From Trump’s nuclear submarine show to Witkoff’s secret dealings with Putin — the inside story of how Alaska became the stage for a plan to carve up Ukraine.
Today was Donald Trump’s deadline for Vladimir Putin.
But let’s be clear — this “deadline” wasn’t about saving Ukraine. It was never about stopping the bombs. As I told you yesterday, it was about leverage — a manufactured pressure point meant to push India and China in Trump’s tariff games.
And yesterday you saw the results — not an effort to punish Russia or stop its war machine, but Trump slapping 25% tariffs on India. These were billed as secondary tariffs that were supposed to target Moscow’s ability to wage war. Instead, they hit New Delhi while, behind the scenes, preparations were being made for a meeting in Alaska between Trump and Putin. This wasn’t strategy for peace — it was maneuvering for a deal.
Then today, as the so-called deadline came and went… Putin answered with a show of force.
The Night Ukraine Was Hit From Every Direction
At 8:30 p.m. on August 7, the assault began.
From Shatalovo, Kursk, Bryansk, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia — and from occupied Chauda in Crimea — Russia launched 108 aerial attacks on Ukraine:
104 Shahed-type kamikaze drones
4 high-speed, jet-powered UAVs
Multiple decoy drones
Ukraine’s defenders — the Air Force, air defense missile units, mobile fire groups, electronic warfare, and UAV units — fought back. As of 8 a.m. this morning, 82 enemy drones were destroyed or suppressed.
But 26 drones hit their targets in ten locations, with debris raining down in eight more.
This is what Trump is allowing — no, enabling — to happen. This is what delay looks like. And that delay is not random. It’s calculated.
According to my sources, this was all theatrics choreographed and set in motion by Vladimir Putin himself. With Russia’s economy breaking under pressure, Putin needed a way out that still kept all the territories he’s seized in the meantime.
My sources say Putin personally put together the deal, handed it to Witkoff, had Witkoff deliver it to Trump, and then had Trump send Witkoff to Ukraine — making it appear as if the deal was Trump’s own idea.
And here are some key points of that proposal:
A temporary truce — not peace — freezing the front lines where they are now.
Postponing the status of occupied territories for 49 to 99 years, leaving them under Russian control for decades.
Gradual lifting of U.S. sanctions against Russia — the linchpin that makes the rest of the deal possible.
Resumption of Russian energy imports to Europe over time — Nord Stream 1 & 2 suddenly back in the conversation.
No commitments to halt NATO expansion — wasn’t this the whole reason why Putin went to war in the first place?
No promises to stop military aid to Ukraine — because Trump has already shifted that burden onto Europe.
My sources tell me this entire sequence — from Trump and Medvedev’s WWIII scare theatrics, to the “urgent” deadline, to a sudden meeting with Putin on U.S. soil in Alaska — was choreographed.
In diplomacy, there’s an old saying: if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. With Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska and Zelensky nowhere in sight, Ukraine is the main course.
The goal? Corner Ukraine into a deal by letting Russia seize as much land as possible before talks. And that land isn’t just territory — it’s mineral-rich ground. Oil. Gas. Rare earth elements. Future leverage. This is about controlling the next century of energy and wealth.
If the EU helps broker such a ceasefire deal now, how could they later oppose Nord Stream’s reactivation? That’s the trap.
Even Rubio seemed out of the loop, telling reporters “we have to study and see.” Meanwhile, Trump was all smiles, saying “everything is moving fast” and Minutes later, Russian officials echoed his words. That’s not coincidence — that’s a direct Trump-Putin channel in action.
If this deal is real, Russia will get rewarded for their aggression and it will cement decades-long occupation and Economic Realignment: Reopening Russian energy flow, shifting the balance of global power.
It will be the most controversial peace overture yet — and it will put the Western alliance at a crossroads between ending the war at any cost and upholding the principles that bound them together.
Trump doesn’t want you to know this. They’re counting on backroom deals, manufactured deadlines, and a media distracted by circus headlines.
Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers.
In 1998 I co-wrote Millennium Countdown (US)/ A Business Guide to the Year 2000 (UK) see https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780749427917
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