In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

In the second half of 2025, and continuing into February of this year, Trump sponsored a major effort to settle the Ukrane war : Since mid-November 2025, there has been a renewed diplomatic push to secure a peace agreement in Ukraine. Fresh rounds of talks were prompted by reports that US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart, Kirill Dmitriev, had been working on a 28-point peace plan. . . . Many of the proposals outlined in the plan are not new. They prompted concern among Ukraine and its European allies that the plan was overly favourable to Russia and that it reiterated Russia’s maximalist demands for resolving the conflict, including the ceding of territory. Following talks in Geneva between the US, Ukraine and European allies on 23 and 24 November 2025, a new deal was reported to be on the table. Details of that revised plan have not been made public, but it is thought to be based on European counterproposals that limit Russian gains. . . . Three rou...