Day 1392
Platinum security guarantees
Nothing is agreed except the pretense that it might be.
The Berlin summit’s joint statement reads like a Trump golf resort prospectus—lavish promises of security guarantees, peacetime forces of 800,000, European-led multinational battalions, and ceasefire monitoring mechanisms. It’s all very impressive until you notice nobody’s closed on the land yet.
Everyone’s pounding water in a mortar about NATO while treating territorial concessions as existential symbols rather than negotiable assets.
US officials claim “90% consensus” after eight hours of talks. Western leaders “welcome significant progress” and praise “strong convergence” while carefully noting that “some issues would need to be resolved in the final stages.” German Chancellor Merz calls America’s commitments “truly remarkable.” Translation: we’ve agreed on everything except the one thing that matters. That pesky 10% happens to include whether Ukraine surrenders the the …
