Trump’s Envoys Got Stood Up by Putin, and Now Peace Talks Are Pushed to 2027
So much for quick peace deals: after a bizarre weekend summit where Donald Trump’s emissaries cooled their heels at a swanky Russian restaurant, Western allies quietly admitted the war is dragging into 2027.
Donald Trump sent his trusted envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, to work their dealmaking magic. Instead, Vladimir Putin treated them like walk-in customers who forgot to book a table.
To stage a domestic power play ahead of upcoming elections, the Russian ruler left the American delegation waiting until the evening, stranding them for hours over an awkward lunch with Kremlin insider Kirill Dmitriev at a high-end Moscow restaurant. When the meeting finally happened, Putin gave up zero ground and made it obvious he intends to drag the war past 2026.
Instead of an imminent breakthrough, Western officials are now bracing for another brutal half-year of targeted strikes on heating infrastructure, hybrid chaos in Europe, and a frantic scramble inside NATO to secure more interceptor missiles for Patriot systems.
Promising to wrap up a massive continental war in twenty-four hours hits a very awkward wall when the other dictator is entirely comfortable burning the clock for another few years.
Source: Bloomberg
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