Have you ever wondered what these two actually discuss on the rare occasions when they meet face-to-face?
Of course, you have. The very fact that we are given so little information following their get-togethers is all that’s needed to pique our curiosity.
The same holds true for the “negotiations” that have taken place in Moscow between Vladimir Putin’s team and the American vaudeville act of Witkoff and Kushner. They travel, they meet, they slam down some vodka and caviar, they fly home . . . and all we get are assurances that the meetings were “productive” and included a discussion of a possible trilateral meeting in the near future.
Whoop-dee-do!
But now, The New York Times, citing “people familiar with the meeting,” reports that, when Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Putin on September 5th of this year, Putin raised the possibility of a multi-billion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives who happen to have ties to both Witkoff and Kushner. [Disha Mishra, Reuters, October 3, 2026.]
According to the NYT report, the deal would involve a widespread network of oil fields, refineries and gas stations around the world, owned by the Russian energy giant Lukoil. And while the transaction is — at least technically — contingent on approval from the U.S. government as well as the Kremlin, it is hard to imagine that either would disapprove . . . at least as long as Trump can push it through Congress while he still has a subservient Republican majority.
On Putin’s part, he reportedly said the proposal would be a way to show the Russian people — who are less than thrilled with the way the war is going — that they can still do business with the United States.
Well, as long as Donnie can help save his friend Vlad’s skin, and pull in an extra few billion dollars in the bargain, then I’m as happy as a raccoon in a garbage can.
I have to wonder, though: Did Witkoff, Kushner and Putin even get around to discussing actually trying to end the war in Ukraine?
There truly are no words.
Just sayin’ . . .
Brendochka
10/5/26
