In short time since his inauguration, Trump has already enacted more sensible decisions than Biden, Blinken, Nuland, or Sullivan combined during four years of their activity. For example, he denounced the Bidenist dysfunctional policy of denying Russia official talks on the governmental level. Thanks to War by Woodward, we know that such a pharisaical premise didn’t in any way preclude talks behind the curtain, especially in earlier times of internal strife in Russia (to wit, Prigogin’s mutiny), when Putin’s power could be seriously shaken, had the AFU been set free. But they hadn’t been.

Not for nothing Zelensky’s infamous éminence grise aide, Yermak, has been lying low for quite a while. There are quite a few double agents in Kiev.