In what should have come as no surprise to anyone – except possibly the Trump Administration – Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected Washington’s latest “peace deal” presented to him in Moscow by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Not only did he reject the deal, he launched a massive drone attack on Ukraine hours after the two departed back to Washington – foregoing a planned follow-up meeting with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, likely at the request of Putin’s top foreign