Is Witkoff warning Zelensky today Trump will end intelligence support for Ukrainian air strikes, unless Kiev shows more flexibility? Might this be one of the “considerations about ways to reach a settlement” (Ushakov’s readout) broached to Putin yesterday?
Putin Meets with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner
Putin tells Witkoff/Kushner the work ahead is difficult but he trusts them. 3-hr talks yesterday “constructive”(TASS). Witkoff & Kushner in Kiev today. Putin warned them, “We never agreed with Kiev’s proposal for 3-day truce”. Soto voce: Best to leave Kiev by sundown. http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/80699
NATO Pushed Russia Too Far – Is Putin Ready to Confront NATO?
Laurel & Hardy (aka Witkoff & Kushner) in Moscow today. Will discuss a Ukraine basket case without air defense or access to sea. A deal possible, but this time Putin not likely to play Charlie Brown and fall for Lucy picking up the football. The backdrop:
Iran Fires SURPRISE Missile Attack on US Air Base, Israel is NEXT
VP Vance: I would not be shocked if Antichrist is walking among us & we are in the “End Times”. The Kremlin cannot dismiss this as mere pandering to the likes of Peter Thiel. Putin adviser Lukyanov: Nuclear deterrence is losing its grip. A combustible mix.
“No NATO one inch east”
Why US promise “No NATO one-inch east” not put in writing, I asked Gorbachev aide Kuvaldin. He winced: “Because we trusted you.” Later, a fleeting moment of “growing trust” https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html. None now.
Inside the CIA’s Moscow Meeting
Nima and I discuss Ratcliffe’s visit to Moscow and how his interlocutors must have reacted if he told them Russia is “losing” in Ukraine and its economy is crumbling. I look back a few years citing examples of Deep State hard at work — including on Fauci.
Alexander Mercouris touts VIPS Memorandum
Alexander Mercouris touts VIPS Memorandum to Trump consortiumnews.com/2026/08/28/vip as antidote for the drivel Trump is being fed about “Putin’s Loss” in Ukraine. Mercouris’s 4-min segment on VIPS starts at min 54:20.
VIPS MEMO: Dangerous Talk of Putin’s ‘Loss’ in Ukraine
In VIPS Memorandum for the President today, we list how many times the NYTimes (et al.) have announced Putin’s “loss” in Ukraine – most recently re CIA chief’s Moscow visit. We urge Trump to “kick the tires” this time around.
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/08/28/vips-memo-dangerous-talk-of-putins-loss-in-ukraine/
At the White House on Aug. 18, 2025, before the U.S. president met with with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and European and NATO leaders in the Oval Office. (White House/Daniel Torok)
It’s My 87th Birthday!
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Israel’s Clash With Two Major Armies Signals Its Worst Defeat Yet
A year after Anchorage, top Putin adviser Fyodor Lukyanov writes succinctly re lessons learned: rt.com/news/644511-wh“Russia must end the present war, AND PREVENT THE NEXT ONE, without waiting for magical solutions or grand bargains imposed from abroad.”