The view from the top
The Arctic Cat is out of the cellophane bag
According to the BBC (before you ask, it’s the British not the Borowitz Broadcasting Corporation, I checked) in an interview with pro-Trump journalist Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump's special envoy on Ukraine, Steve Witkoff, said he liked Vladimir Putin, spouted all the Russian talking points and,
He also gave details of how Trump wanted to co-operate with Russia after relations had been normalised. "Who doesn't want to have a world where Russia and the US are doing collaboratively good things together, thinking about how to integrate their energy polices in the Arctic, share sea lines maybe, send LNG gas into Europe together, maybe collaborate on AI together?" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62zm4eqvp7o
There in a nutshell is the 21st Century’s Great Game.
For those of you not old enough to remember, here’s Google’s AI Overview:
The Great Game is the term for refers to the 19th-century geopolitical rivalry between the British and Russian Empires for influence and control in Central Asia, primarily in areas like Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet.”
But this time, instead of imperial rivalry, they’re planning to do “collaboratively good things”. Let the golden age begin.
Only a few “false countries” stand in the way.