs?
Witkoff and kushner, cronyism and nepotism, both zpecial people. No respect-worthy policy will emanate, just a foul odor of deceit and cheating
Your comment is sensible because of all we have been learning about Trump's administration as a "handler" or "puppeteer" operation. But, we've also learned that Russia has a country-to-country relationship with Israel. I don't know the geopolitical issues that make for compatible agreements between them, but the relationship exists, and that gives me some kind of understanding as to why Putin allows these Jewish Nationalist men to "pitch diplomacy Trump style" to his government, even though the Russian State is appalled by the undignified approach to statecraft by unseemly and anti-diplomatic representatives (i.e. Trump, Witkoff, Kushner).
Europe was benefiting from long-term reasonable natural gas contracts from Russia via Nord Stream. The most direct beneficiary of that cheap energy policy was Germany and its industrial place now Germany’s industrial base is in tatters as much of the rest of the European economies.
The United States with CIA, MI6, and probably Mossad, went in and blew up the Nord Stream pipelines. It is unbelievable that Europe would allow the United States to cut off the energy supplies they needed so they could aid in their own destruction. To make what point. Then to try to force Europe to buy LNG from the United States, which is much more expensive and the fact that the United States and Europe didn’t have enough facilities to expedite shipping that much LNG to them
Any settlement with the West is going to have to include compensation to Russia and those companies for the Nordstream pipelines.
Contrary to your opinion, Europe's myopia is believable, to me, because once a person, or a country willfullly disbands their conscience from striving for "the Good" in order to fit into someone else's/another country's wants, or, point of view, or, plans---he, or it, loses agency and becomes enslaved. Europe chose vanity versus struggling labor---think of the fairytale "Rapunzel".
All the while Europe disconnects from Russian gas and oil and the Middle Corridor bores along full steam ahead.
Sounds like the Minsk Agreement version 2.0.
Alastair Crooke's concise review of how peace talks with Russia have been dollarized
Trump Kabuki theatre in Ukraine: Nothing of substance gets resolved: The Witkoff negotiation enterprise is distancing Russia from its security imperatives.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/02/16/trump-kabuki-theatre-in-ukraine-nothing-substance-gets-resolved/