Under this scenario Russia would have military and economic control of occupied Ukraine under its own governing body, imitating Israel’s de facto rule of Palestinian territory seized from Jordan in 1967.
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Witkoff, who is also tasked by Trump with bringing peace to the Middle East, is understood to support the idea, which the Americans believe circumvents barriers in the Ukrainian constitution to ceding territory without holding an “all-Ukraine” referendum.
Average includes the extremes. Trump, Putin and King Elizabeth all grew up in different parts of the “good” world with extreme wealth and power and all of them became assholes. At some point, you have to think that humanity is bound to end at this point whatever you do.
Also, this is another hot take but they are what they are because we let them be. Every American is complicit in Trump’s actions whether they voted for him or not. If we really cared, we would have stormed the White House by now. We don’t, so we don’t. I know I don’t care enough about Ukraine or Palestine to do anything other than online discussion or boycotting some brands.