U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

This new report today with my NYT colleague Anton Troianovski follows up on our earlier reporting this month on the Lukoil deal that would bring financial benefits to business partners of the Witkoff and Trump families. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

»Trump-administrationens samtaler med Rusland om at afslutte krigen i Ukraine er blevet udvidet til at omfatte en olieaftale på flere milliarder dollars, der vil gavne mellemøstlige erhvervsledere med bånd til de to vigtigste amerikanske forhandlere, Steve Witkoff og Jared Kushner.« 🎁

U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

How delicately put: “the pending deal represents a striking intermingling of personal business ties with geopolitics, even for an administration that has regularly dismissed concerns about potential conflicts of interest.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

This just pushed me over the top from skeptic to full-blown cynic. I don't understand why Americans refuse to use those sections of their Constitution that enable the removal of a treasonous, mentally incapable president engaged in dealing with the enemy. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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We should be talking about how the “peace deal” they are trying to get Ukraine to sign under duress somehow involves Trump related companies getting to buy up Russian oil assets worth billions for pennies on the dollar. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...