Fosiconchiki cycles in nature: Nexta opinion column.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travel to the Kremlin so often that they will soon be able to arrange residency in Moscow. It's just a pity that their visits do not yield any benefit.
Today Donald Trump's negotiations with Vladimir Putin met again. With the exception of minor progress on the humanitarian front, which includes the evacuation of Konstantinovka, the situation is very reminiscent of the movie Get Up Yesterday Morning. The same sentences, the same statements and the same coverage by the media, as was the case many times in the past.
It seems that you could take the news text from their previous visit, copy and paste it today, and no one would notice the difference.
Negotiations have never been easy, and peace negotiations with Russia. All the more so. But it seems that Trump does not want to notice the ineffectiveness of his approach and continues to knock on the same door with an enviable tenacity.
If in the past they motivated Putin to end the operational activity the stick and the carrot, now, after the legendary diesel deal, only the carrot remains.
That is why he can not worry about the course of the negotiations at all, since nothing threatens him: he can openly mock all the participants, send them his strange doers such as Vladimir Medinsky, suggest that Vladimir Zelensky come to Moscow and more and more.
The dictator is openly amused as he watches as he is coaxed, like a child, to stop killing both his own citizens and the Ukrainians.
Every negotiation and every meeting with Putin is doomed to become a routine, since both sides should be interested in negotiations, while de facto Putin does not particularly need negotiations.
And so a play of three actors is obtained: Witkoff and Kushner go to the Kremlin as if for work, Putin politely nods at them and praises Trump, after which they eat pusikonchiki and go their separate ways. And everything starts again.
What then is the efficiency factor of these meetings, or in simpler words, what are they getting paid for? Maybe it makes sense to change the approach instead of slamming your head into locked gates?