Operation Foreclosure: Russia Sets the Borders, US Takes the Mines, EU Pays the Welfare

The Abu Dhabi track ended without a peace treaty — and that was the point. The talks wrapped up like a bankruptcy hearing: no joint statements, no celebratory press conference, just controlled silence. Behind closed doors, the emerging outline is a receivership plan valued at roughly $500 billion #Russia sets the map on the ground, the #US locks in the extractive upside, the #EU absorbs the social bill, and #Ukraine is pushed to trade sovereignty for solvency.

In the corridors, insiders described a setup that looked like a creditors’ committee sizing up a distressed asset. But the clearest signal came from Moscow’s choice of envoy. Russia’s negotiating group was led not by a career Foreign Ministry diplomat and not by a civilian political operator, but by Admiral Igor Kostyukov, the head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff — Russia’s military intelligence chief (#GRU).

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