President Trump is signaling that he may be prepared to sign a peace agreement with Russia and dare Ukraine to reject it.
Before you scoff, consider this hypothetical scenario:
1. Trump announces a 28-point peace framework that includes hundreds of billions in reconstruction funding, territorial swaps, a demilitarized zone, arrangements for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and American-backed security guarantees. Essentially a sweetened Witkoff–Dmitriev plan.
2. Putin goes on television, announces that the “Special Military Operation” is over, accepts the agreement, and declares an end to offensive operations.
3. Trump announces that America considers the war over and formally certifies a cessation of hostilities to Congress (setting the stage for lifting sanctions on Russia). He warns that if Ukraine rejects the agreement and continues military operations, Washington will consider Ukraine as the aggressor, not the victim, and reconsider its military, intelligence, and diplomatic support accordingly.
4. Markets surge; oil dumps. A handful of European leaders, China, and other governments welcome the breakthrough and congratulate Trump on ending the war. Trump spends the final days of the American election campaign declaring that he accomplished what everyone said was impossible.
Is this the very scenario President Zelensky was concerned about on television today?
Unfortunately, it appears my prediction below is coming true. A fake peace deal between Trump and Putin that Trump believes will save his election and that Putin will break the day after that election, and all these gifts to Putin are the Kremlin milking it in exchange for agreeing.
Agreement between Trump and Putin, forcing Zelensky to abide while knowing its just for Nov 3rd.
Putin gets concrete, permanent gifts to aid his war machine while Ukraine gets more war and more US attacks.
Meanwhile US Congress is MIA.