{"id":21430,"date":"2025-11-24T18:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=21430"},"modified":"2025-11-25T13:48:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T12:48:52","slug":"und-so-einer-verhandelt-mit-russland-die-frage-die-niemand-stellen-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/und-so-einer-verhandelt-mit-russland-die-frage-die-niemand-stellen-will\/","title":{"rendered":"And someone like this is negotiating with Russia? - the question no one dares to ask"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Steve Witkoff said on the Tucker Carlson show on March 21, 2025, that he had liked Putin, that Putin had been open with him and that he did not consider him a bad person, many heard only an awkward moment. They saw a businessman and special envoy who had spent too long in the orbit of a president who confuses proximity with strength. But today that sentence stands at the center of politics. Because this is the man who now sits at the table in Geneva when the future of Ukraine is being negotiated. He is part of the US delegation rewriting a plan that has left Europe and Ukraine stunned for days. The question that forces itself into view is as simple as it is bitter: how can someone mediate who openly expresses sympathy for the aggressor in an ongoing war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n