President Of Donald Trump top sent Steve Witkoff and a son Jared Kushner meet Putin’s negotiator Kirill Dmitriev to establish a peace agreement that will unlock hundreds of billions in frozen funds in Europe, according to a bombshell Wall Street Journal report.
Recently, Trump came up with a 28-point peace plan that was dismissed by many Republicans and others as a “Russian wish list”.
The president attacked after the leaked plan was widely criticized, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s confirmed that “The peace proposal was written by the United States. It is offered as a strong framework for ongoing negotiations. It is based on input from the Russian side. But it is also based on previous and ongoing input from Ukraine.”
In remarks to reporters, Trump later distanced himself from the plan, saying “Well, that was just a map, that’s all it was a map. That wasn’t a plan, it was a concept.”
But according to the Wall Street Journal’s a five-member reporting team — Drew Hinshaw, Benoit Faucon, Rebecca Ballhaus, Thomas Grove, and Joe Parkinson — another plan was being hatched in Miami by Trump’s business teams/officials:
At his waterfront estate, billionaire developer turned special envoy Steve Witkoff was hosting Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and Vladimir Putin’s hand-picked negotiator, who largely shaped the document they were reviewing on screen. Jared Kushner, the president’s son, had arrived from his nearby home on an island known as the “Billionaire Bunker.”
Dmitriev was pushing a plan for American companies to tap the roughly $300 billion of Russian central bank assets, frozen in Europe, for US-Russian investment projects and US-led reconstruction of Ukraine. American and Russian companies may join forces to exploit the vast mineral wealth in the Arctic. Dmitriev had argued for months there were no limits to what the two longtime adversaries could achieve: Their rival space industries, which raced against each other during the Cold War, could even pursue a joint mission to Mars with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump’s inauguration, to bypass the traditional US national security apparatus and convince the administration to see Russia not as a military threat but as a land of abundant opportunity, according to Western security officials. By dangling multibillion-dollar rare earth and energy deals, Moscow could redraw Europe’s economic map—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies.
The report goes into great depth about the secret meetings and machinations that result in the unexpected shutdown of US businesses in Russia and Ukraine. Read the full report here.