What do Trump-world figures like Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have in common with some of the most infamous American spies in history?
No, they haven’t been charged as covert agents. But as national security experts point out, the effect of what they’re doing for Vladimir Putin could be just as dangerous.
For three decades, Putin has been playing a long, patient game against the United States. He didn’t just rebuild Russia’s military; he infiltrated America’s political bloodstream — first through the NRA, then through white evangelical networks, then deeper into the Republican Party itself.
Now we’re watching the payoff.
Look at a recent example: Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna posting Kremlin-flavored propaganda claiming the U.S. is “bankrolling the persecution of Christians in Ukraine.” The truth? Russia has been destroying churches and religious sites across Ukraine by the hundreds, forcing pastors and congregations into bunkers just to survive missile strikes and drone attacks.
The persecution is real — and it’s coming from Moscow, not Kyiv.
Yet this is the moment when Donald Trump and his inner circle are floating “peace plans” that sound like they were drafted in the Kremlin basement.
According to Senator Chris Murphy, what’s being sold as a “peace plan” to end the war in Ukraine is nothing of the sort. It’s a business deal — a blueprint to make Trump-aligned billionaires rich while Ukraine is carved up and handed over to Putin.
Here’s how it works:
- Putin doesn’t send his foreign minister — he sends the head of his sovereign wealth fund, his “deals guy,” to meet with Trump ally Steve Witkoff in Miami.
- Witkoff, a Trump donor and confidant, reportedly talks terms for “ending” the war while U.S. oil giants and billionaire investors angle for stakes in Russian gas projects that only become profitable if sanctions vanish and Putin walks away clean.
- The so-called “peace” would force Ukraine to give Russia territory it doesn’t even currently control and grant amnesty for war crimes — no real security guarantees, no justice, no accountability.
Ukraine gets nothing. Billionaires get everything. Putin gets victory without having to win on the battlefield.
Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson doesn’t mince words. He compares Witkoff’s role to some of the most infamous traitors of the last century, saying he is “as dangerous to the security and safety of the world as any traitor who has betrayed this country before.” His reason? Witkoff isn’t just negotiating — he’s coaching the Russians on how to manipulate an American president.
One leaked call, reported by European press, allegedly shows Witkoff advising a Putin aide to call Trump a “man of peace” before a key meeting. Not to secure peace — but to stroke Trump’s ego and make him easier to steer.
This isn’t diplomacy. This is an American emissary teaching a hostile regime how to push the right buttons in a man who once controlled the U.S. nuclear codes.
And Trump’s own words give the game away. In a recent interview, he shrugged that Russia has the “upper hand,” is “much bigger” and “much stronger,” and implied that “size will win” in Ukraine. That’s not how an American leader talks about an ally fighting for survival. That’s how someone talks when they’ve already mentally surrendered.
Under Biden and a united NATO, Putin was on his back foot — troops retreating, sanctions biting, Russia’s economy staggering. Then Trump and his MAGA loyalists re-entered the stage, choking aid to Ukraine, echoing Russian propaganda, and promoting “peace plans” that amount to Ukraine’s surrender and Europe’s destabilization.
Former NATO commander Admiral James Stavridis summed it up with a brutal visual: Trump being dog-walked by Putin. The message is clear — the United States is voluntarily giving up diplomatic, moral, and even superpower leverage, and handing it to weaker, failing autocracies in Moscow and Riyadh.
But there is resistance.
The European Union is moving to freeze and repurpose Russian central bank assets to fund Ukraine’s defense and rebuild its shattered infrastructure, even designing legal workarounds to bypass pro-Putin veto players like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. In Washington, a nearly $1 trillion defense bill — bloated and deeply flawed — still contains crucial guardrails to keep future pro-Kremlin presidents from quietly cutting off weapons to Kyiv.
Because Europe understands something too many American MAGA politicians refuse to admit:
If Ukraine falls, the entire democratic world order begins to crack.
So while Trump and his oligarch friends chase gas fields, pipelines, and rare earth minerals, they’re not just selling out one embattled ally.
They’re auctioning off America’s credibility, security, and future — piece by piece — to a dictator who’s been dreaming of this moment for 30 years.
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