If you're familiar with the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, then you are familiar with the team leader's phrase, "Always be closing!"

Highly recommended viewing for anyone trying to understand Trump.

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Yesterday evening Kharkiv suffered a big drone swarm attack, which I covered extensively towards the end of Saturday's 🧵

Four were killed and 17 wounded as 3 central areas of the city were hit. Two of the injured were children and 2 people are still in hospital this lunchtime.

How could there be? The plan is so one-sided, and the Trump administration is so chaotic, that nothing of substance could possibly be decided.

In this case, it is the fiasco surrounding the Trump-Putin peace proposal and the Epstein files. My question is, when are we going to stop falling for it? Don't play his game. Instead, focus on the important things--not Trump's stupid and distracting "truths."

...and for a distraction from the Epstein files, the Ukrainian peace proposal fiasco, the rampant and blatant corruption, the destruction of the East Wing (remember that?), the dementia....

So, what will happen when the talks eventually collapse, or Putin rejects any of the changes? Two more weeks for Trump to TACO?

Meanwhile media are already publishing Ukraine's additional demands and amendments to Russia's 28-pt Dim-Wit plan.

And another update from Ternopil

Body fragments were found overnight and the death toll from Russia's massacre 4 days ago, has nudged up to 34.

Still missing are 2 men, 3 women and a child.
The impromptu memorials at the two sites are now huge.
#RussiaIsATerroristState

This happens all the time in the Trump administration. One of Trump's reps denies something leaked to the press, Trump contradicts them, and then the first person must realign their story so it remains consistent with Trump's.

No, he isn't dumb, just limited in his circle of interests. His main job is to keep alive any real estate prospects in Russia that Putin occasionally dangles in front of Trump.

And anyone involved in real estate in New York and Miami has definitely had some contacts with the Russian mafia.

Less than two months from now, the three day SMO will have lasted longer than the Soviet Union's entire involvement in the "Great Patriotic War."

Color me shocked.

Witkoff is simply Trump's factum in Russia, assigned to carry out whatever duty Trump has set out for him, and to take the fall for Trump if everything goes south.

Putin-Trunp peace plan (hopefully):

Call her anyway. Make her repeat, "On the advice of counsel, I decline to answer..." 500 times.