"Nitwitskoff, a real estate developer who had no prior diplomatic experience 

 before being tasked as Donald Trump’s special envoy, downplayed fears of Vladimir Putin launching a broader aggression.

“I just don’t see that he wants to take all of Europe,” he said. “I take him at his word in this sense"

"He ain 't that Hungary."  

(Neophytes-R-US outlet in closest megayacht) 

Witkoff said he “liked” the Russian president – “ 

I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy … He’s super smart”, he said

is that mutually exclusive, smart/bad? duh

"I think there’s this, you know, this sort of notion of we’ve all got to be like Winston Churchill, the Russians are gonna march across Europe. I think that’s preposterous. By the way, we have something called Nato that we did not have in World War II.” 

and Allies were USA/ Russia, bad/smart Nazis had Germany.  

Real Estate History from Felon Trump, Nitwit scoff, Kushner Inc , etc etc

“The largest issue in that conflict are these so-called four regions, Donbas, Crimea, you know the names and there are two others,” said Witkoff,  

in remarks that appeared to be an attempt to name Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson and that confused Crimea for one of the four occupied eastern territories. " 

"historian Anne Applebaum. “If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, 

 spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin,” she wrote"

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"The post-second world war taboo on acquiring territory through force or by the threat of force is being unravelled by a generation of political leaders, led by expansionist threats from Donald Trump that are unprecedented for a US president.

Experts are warning that a combination of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and 

 Trump’s comments explicitly pushing for 

 the US to acquire Greenland, Canada, the Panama canal and Gaza 

is fuelling a permissive environment that threatens long-recognised borders and the international rules-based order that has existed since the end of the war. 

In Europe, what was once unthinkable, that Russia could physically threaten the Baltic and eastern states, is not just imaginable but an urgent security issue. 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/trump-expansionism-threatens-the-rules-based-order-in-place-since-second-world-war