The latest effort by the Malignant Fascist and his handler Vladimir Putin to cede Ukraine to Russia is in a 28-point "peace plan," "negotiated" by witless real estate developer (!) Steve Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev, the broad outline of which follows:
[T]he new radical proposal from Russia and the US envisages significant concessions from Kyiv and that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has already been urged to accept it.
A group of current and former Russian and American officials were involved in drawing up the plan, which is still under development, a source familiar with the talks told the Financial Times.
The plan was handed to Kyiv this week by Witkoff when he met with Rustem Umierov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, in Miami.
People with direct knowledge of the draft say it would require Ukraine to give up the remainder of Donbas, including areas currently controlled by Kyiv, and to cut the size of its armed forces by half. Reuters has also reported that the plan includes territorial concessions.
Crucially, the plan also requires Ukraine to give up key categories of weaponry and envisages a reduction in US military aid, which has been vital to its defence.
The plan further provides for Russian to be recognised as an official state language in Ukraine and for the Russian Orthodox Church to be granted official status.
The person familiar with the draft described it as a very generic document that was “heavily tilted towards Russia”. Another person familiar with the plan called it “very comfortable for Putin”.
Kyiv officials who have seen the plan say it closely mirrors the Kremlin’s maximalist demands and that without substantial changes it will be unacceptable to Ukraine. (our emphasis)
It would appear that Witkoff's role was simply to rubber stamp what Putin / Dmitriev put in front of him (he's known in U.S. intelligence circles as "Dim Philby," an allusion to British Russian spy Kim Philby, because he's both stupid and working for the Russians). Adam Silverman at "Balloon Juice" offers his critique of the plan's "maximalist Russian" demands on Ukraine:
[T]here is no way this is going to happen. There is no way any Ukrainian leader could or would accept these terms. The non-US NATO members, as well as the EU and its member states can also not accept this. Especially as EU & NATO member states are under continuous low intensity Russian attacks as we’ve seen in Poland over the past several days and with the more aggressive air space violations over the past several months. Putin’s position is that Russia has no borders. That anywhere an ethnic Russian lives is part of the Ruskiy Mir/Russian world. This isn’t going to do anything but further reduce US soft power influence, which is & has been one of Putin’s primary objectives since before he came to power, en route to rewarding and increasing Putin’s and Russia’s aggression. Territorially, the Ruskiy Mir, for Putin, means all of Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia (which is already under de facto Russian control because of is influence over the Georgian Dream party), and parts or all of Poland, the Baltics, and Finland. And that’s the minimalist map. What he’d like is everything the Soviet Union & the Russian empire held, as well as the dissolution of the EU and NATO, but he’d settle, initially, for the above.
So this would be a win / win for Putin, and a lose / lose for Ukraine and what little's left of America's tattered reputation as a reliable security partner. Fortunately, there's the rest of NATO. We're also guessing Kyiv has noticed that the weakened Malignant Fascist is losing on many fronts in the US, and is likely to have his wings clipped further come the 2026 mid- terms. They also should know that the majority of the American people are on their side. If the ignorant patsy Malignant Fascist thinks this or any other extortionist effort to bully Ukraine into a suicide pact with Russia is going to land him his coveted Nobel Peace Prize, he needs another MRI to see if there's anything in his empty head.
(Photo: Player and played; Dmitriev and "Dim Philby" Witkoff /Vyacheslav Rokofeyev/Pool via Getty)
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