The Russian reaction to Witkoff will be friendly, cynical and rather amusing:
“Welcome to Moscow. It looks like you are a real player now.”
Don’t have much interest in white hats and black hats.
What *is* interesting is what information is getting out of Israel prior to some tightening of media.
Rather a lot of explosions around TelAviv and elsewhere.
This is really the only thing that matters. What we are witnessing is the destruction of the narrative that worshipped the idea of Iron Dome and Patriot systems.
Maybe the new Golden Dome too. That $25B “down payment” is a waste. You only have to get one missile through when they carry nukes.
Guess what. The decades of accepting that there is no defense against incoming ballistic missiles doesn’t seem to have changed.
Do some reading about plasma stealth.