{"id":1359815,"date":"2026-02-19T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/geneva-blood-bargain-how-trump-and-putin-are-preparing-a-peaceful-noose-for-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:26:08","slug":"geneva-blood-bargain-how-trump-and-putin-are-preparing-a-peaceful-noose-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/geneva-blood-bargain-how-trump-and-putin-are-preparing-a-peaceful-noose-for-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva\u2019s Dirty Deal: How Trump and Putin Are Tightening the \u2018Peace\u2019 Noose Around Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em>
\nMoscow, remaining true to its terrorist tactics, welcomed the start of the negotiations with a massive strike on Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure. Hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles became the Kremlin\u2019s real non-paper\u2014not a diplomatic document, but an ultimatum written in the wreckage of transformers and the cold of darkened homes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are not “parallel tracks” or “non-adjacent processes.” This is one single strategy: to break our spines with frost, so that in Geneva we sign the surrender with trembling hands – not from the weight of history, but from the temperature in our own apartments.<\/p>\n

We need to look soberly: what is happening now is not a search for peace. This is a bargain for our sovereignty, where Ukraine is trying to remain a subject, but it is stubbornly being dragged into the role of a commodity. Trump wants to quickly “sell” this to his electorate as a “successful case”: he stopped the war, checked the box, and moved on. Putin wants to sell it to his own, as the legalization of a savage occupation: they say, the world has recognized that it is possible to kill, rob, and seize territories for it. And the real price of this “peace” is our land, our army, our memory, our children, our dead, and our right to call a crime a crime.<\/p>\n

Who is in the room?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are three people in the room. But two people have weight in the room.<\/p>\n

1) USA (Witkoff and Kushner).
\nTrump sent his “decision makers” – not diplomats. These are people for whom Ukraine is not a story of freedom but a case of risk management: how to “close” a war at minimal cost. Their religion is a deadline. Their goal is “quickly”. Because “quickly” is more important to Trump than “fairly”, and justice is always long, expensive, and inconvenient. And most importantly, “quickly” means the bill will be given to the weaker, hurting one. This is basic business logic when a humanitarian tragedy is translated into KPIs.<\/p>\n

2) Russia (Medinsky and security forces).
\nThey did not come for a truce. They came for the rest of Donetsk Oblast and a seal that would legalize looting. They do not need silence in the sky \u2013 they need a piece of paper that would turn crime into the norm. All their \u201cpeace\u201d formulas are tools for legalizing occupation, institutionalizing violence, and whitewashing aggression retrospectively. Their ideal \u201cpeace\u201d is a pause in which Ukraine demilitarizes and Russia rearms.<\/p>\n

3) Ukraine (Umerov delegation).
\nThe Ukrainian delegation is caught between the hammer of Russian missiles and the anvil of American pressure \u201cfor results.\u201d These are negotiations with a gun to their head, where \u201cde-escalation\u201d means \u201cgive up a part of yourself so we can take the gun off for an hour.\u201d But the main problem is not who is sitting in the room. The main problem is what is on the table, and what traps are sewn into the papers.<\/p>\n\t\t