Under this scenario Russia would have military and economic control of occupied Ukraine under its own governing body, imitating Israel’s de facto rule of Palestinian territory seized from Jordan in 1967.

Witkoff, who is also tasked by Trump with bringing peace to the Middle East, is understood to support the idea, which the Americans believe circumvents barriers in the Ukrainian constitution to ceding territory without holding an “all-Ukraine” referendum.

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    20 hours ago

    Oof. They’re actually looking at the occupied territories as some kind of diplomatic model for how Russia can keep the land but Ukraine can still say that it is theirs in name. Who the fuck looks at Palestine as a model to follow for fucking anything?? This is truly ghoulish.