One week from today Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will meet in Alaska to discuss “some swapping of territories,” to quote Trump. “Swapping?” Putin taking over Donbas and Crimea (which is likely how it will go) is “swapping?” And what is Ukraine going to get on their side of the “swap” some damaged drones to rebuild? A washing machine or two, perhaps? This will be the first time since 2019 that Trump and Putin have been in the same room and you remember how that went. Trump told Putin, “Don’t meddle in the election,” funny ha ha. Lev Parnas, who is Ukrainian, speaks of the pounding Ukraine took just last night. And the pounding he expects it to take diplomatically one week from today.
At 8:30 p.m. on August 7, the assault began.
From Shatalovo, Kursk, Bryansk, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia — and from occupied Chauda in Crimea — Russia launched 108 aerial attacks on Ukraine:
- 104 Shahed-type kamikaze drones
- 4 high-speed, jet-powered UAVs
- Multiple decoy drones
Ukraine’s defenders — the Air Force, air defense missile units, mobile fire groups, electronic warfare, and UAV units — fought back. As of 8 a.m. this morning, 82 enemy drones were destroyed or suppressed.
But 26 drones hit their targets in ten locations, with debris raining down in eight more.
This is what Trump is allowing — no, enabling — to happen. This is what delay looks like. And that delay is not random. It’s calculated.
According to my sources, this was all theatrics choreographed and set in motion by Vladimir Putin himself. With Russia’s economy breaking under pressure, Putin needed a way out that still kept all the territories he’s seized in the meantime.
My sources say Putin personally put together the deal, handed it to Witkoff, had Witkoff deliver it to Trump, and then had Trump send Witkoff to Ukraine — making it appear as if the deal was Trump’s own idea.
And here are some key points of that proposal:
- A temporary truce — not peace — freezing the front lines where they are now.
- Postponing the status of occupied territories for 49 to 99 years, leaving them under Russian control for decades.
- Gradual lifting of U.S. sanctions against Russia — the linchpin that makes the rest of the deal possible.
- Resumption of Russian energy imports to Europe over time — Nord Stream 1 & 2 suddenly back in the conversation.
- No commitments to halt NATO expansion — wasn’t this the whole reason why Putin went to war in the first place?
- No promises to stop military aid to Ukraine — because Trump has already shifted that burden onto Europe.
My sources tell me this entire sequence — from Trump and Medvedev’s WWIII scare theatrics, to the “urgent” deadline, to a sudden meeting with Putin on U.S. soil in Alaska — was choreographed.
What will happen next week is that Russia will get rewarded for its aggression. The “next century of energy and wealth” is on the line. The lands that Russia wants to take and most probably will take will be oil and mineral rich. And that will be the preamble for the reactivation of the Nordstream.
Even Rubio seemed out of the loop, telling reporters “we have to study and see.” Meanwhile, Trump was all smiles, saying “everything is moving fast” and Minutes later, Russian officials echoed his words. That’s not coincidence — that’s a direct Trump-Putin channel in action.
If this deal is real, Russia will get rewarded for their aggression and it will cement decades-long occupation and Economic Realignment: Reopening Russian energy flow, shifting the balance of global power.
It will be the most controversial peace overture yet — and it will put the Western alliance at a crossroads between ending the war at any cost and upholding the principles that bound them together.
To that end, Trump told Volodymyr Zelensky, “Get ready to sign something.” I don’t know if anybody has definitively predicted exactly what the outcome of next week’s summit will be, but we are definitely having an historic moment here. And the biggest moron ever to occupy the Oval Office is ready to undercut the bravest leader of his generation in the world. This is a tragic moment that we are witnessing in real time. The world could be a different place one week from now.
He’s definitely not winning the Nobel Peace Prize for this.
How can he negotiate peace between two countries at war when he only negotiates with one side?
Imagine negotiating peace in WW2 by negotiating only with Germany and none of the allies.
Trump & Putin can make all the crooked deals they want. Ukraine will never surrender and Europe will never accept any kind of deal which rewards Russia’s imperial ambitions. Neither Trump nor Putin runs the world although they’re terrific at fucking it up.
As an adjunct to my previous comment: Putin’s losing his filthy war as well as his hold on power in Russia, so he wants his bumboy Trump to help him out. The absurd tariffs on all America’s allies weren’t enough.