The Masterminds Behind the Masterpiece: Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ Explained

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This is a true anatomy of the absurd! The US can’t even figure out who invented this “28-point plan” — Washington, Moscow, or the all-too-familiar “private diplomats” we know so well.

The US Congressional delegation at the Halifax International Security Summit told reporters that Secretary of State Rubio had called them to say that the 28-point list was “a Russian wish list, not a US plan.”

Within hours, Washington was insisting that the Secretary’s words had been misunderstood. Meanwhile, Rubio oscillated between “we have no business here” and “this is our strong plan.”

This is how people behave when they know full well that the entire structure is about to collapse — and that everyone will suffer.

One thing is certain: the reaction in Washington was chaotic, contradictory, and mutually exclusive.

But the most interesting thing is something else.

This document did not immediately resemble an American “state plan,” as I noted from the very beginning, because it was riddled with contradictions and contained utterly primitive formulations.

A proper plan would have included mechanisms and deadlines for each item, along with prescribed regulatory and procedural actions. Only later did knowledgeable observers detect, in the English version, traces of Russian interpretations — and then, essentially, fell into place. I wrote a few days ago about Russia’s potential gains from this “special operation.”

The main question that haunts us is: “How? How did it happen that a crude, unbalanced, and completely meaningless list — from the perspective of US strategic interests — ended up on the table in the Oval Office and was even approved by the president?”

And if the answer is oversight, that is dangerous. If the answer is a Russian game, it is even more dangerous.

Because if such absurdity is elevated to the highest level of approval, what could come next? The forcible annexation of Canada? A declaration of war on Europe? Joint Russian-American military exercises?

So much psychological turmoil! And almost heart attacks — both among us and across Europe.

Now the US is beginning to back away from this “plan.” Even Trump calls the published 28-point “game” incomplete.

All this commotion is strongly reminiscent of some utterly pointless scene, where the characters get lost in their own versions of “truth.”

Is it funny? No. I cannot recall such chaos from a US administration in over 30 years of following international affairs.

If this world has not yet completely collapsed, it is certainly moving confidently in this “strategic” direction. I would love to live to see the moment when full-scale repairs begin. But it seems we still have many more collapsed walls ahead — in addition to those already caused by Trump in the White House.

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