Michael Weiss
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Just before the tryptophan kicks in from your Turkey, you know, extravaganza, we're going to decide the future of Europe and NATO.
Yes, because everybody knew the minute this thing stepped into the light, it's going to fall apart, which is exactly what's happened.
So at Geneva, I know I'm going long here, but the details of this are at Geneva, Rubio's there, Driscoll is there.
Witkoff is there.
Kushner is not.
Vance is not.
And they're sitting with the Ukrainians.
And basically, the Ukrainian deputy foreign minister, who used to be their ambassador to the United Nations, a very smart guy, when he got wind of this plan leaking, he basically compared it to a Soviet active measure or a Russian info op, just to give you a sense of the Ukrainian perspective on it.
He is now saying, all of that noise, all of that horrible stuff has been stripped away.
28 points pared down to 19.
The clause about NATO and the future of NATO, including Ukraine's possible membership in it, that's been removed.
Territorial concessions have been removed.
That was the other point I should have made earlier.
In the first document, it was Ukraine must give up Donetsk, which it has fought.
mightily to retain at least the parts that it still has and Donetsk under Ukrainian control.
This is a succession of citadel cities.
This is one of the most fortified places in the world.
They must give that up to the Russians, which the Russians cannot take militarily.
It would take them 80 years to conquer it all.
and de facto recognition of all the stuff that Russia is currently occupying.