Not even surprised, at this point, Trump had Russia write the U.S. “peace” plan for the country Russia was losing a war with.

now here’s where the clownfuckery dial gets twisted way past eleven — because it came out that, in fact, Russia did author that ‘peace plan.’ Witkoff and Jared were apparently just acting as glorified stenographers and going ‘yes? what else would you like?’ next time, can we just send Beavis and Butt-head to ‘negotiate’? could they do worse?

To be frank, as a historian, I find the U.S. took Russian demands and fraudulently presented them as the American proposal, which is arguably worse than just a sloppy transcription of Russian demands. Trump deliberately is laundering Putin, beyond being incompetent.

The damning facts of the cheap Russian play of an American President are undisputed:

[Trump] acquiesces to many Russian demands that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has categorically rejected on dozens of occasions, including giving up large pieces of territory [while Putin says this] could form the basis of a final peace settlement.

This is what it looks like when a great power’s foreign policy apparatus becomes the lowly subsidiary of its adversary’s strategic objectives.

The mechanism matters more than the ranking. Trump is voluntarily serving as a transmission for Russian demands against Ukraine currently fighting Russia, while Ukraine is successful in defense. That’s not capitulation (you have to fight to capitulate) and it’s not appeasement (you have to believe it would bring peace). It’s what intelligence calls Trump being an “agent of influence.”

This is the worst deal ever written in history, and that is saying a LOT. It reads as a self-harm manifesto, if not seditious. America’s President has capitulated to the enemy, for what?

…the linguistic fingerprints point straight to Moscow — then this is not a peace plan. It is a Russian capitulation document drafted in Moscow, in Russian, translated awkwardly into English, routed through a Putin ally, and pushed onto a wartime ally by an American president acting outside NATO, outside existing U.S. policy, and outside the rules-based order the U.S. spent 75 years building.

Indeed, the linguistic analysis by The Guardian identified phrases that appear directly translated from Russian. Note the constructions “it is expected” (ожидается) that are standard in Russian official documents but awkward in English. Other words that appear to be translated from Russian include “ambiguities” (неоднозначности) and “to enshrine” (закрепить).

Any claims that Russian documents and aims are instead American-made should serve mainly as evidence of kompromat.

So, what did Trump do? Well, he took Putin’s Alaska “peace plan,” put his stamp of approval on it, and announced that Ukraine had until this Thursday to agree to it. But that was before Rubio told a gaggle of Senators that the Russians had written the plan, then he said the plan was ours…

Or let me put it like this: Finland submitted to Soviet pressure because it shared a 1,300-kilometer border with a superpower that invaded it twice already. America shares no border with Russia and faces no Russian military threat. Yet Trump is now performing voluntary Finlandization by surrendering all the leverage that a small nation on Russia’s doorstep never had to begin with.

This rapid voluntary submission to an adversary by the leader of a nation is historically unprecedented.

What’s the category for a leader who faces no military threat, commands the world’s most powerful military, holds all the leverage, and still transmits adversary demands against an ally?

There isn’t one.

The point of reading this “peace” plan correctly is no leader does this or has ever done this, because it’s the opposite of leadership. This is submission, subservience, defeat. Even the weakest states under direct threat still have leadership muscle to extract something. Even Pétain negotiated the “free zone.” Even Quisling was installed by an already occupying army, not volunteering to surrender for nothing gained.

Nixon sabotaged peace talks covertly, needlessly killing tens of thousands of American soldiers in Vietnam, for personal political gain. Trump transmits an American enemy’s demands openly as his own policy. When the President is the traitor, the difference isn’t degree—it’s category.

The White House is compromised by a foreign state, or the word has no meaning.

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