Witkoff Headed To Russia For Emergency Meeting With Putin

In all of the hysteria of last week, it may have escaped your notice that Donald Trump decided to get upset over what a former Russian leader had (reportedly) drunk tweeted and Trump’s response was to get all huffy and move a couple of nuclear submarines closer to Russia. Let this refresh your recollection.

A few days ago, Dmitry Medvedev—Russia’s former president and now one of Putin’s chief attack dogs—posted another unhinged message about Trump on Russian social media. This isn’t new. Medvedev has mocked, insulted, and provoked Trump before. Dozens of times. He does it almost weekly.

But this time, Trump responded by ordering nuclear submarines toward Russia’s vicinity.

And now, as expected, Putin has responded. He’s flexing right back, publicly warning how Russia would retaliate in kind—nuclear for nuclear. Just sit with that for a moment. We went from supposed peace talks, whispers of ceasefires, and international pressure for sanctions—to overnight, nuclear submarines on the move and threats of nuclear retaliation from Moscow.

And so tonight we find out that Steve Witkoff is headed to Moscow. You remember the hallowed 50 Day deadline, right? Lev Parnas kicks in his two cents and he knows considerably more about the Russia Ukraine Trump dynamic than most people.

Then he made a grand announcement—he [Trump] was sending weapons to Ukraine. That promise was never real. Behind closed doors, the deal changed. Now NATO has to step in and make the purchases, or use their own stockpiles. The whole logistics web got restructured so that Trump could say the words, take the credit, and never follow through.

Because while the press was quick to applaud Trump’s supposed “hard turn on Russia,” —I told you then: it’s all theater, reality t.v., stalling, rerouting, and sabotaging.

Meanwhile, Ukraine continues to burn.

Putin hasn’t stopped. The airstrikes, the drone assaults, the missile barrages—they’ve only intensified. The death toll climbs, cities collapse, and Trump keeps pretending to be “tough.”

But the Epstein fire kept spreading. It wouldn’t go away. So what did Trump do next?

He reached for the most dangerous prop in his box of distractions: nuclear submarines.

Yes. Nuclear subs. Deployed near Russian waters. For no clear reason other than to show off. It was reckless. It was irresponsible. It was Trump at his most dangerous—panicking in public and flexing in private.

Let’s call it what it is:

Trump doesn’t care about foreign policy.

He doesn’t care about national security.

What he cares about is the narrative.

He panicked when he lost control of the Epstein story. So what does he do? He throws another shiny object in front of the media—this time it’s nuclear submarines. And just like that, the news cycle shifts.

Or so he hopes.

But behind the scenes—the people managing his dirty laundry and foreign entanglements—are already scrambling. That’s why Steve Witkoff, the real estate developer who’s become one of Trump’s most trusted backchannel operators, is on his way back to Moscow.

And this is about salvaging the illusion of power for a man who’s built his presidency on reality TV tactics.

Trump flexes for the cameras, and now, Witkoff’s being summoned to do damage control.

This is not diplomacy.

This is a script.

This is theater.

And it’s dangerous.

Because one wrong move—one confused order, one hair-trigger reaction—and the theatrics turn into war.

Meanwhile, Trump just gave away the next part of the script.

As he was traveling back to D.C., a reporter asked him what would happen on Friday when the sanctions deadline hit. His response?

– “Russia is very good at sneaking around sanctions.”

That’s not a warning. That’s a wink.

He’s telling you outright that the sanctions will fail—and that it’s by design. Trump already gutted the departments responsible for oversight and enforcement. There’s no mechanism to track compliance. No way to hold bad actors accountable.

It’s all smoke and mirrors. Trump’s not going to war with India or China over trade. He’s not going to war with Russia over sanctions. He’s using the illusion of conflict to keep the press chasing shiny objects.

And Parnas’ bottom line is that while all the theatrics are taking place, drones and bombs are still attacking Ukraine and that is absolutely the case. Putin knows Witkoff is a real estate developer and a fool. He’s under no illusions. Whether Witkoff knows he’s a fool is debatable. He may believe he’s got some magical diplomatic powers. Vainglory does flow in the Trump administration like water in any normal regime. Ego is the watchword of the day.

So expect the smoke and mirrors to be heavy this week. Nothing has happened with respect to the Epstein scandal except to get worse. Trump could use a nice distraction. Let’s just hope that nothing gets out of hand. Again, growing up during the Cold War, I don’t see WWIII as some Never Never Land, I see it as an imminent reality, especially when there’s a fool in charge of the nuclear codes in this country and another sick man (allegedly dying of terminal cancer) in the Kremlin.

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