There’s a WSJ article (paywalled, unfortunately) which explains why the Trump “peace plan” for Ukraine sucks so badly. Guess who’s back and is drawing up these insane “deals” on behalf of the administration?
Yes, it’s Jared Kushner. This is all about siphoning even more money to stupid Kushner.
It’s Trump’s administration 1 all over again. We haven’t even been able to get rid of Kushner since then. Like he hasn’t done enough damage already.
But at least Trump is publishing boisterous tweets. That should be enough, right?
Maybe I shouldn’t see any more news until Christmas.
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“It’s Trump’s administration 1 all over again”
Pretty much…. if not worse.
As you said, he’s panicking because of shaky economy, no real international success (apart from fulfilling Israel’s every whim which does not play well with the American public).
He’s had some moments on the russia front (flying jets over “putin”‘s head was great) but can’t understand that the russian government is not motivated by the idea of prosperity and keeps trying to win them over with business deals which is just embarrassing by this point.
Deportations are not happening in any coherent way.
It’s not like Venezuela’s got much going on in the air either, one analysis of their ‘military’ could be barely keep a straight face.
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Yeah… And now Kushner is back in play and I just can’t even. I was very naive believing that something was learned from the first administration and at least there will be no more Jarvanka situation.
I’m very naive.
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“Dmitriev was pushing a plan for U.S. companies to tap the roughly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, frozen in Europe, for U.S.-Russian investment projects and a U.S.-led reconstruction of Ukraine. U.S. and Russian companies could join to exploit the vast mineral wealth in the Arctic. There were no limits to what two longtime adversaries could achieve, Dmitriev had argued for months: Their rival space industries, which raced one another during the Cold War, could even pursue a joint mission to Mars with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump’s inauguration, to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of bountiful opportunity, according to Western security officials. By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies.
Dmitriev, a Goldman Sachs alumnus, had found receptive partners in Witkoff—Trump’s longtime golfing partner—and Kushner, whose investment fund, Affinity Partners, drew billion-dollar investments from the Arab monarchies whose conflict with Israel he had helped mediate. “
Trump is an oligarch, he has more in common with Russian oligarchs that he does with most Americans . He sees Goldman Sachs alumnus Kirill Dmitriev as one of his fellow people, and therefore a person he can do business with. Putin was smart to make this guy his negotiation, I think he has figured out Trump.
The most troubling thing to me is that even IF he really wanted to make business with Russia, this would not be about making Americans richer, this would be primarily about making himself, his family, and his fellow oligarchs richer. He and his family has gotten so rich off of crypto scams against American people, shown such utter contempt for struggling Americans, people are going to be writing dissertations about this period in the future about how so many Americans were manipulated into going against their best interests. People are starting to wake up, but I worry he’ll do so much damage before he’s done.
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lol at the idea that we’re sabre-rattling with venezuela because of drugs when he’s pardoning scum like this.
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