attention was deliberately drawn away from the Epstein files, the accelerating crisis in Minnesota and Venezuela, and — most critically — the weakening of Ukraine at the exact moment it needs unity and resolve the most.

This distraction worked.

Behind the scenes, Dmitriyev was meeting with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner — individuals who have long blurred the line between diplomacy, business, and private power.

conversations were taking place not about peace, but about realignment — energy partnerships, post-war “reconstruction,” pipelines, and leverage.

And as all of this unfolded, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was summoned.

That word matters. He was not casually invited. He was called in at a moment when the narrative had already been shifted against him.

(Zelensky) warned that too many leaders keep waiting for President Trump to “change,” to soften, to suddenly become someone else once the moment demands responsibility. But Trump is exactly who he shows you he is. He is not evolving. He is not recalibrating. He is not preparing to put values over leverage. Zelensky’s message wasn’t emotional — it was sober and urgent.

Zelensky also spoke about the pressure placed on him behind the scenes — the quiet warnings to not provoke America, to avoid asking for the missiles and defenses Ukraine needs to respond to Russian aggression, to stay “reasonable” while his country is being destroyed. He laid bare the absurdity of that demand: Ukraine is told to restrain itself while Russia escalates without consequence. And then came his blunt warning to Europe — this war does not stop at Ukraine’s borders.

History has already shown how this ends. Ignoring it now would not be caution — it would be surrender.

History has already shown how this ends. Ignoring it now would not be caution — it would be surrender.

Saudi power brokers like MBS, Putin’s inner circle, Trump and his envoys — this is a network that understands distraction, pressure, and fatigue. They rely on the world looking away at the wrong moment. They rely on confusion. They rely on people believing that these events are disconnected.

They are not.