BREAKING: Trump’s Ukraine ‘Ultimatum/Peace Deal’ Is a $2 Trillion Cash Grab for Trump, Putin and Their Pals

​So it turns out Donald Trump’s big plan to “end” the Russia‑Ukraine war isn’t really about peace. It’s about getting rich off the rubble and the bones of Ukraine’s war dead.

November 30, 2025

According to a new bombshell Wall Street Journal report, Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner aren’t just in Moscow talking ceasefires and borders. They’re negotiating business deals – lining up U.S. companies (and Trump‑world donors) to cash in on Russia’s comeback and Ukraine’s reconstruction once the shooting slows down.

That’s not a peace plan. That’s a hostile takeover with air support.

The WSJ Bombshell: Peace for Sale, Cash Only

Here’s what the WSJ (and follow‑on reporting) lays out in plain English:

• Trump’s “peace” effort is built around reviving Russia’s $2 trillion economy through joint U.S.–Russia ventures.

• At the heart of it? Roughly $300 billion in frozen Russian central bank assets. The idea is to unlock that money and funnel it into “investment projects” and U.S‑led “reconstruction” – with Russia and Trump‑aligned investors holding the other end of the hose.

• Russia gets sanctions relief and fresh capital. Trump’s friends get a cut. Ukraine gets… whatever’s left after everyone takes their fees.

Steve Witkoff, Trump’s billionaire golf buddy turned “special envoy,” literally gushes to the WSJ about Russia’s potential:

Russia has “so many vast resources, vast expanses of land,” he says, imagining a future where Russia, the U.S. and Ukraine are all business partners.

Translation: We can all get rich together if we just stop being so fussy about invasions and war crimes.

The Journal details how Russian sovereign‑wealth boss Kirill Dmitriev is dangling big‑ticket projects in front of Trump‑world:

• Arctic oil and gas ventures

• Mining Russia’s “vast resources”

• Even talk of a U.S.–Russia mission to Mars because of course there is

And who has seats at this table?

• Gentry Beach, a Trump‑aligned investor and college buddy of Don Jr., in talks to grab a stake in a Russian Arctic gas project – if sanctions get lifted.

• Stephen P. Lynch, a Trump megadonor, reportedly working with Don Jr. on buying into the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

So when you hear “peace deal,” what you should picture is not doves and handshakes. It’s a term sheet.

The Map Re‑Draw: Ukraine Loses Land, Russia Gains a Partner

While the money guys are measuring pipelines, the political side of this thing hasn’t gotten any less ugly.

The underlying draft still looks like this, in one form or another:

• The U.S. moves toward recognising Russia’s control over Crimea and big chunks of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – including areas Russia doesn’t even fully occupy right now.

• Ukraine gets told:

  • No NATO membership

  • No permanent Western bases

  • A smaller army than it wants or needs

• Russia keeps its land‑grab, gets Western money to reboot its economy, and a shiny new stake in Ukraine’s future infrastructure.

In other words, Putin doesn’t just get a trophy. He gets a tollbooth.

Even the Daily Beast, summarising the WSJ, put it bluntly: at the centre of Trump’s plan “isn’t peace: it’s profit.”

Ukraine and Europe: “We See the Scam”

This isn’t happening in a vacuum. Kyiv and Europe can smell the grift.

• Ukraine has been screaming the same thing for months: no territorial concessions, no forced neutrality, no Constitution‑violating “just give Putin the land and call it a day” settlements.

• Europe’s “Coalition of the Willing” (UK, France, Germany, etc.) has already put out a counter‑proposal and a very carefully worded “we’re not idiots” statement:

  • Borders cannot be changed by force

  • Ukraine must be fully involved in any deal

  • Territorial questions should be handled after a ceasefire, not baked in as an up‑front reward to Moscow

They see what Trump is doing: wrapping a huge geopolitical concession to Putin in a glossy “jobs and investment” bow, then daring allies to oppose it.

Because if you oppose it, hey, you must be against peace and prosperity, right?

More ‘Breaking News’ on the EU’s coming response in another essay later today.

Steve Witkoff: From Russian Mob‑Adjacent Letters to Kremlin Whisperer

Now, if this whole thing feels like it was designed by someone who treats Russia as an exciting emerging market, not the country actively blowing apart another democracy, that’s because… it kind of was.

Steve Witkoff is not a diplomat. He’s a Russian Asset and New York real‑estate baron from Trump’s world:

• Long‑time Trump friend and donor

• Trump golf partner

• Now mysteriously anointed “special envoy for peace missions” whith a 30 year hostory of making billions rinsing Russian money into the US economy.

His history:

• He once wrote a recommendation letter for Anatoly Golubchik, later convicted in a federal case involving a Russian‑American organised‑crime gambling ring that ran games out of – wait for it – Trump Tower. Court records back that up; Witkoff himself has said he regrets the letter.

• Investigative reporting has long placed him in the same financial ecosystem as post‑Soviet money looking for Western real estate to hide in.

Again: that doesn’t prove he’s anybody’s “asset.” But when you put that history next to his leaked October phone call with the Kremlin, in which he coaches Putin’s aide on how to flatter Trump and shape his view of Ukraine, you start to see a pattern.

Republicans and Democrats in Congress read that transcript and called him – their words – a “traitor” who “cannot be trusted.” They’re now watching the WSJ spell out a peace plan that also happens to be a giant business opportunity for Trump’s circle.

If you drew this as a Venn diagram, “peace talks,” “Russian state interests,” and “Trump’s donor network” would be almost a single circle.

Ukraine’s Role: Shut Up, Smile, and Be the Project

The most offensive part of all this isn’t even the money. It’s the complete erasure of Ukraine as an actual country.

Look at the cast list:

• Trump

• Witkoff

• Kushner

• Russian sovereign wealth funds

• U.S. megadonors

• Energy guys

• Space‑cowboy types dreaming of Mars missions

Ukraine is not a partner. Ukraine is the asset.

The same WSJ‑driven reporting notes that when Ukraine asked for Tomahawk missiles to strengthen its hand before any talks, Trump said no. His team’s big idea instead? Have Ukraine ask for a 10‑year tariff exemption to “supercharge” its economy once the deal is done.

So:

• Russia gets land and leverage.

• Trumpworld gets deals and pipelines.

• Ukraine gets a coupon.

No wonder Trump’s own Ukraine envoy, Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, reportedly resigned after being frozen out of the talks. When even the retired general they hired for cover walks away, you know the “peace plan” has drifted a bit from “stop the killing” toward “let’s monetise this.”

And in the Background: The Epstein Clock Still Ticking

Overlay all of this on the domestic backdrop:

• Trump just signed a law forcing the Epstein files into the light on a tight timeline.

• DOJ is scrambling through court to unseal material it previously kept sealed.

• Media, lawyers, and a lot of very nervous rich people are waiting to see who lands in those documents.

Is there public proof that any of this Ukraine/Russia “peace” theatre is directly about outrunning Epstein‑related fallout or Russian kompromat? No. If it exists, nobody’s produced the smoking gun.

But if you were Donald Trump, and you knew a storm of sleaze and old secrets was coming your way, what bigger distraction could you engineer than:

“I alone ended the war in Ukraine and opened up a new era of prosperity”?

You don’t need to believe in spy‑movie blackmail to see how convenient it is that “Make Money Not War” drops right as the Epstein transparency clock hits zero.

The Bottom Line: Ukraine Is Not a Looted Condo

said it best: Ukrainians look at Russian’s invasion like someone just took over part of their house, they’re abusing the owners of that house and Trump is rubber stamping their squatting attempts AND forcing the Ukrainian homeowners to give Russians half of their salaries.

Strip away the spin and the buzzwords:

• Trump’s plan recognises and rewards territorial conquest by force.

• It ties America’s economic future to a Russia that hasn’t paid for what it’s already done.

• It sidelines Ukraine in its own war and hands the keys to a crew of developers, donors, and oligarch‑adjacent dealmakers.

Ukraine is not a distressed luxury tower Trump can recapitalise with Russian money and rebrand as “peace.”

If “America First” means anything beyond branding, the baseline should be simple:

We don’t sell out democracies to autocrats, and we don’t turn war crimes into investment opportunities for the president’s friends.

You want peace? Great. Start by backing a plan that actually gets Russia out of Ukraine, keeps Ukraine whole, and doesn’t turn the world’s most obvious act of naked aggression into a brilliant business opportunity for the people who’ve been circling this thing like vultures since day one.

The Good News, Ukraine isn’t accepting this BS ‘peace deal’. The only peace deal Ukraine (and the EU) will advocate? The one where Russia f**** all the way back off to Moscow.

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