Another Bad Deal, Another Unelected Negotiator
A Prophecy of the Negotiation Table I write this as a man who is tired of watching the same pattern repeat. Jared Kushner has once again inserted himself into a negotiation with Vladimir Putin. No one voted for him. He holds no elected office that the public can remove him from. And yet he keeps showing up in rooms that decide whether nations keep bleeding or stop. Steve Witkoff is with him this time. They landed in Moscow on September 5. Putin met them. A short pause in strikes was arranged so they could travel onward to Kyiv. The headlines call it peace work. I call it another round of the same play. And I am writing what follows as a warning—a prophecy in the sense of a foretelling based upon a pattern I believe I see repeating , not as a claim that I have been given some private revelation from God. Because sometimes prophecy is nothing more complicated than looking at the road ahead and warning people about the cliff. “The pruden...
