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There is no Russian nyet.

The entire draft was crafted by Witkoff and Dmitriev. Dmitriev was acting under the direction of his superiors and certain Witkoff was, too.

The $100B is gone. It will be transferred to the US for US administration rebuilding.

If the EU fails to spend $100B of its own, then the agreement is violated and to pressure them not to fail in this, Trump can threaten to return the Russian assets that would at that point be in a US escrow institution like JPM.

I do not know why people are wandering around saying Russia made no concessions. They are obviously not demanding a pro Russia government in Kiev. They were willing to accept merely an election within 100 days. Huge concession, and they may regret it.

Here is the pressure Trump has. Long range drones into Russia likely require guidance from US AWACS, which have a satellite link. The Brits do not have this.

There is also the matter of Russian troop concentrations in the Donbas (and apparently, soon, Kharkiv) that they will not know about without US satellite recon.

Trump gave him until Thursday. For his own good. Gabbard’s satellites have told him the state of the battlefield.