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📰 The $12 Trillion “Peace Deal”: Sanctions for Soil According to Ukrainian intelligence, Moscow has dangled up to $12 trillion in future deals to the Trump administration in exchange for sanctions relief — with at least one insider saying a package is already essentially agreed. European officials now openly worry that Donald Trump will squeeze Kyiv into major territorial concessions by June, his self‑imposed deadline for “peace,” to unlock that jackpot. For the Kremlin, it’s simple: turn the end of the war into the world’s biggest re‑opening party — energy, commodities, reconstruction, finance — and sell it as a $12 trillion bonanza for American business. For Washington’s deal‑makers, the pitch is brutally elegant: end the war fast, declare a historic breakthrough, and let Wall Street handle the rest. Whether Ukraine’s borders survive intact becomes a negotiable detail, dressed up as “realism.” Kyiv, of course, has every incentive to blow this up in public. For them, these side‑channel talks look like classic great‑power horse‑trading, with Ukraine as the chip, not the player. That doesn’t mean the numbers are fake — it just means everyone is playing their own PR game: Zelensky raises the alarm about a sell‑out, Moscow inflates the prize, Trump world sells “peace” as a business opportunity. A massive US–Russia economic thaw could, on paper, be hugely profitable for both countries — pipelines, mining, capital markets, sanctions gone, “stability” restored. But when peace is priced at $12 trillion, you have to ask: whose security, whose land, whose dead are being converted into that number? And who gets to sign the contract on their behalf? #Ukraine#Russia#Trump#sanctions#war#oligarchy 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸