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Donroe Doctrine Goes Live

The Kremlin released rare footage of a high-level meeting between Vladimir Putin and Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, followed by their first trip to Kyiv this term and a comparatively restrained response from Volodymyr Zelenskyy, signaling revived U.S. diplomacy on Ukraine.

The script argues Putin views the American team as a more trusted broker than European leaders and notes a recent sequence of engagements, including CIA Director  John Ratcliffe’s public Moscow visit and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s G20 outreach to Russia’s finance minister.

With Kirill Dmitriev present, Moscow described detailed discussions of major U.S.-Russia economic projects, alongside claims that Bessent is choking off offshore and banking channels funding Ukraine via Europe, the United Kingdom and Canada.

It then pivots to Argentina’s renewed Malvinas/Falklands push as Trump publicly and reportedly reconsiders automatic U.S. support for British sovereignty, recalling internal U.S. divisions during the 1982 war. Here’s more from Susan Kokinda with Promethean Updates.

Deal Eludes Iran Negotiators

Peace talks between the United States and Iran ended Sunday after the two sides negotiated for 21 straight hours and could not reach a deal. Vice President J.D. Vance, who led the American negotiating team, said afterwards that the lack of a deal “is bad news for Iran much more so than the United States.”

Vance and his team, including Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, met with Iran in Islamabad, under the auspices of the Pakistani government. Iran blamed the failure on American “double standards,” while Vance said the two sides could not agree on terms. He did not spell out the specific terms causing a rift, but presumably, the impasse involves whether Iran will surrender its supply of enriched uranium. Here’s more from Forbes Breaking News.

Party Of Satan Will Be No More

The Democratic Party – the party of hate, the party of evil, the party of Satan — will cease to exist. The party will soon be dead, deader than a doorknob.

President Donald Trump is on a rescue mission., Can he achieve peace and end the deadly war in the Ukraine? More than two million have died since the war broke out between Russia and Ukraine.

Today, Trump meets at the White House with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the leaders of several major European nations, among them, Italy, France and Germany. Let’s all pray for a successful and sustainable peace. Here’s more from And We Know.

Why Settle Ukraine War Now?

Agreements regarding territorial exchange are the last lingering components to negotiating an end to the Ukraine War. That’s the assessment of John Mearsheimer, an international relations scholar at the University of Chicago.  Much of the underpinnings of a peace deal were already resolved at a prior conference in Istanbul, Turkey.

Steve Witkoff, the American Special Envoy to the Middle East,  believes resolving the conflict now offers the best chance for  success. “Territory” is the reason.

Under the current division of land, Russia would presumably get Crimea plus the four oblasts in the easternmost quadrant of Ukraine, around Donetsk. If the war went on longer, and Russia also seized Odessa, that would be a far more difficult territory to surrender. Not only the Ukraine, but much of the European Union would balk then.

Mearsheimer explains some of the parameters here in an interview with Aaron Maté on The Jimmy Dore Show.

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