If Witkoff wanted to learn something about the subject he is supposed to have already mastered, he could do worse than read on one of his journeys to Moscow the 277 pages of Johns Hopkins Prof Eugene Finkel's excellent "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine".
In fact, as your article correctly points out, Witkoff knows nothing about Russia or Ukraine or the background to the conflict he is supposed to help solve.
With his abject admiration for Putin, Witkoff will advise Trump to agree to anything Putin puts forward and Ukraine can be coerced to accept. The objective is solely to enable the facile Trump to claim glory as a "peacemaker".
The problem for Trump and Witkoff is that, however hard-pressed, the Ukrainians will not simply roll over and give up their country and sovereignty to become a Russian vassal again. The self appointed Americans, having already confirmed that they will not help Ukraine with arms, have nothing of substance to offer in this "negotiation".
Your article is quite wrong to describe Kellogg as pro-Ukraine. He may be less overtly pro-Putin than Witkoff and Trump but his failure to acknowledge Russia's manifest aggression in Ukraine and Russia's responsibility for the war speaks volumes about which side he is on.
Trump was going to send his golf caddy instead of his golf partner to Moscow but then remembered he isn't strong enough to lift his clubs out of the cart by himself
A total fiasco.
If Witkoff wanted to learn something about the subject he is supposed to have already mastered, he could do worse than read on one of his journeys to Moscow the 277 pages of Johns Hopkins Prof Eugene Finkel's excellent "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine".
In fact, as your article correctly points out, Witkoff knows nothing about Russia or Ukraine or the background to the conflict he is supposed to help solve.
With his abject admiration for Putin, Witkoff will advise Trump to agree to anything Putin puts forward and Ukraine can be coerced to accept. The objective is solely to enable the facile Trump to claim glory as a "peacemaker".
The problem for Trump and Witkoff is that, however hard-pressed, the Ukrainians will not simply roll over and give up their country and sovereignty to become a Russian vassal again. The self appointed Americans, having already confirmed that they will not help Ukraine with arms, have nothing of substance to offer in this "negotiation".
Your article is quite wrong to describe Kellogg as pro-Ukraine. He may be less overtly pro-Putin than Witkoff and Trump but his failure to acknowledge Russia's manifest aggression in Ukraine and Russia's responsibility for the war speaks volumes about which side he is on.
Suggesting one of Trump's guys read a book is like me telling my dog to go to college.
Sadly true
Sadly true.
Trump was going to send his golf caddy instead of his golf partner to Moscow but then remembered he isn't strong enough to lift his clubs out of the cart by himself
Let’s see what real estate deals Trump, Witkoff and friends get from the Russians in coming years. Substantial, I bet.