The problem now for Trump, and for DC, is that there is no personal charm, no art of the deal, none of the DC sophistry and scams that will get Russia to sign on.
This war is the end result of about 20 years of western insults, provocations, lies, and subterfuge. They have finally run into an actual red line. And Trump in DC don’t know how to act when they bump into someone that actually means literally what they say.
Bottom line, we desperately want this deal to protect our Nazi friends in Ukraine, and for us to be able to quit shipping weapons, and start the rebuilding and that land rush.
And Russia has no interest in that frozen conflict concept DC has been pushing for a year now. They play chess, not checkers. They know the minute there’s a cease-fire, NATO is going to flood in with no-fly zones, advisers, so-called peacekeepers to embed in every Ukrainian position, and then give them some sort of NATO, or NATO light status.
It’s good that they are talking, but DC needs to understand a little reality.