Complicated Geneva talks. Ukraine trusteeship plan
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
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Complicated Geneva talks. Ukraine trusteeship plan
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the negotiations that are taking place today in Geneva, |
| 0:08.0 | and Whitkoff Kushner will be there. On the Russian side, you have Medinsky, who has been the chief negotiator, |
| 0:18.2 | according to Peskov throughout the entire process, even the Abu Dhabi |
| 0:22.0 | process. But he did not show up in Abu Dhabi because the discussions were mostly focused on security |
| 0:28.7 | issues. This time around, he will be in Geneva as the lead negotiator. And on the Ukrainian side, you have Umarov, |
| 0:40.2 | I believe who will be leading the negotiations. |
| 0:43.8 | After the negotiations in Geneva, |
| 0:46.7 | at least for the US delegation, |
| 0:48.8 | they will then be negotiating on Iran. |
| 0:51.3 | So Wittkov Kushner are negotiating with the Russians and the Ukrainians, |
| 0:57.9 | and then they will be negotiating with the Iranians. Quite a busy day for Whitkoff and Kushner. |
| 1:04.5 | Anyway, what are your thoughts? Well, let's start with the last point. I mean, what you've just |
| 1:09.9 | described, once the same set of negotiators |
| 1:13.3 | conducting one high-level negotiation with a power like Russia and then running off and conducting |
| 1:21.9 | another high-level set of negotiations with a power like Iran, both on the same day, is, I mean, |
| 1:30.9 | it's borderline absurd. I mean, even if Witgolf and Kushner were the best negotiators |
| 1:38.8 | in the world, even if they were massively experienced in these sort of things, if they were respectively |
| 1:45.8 | Napoleon and Hercules. |
| 1:47.1 | I mean, it's just asking too much. |
| 1:49.5 | You can't possibly conduct effective negotiations at this kind of level on the same day with |
| 1:56.4 | two completely different parties about a major war. And apparently, the reason these discussions |
| 2:03.9 | are taking place in Geneva at all, the Ukrainians didn't want to go to Geneva, the Russians |
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