An initial discussion took place in Saudi Arabia on February 18th between the American team and the Russian envoys, who will eventually be discussing peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
The American delegation was composed of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff. The Russian Team consisted of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov.
Four key points were derived from the meeting. First, the countries will fully staff their embassies, under resourced by years of expulsions directed by both sides.
Second, each side will appoint a high-level team to conduct the multi-party talks between Ukraine and Russia to be overseen by the U.S.
Fourth, the five personnel in attendance made a commitment to ensuring the proceedings move forward in a timely manner.
However, it was the third point that perhaps was the most important but most overlooked by legacy media, who were in a total meltdown that “negotiations” were undertaken without Ukraine present.
Newsflash: If the legacy media did its work and read the official releases from the meeting they would realize that this meeting was not really about Ukraine, this meeting was really the first step to creating a historic rapprochement between Russia and America. In other words, this meeting was an attempt to set a pathway for peeling Russia away from their Chinese overseer.
1972 all over again, this time an attempt to strip off Russia from China?
The third point of the Russia – U.S. meeting outcome buried the lead. The actual maneuver in this meeting was not to cut out Zelensky, but it seems it was to discuss a post-Ukraine environment where the U.S. and Russia could establish a new relationship and cut out China.
In 1972, President Nixon took a big gamble and risk. Informed and championed by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, now seen as a Globalist, not an anti-Communist hawk, President Nixon saw an opportunity to throw the Cold War a curve ball by peeling off Communist China from the Soviet-led Communist sphere.
It did not turn out well in the long run, but at the time, there was some logic to this maneuver. The Nixon Administration was aware of two key situations. First, the Soviet Union and China nearly came to a nuclear exchange over their their 1969 border conflict. Second, the Corona Spy Satellite Program revealed that the United States had a significant nuclear advantage over the Soviets.
The 1972 foray by President Nixon to China was an attempt to create an end around the standoff with the Soviets by taking advantage of a perceived fissure between the two largest Communist nations. Nixon and Kissinger were convinced they could leverage China as a counterforce to the Soviet Union by exploiting the hostility between the two Communist countries. In hindsight, Nixon and Kissinger misunderstood China.
At the time, China was a North Korea-like Hermit Kingdom on a larger scale, terrified by the specter of Chang Kai-shek conducting a landing to re-take the mainland while China experienced constant CIA sponsored spy flights. China was also reeling from the mass starvation and bloodshed of the Cultural Revolution. If the Americans were willing to turn the other way while Chang Kai-shek was thrown out of the United Nations and Communist China received its coveted Permanent Seat on the Security Council – the People’s Republic of China was happy to feign ping-pong diplomacy.
Re-setting the Russia-America relationship destroyed by Secretary Madeline Albright
The real supervillain in this story points toward President Clinton’s Secretary of State, Madeline Albright. In the 1990s, the Russians were on their knees in almost total collapse. Instead of taking this opportunity to implement an historic rapprochement and establish a mutually beneficial relationship, Madeline Albright instead chose to step forward and bravely kick the Russians in the teeth. Albright had a strong contempt and vitriol for Russia and Putin – even when they were in abject disarray.
Haiti and the early days of NGO money laundering distracted Albright. She could direct the downsizing of the U.S. Military into United Nation’s, Blue Helmet-like, peacekeeping operations, keep her boot on the neck of Putin, and help the Clintons master the art of NGO money laundering. Putin was and still has a thuggish KGB outlook and an unshakeable paranoia of palace intrigue, but Albright’s elbow to the throat only validated his worldview. A tragedy and lost opportunity for all. The pathway was set to the Deep State, synched with the Globalist world view, which hedged its bet on a “capitalistic” China that would conform to the West.
President Zelensky gets in social media spat with President Trump, then backpedals
President Zelensky of Ukraine chose to get into a verbal spat with President Trump over impending multi-party talks. “We cannot accept it, as an independent country,” President Zelensky said, referring to the perceived topics of the meeting going on between Russia and the United States in Saudi Arabia.
Zelensky, perhaps, said this before he read the statements on what Russia and the United States had really discussed. Vice-President Vance chided back and said it was not wise to get involved in such discourse and “bad mouthing” of President Trump. Such exchanges normally end in another mark in the win column for President Trump.
One of the negotiation points raised by President Trump was a deal for American access to minerals and rare earth metals in Ukraine. After immense blood and treasure was spent in Afghanistan and Iraq with zero return for America, it was insulting to see third countries like China step in and receive contracts for infrastructure and energy development.
America receiving something in return for becoming involved in negotiations is a reasonable part of an America First strategy. Zelensky pushed back on a better deal for Ukraine but then offered to resign if certain conditions were met. In the art of the deal, Zelensky is giving away leverage before the real negotiations have begun.
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