Of all the things of the past few days, I remain most interested in Trump’s bringing up “power plants”.
This is genius. Complicate everything to evade various red lines. The largest nuke plant in Europe is in one of the new Russian oblasts and it has not functioned for 2 years. It is supplying no power to Europe or Ukraine or Russia.
That is a bargaining chip and nobody was talking about it at all until Trump mentioned it.
My guess is Russia is required to supply Europe free electricity from that plant for X years as part of a deal.
Not a gambling sort, but I wouldn't make a wager on that.
Energy and other resources throughout this conflict of now more than a decade seems a fulcrum. Who controls what. Europe -- confined to the boundaries of the EU -- is not well supplied with resources they want to touch ( such as German lignite ). And this is one reason Norway didn't want to become one of the "member-states."
Larger things seem being wagered on more than two sides here. Just a notion which we'll see how things transpire. Best wishes.