It is not a glitch (that nothing gets resolved). It’s a feature. For it opens rather, a path for “Business” to be done – for “stakeholder” deals to be cut, and for billions to be shared out in payoffs. This is Trump’s geo-political transactional model: Business displaces traditional negotiation (at least while the money flows); Money is the politics.
Trump, Witkoff and Kushner are said to be confident that they can construct a financial reward system for western debt-holders, investors and politicians (and the Zelensky entourage, in the case of Ukraine) that succeeds in “retaining the financial rewards of war – without the ancillary ingredient of bloodshed.”
Once payments are apportioned – from the Trump-Witkoff perspective – the “territorial issues, security guarantees, EU membership status and the position of NATO are downstream details once the larger payment system is organized. Put another way, they are down to the stuff that really matters, the money.”
With this worldview, negotiations between the US and Russia are being pursued by two New York real-estate “gurus” (Witkoff and Kushner), together with Josh Gruenbaum, who has also been appointed as secretary to Trump’s “Gaza Peace Board”. Gruenbaum’s previous work experience has been with the KKR fund, which, although …read more
Source:: Ron Paul Institute