Dear NATO Leadership, Never Has Pillar Four Been More Clear
- john raymond
- 2 hours ago
- 5 min read
The Witkoff–Kushner Moscow channel has stripped away the last illusions about this war’s diplomatic landscape. What we face today is not a misguided peace effort but a textbook deployment of autocratic strategy—regime security, asymmetric warfare, and traitor-general dynamics—coordinated between President Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Only because the mask has fully slipped does Pillar Four, Operationalize, stand before NATO with crystalline clarity: this channel must not be accommodated; it must be actively neutralized.
I. Pillar One — Regime Security: Understand the Prime Directive
Pillar One is the Rosetta Stone of autocracies: regime survival comes before nation, ideology, or truth. Once you accept this, the behavior of President Trump, Putin, and their intermediaries ceases to be confusing.
Putin wants a settlement that freezes his territorial conquests in place, stabilizes his collapsing economy, legitimizes ethnic cleansing, and fractures the West. Trump wants a settlement that minimizes domestic political danger, flatters his image as a “peacemaker,” and protects him from the collapse of his patron in Moscow.
That is the joint regime-security objective. It has nothing to do with peace, human rights, or international law. It is, and always has been, the preservation of two embattled rulers whose fortunes are structurally intertwined.
The 28-point plan seeded by Russian diplomat Kirill Dmitriev and operationalized by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner reflects that alignment with perfect symmetry: Ukrainian land surrendered, NATO blocked, Russian war crimes effectively forgiven, and Western security guarantees diluted into nothing.
What NATO must see is that this is not incompetence. It is not naïve negotiation. It is not improvisation. It is regime security logic executed through intermediaries.
II. Pillar Two — Asymmetric Warfare: Recognize the Weaponized Peace Process
Pillar Two teaches us that autocrats use the appearance of diplomacy as a weapon. They lie, invert causality, flood the zone with performative “initiatives,” and lure democratic systems into debating the merits of proposals that were never designed to be implemented.
The Witkoff–Kushner channel is precisely this kind of asymmetric weapon.
Russia publicly insists there will be “no compromise on territory” even after a five-hour meeting with the two envoys. Putin frames the war as a Western attack on Russia “by proxy.”
Every day of these “talks,” Russian missiles and drones hit Ukrainian civilians. And yet the narrative pushed by Trump’s envoys is that Putin “wants peace,” that the problem is Western reluctance, that Ukraine may be the obstacle.
This is classic asymmetric inversion:
Russia invades; the West is blamed.
Ukraine defends itself; Ukraine is portrayed as blocking peace.
The aggressor sets demands; the victims are told to compromise.
A Kremlin-seeded plan is passed off as good faith “American diplomacy.”
The weapon is not the document. The weapon is the confusion it creates.
NATO’s mistake would be to treat this as a flawed peace plan rather than as what it is: a battlefield extension of Russia’s strategy, executed through compromised intermediaries.
III. Pillar Three — The Traitor-General: Identify the Internal Channel Aligned with the Enemy
Pillar Three explains the figure who works from inside your own camp to advance the aims of your adversary. This is the Traitor-General structure: someone with insider access, perceived legitimacy, and the power to shape outcomes while serving external interests.
Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner embody this role.
The leaked phone call with Yuri Ushakov is dispositive. Witkoff does not challenge Russia’s aims; he advises Russia on how to channel Trump. He does not defend Ukrainian sovereignty; he brainstorms how to manage optics. He does not act as an American negotiator; he acts as a joint facilitator for Trump and Putin.
The working model is now beyond dispute: this channel is not U.S. diplomacy with Russia. It is U.S.–Russia diplomacy with each other at the expense of Ukraine and NATO.
Europe sees it. Macron said the U.S. might “betray Ukraine on the issue of territory.” Merz said Washington is “playing games” with both Kyiv and Europe. Stubb said plainly: “We cannot leave Ukraine alone with these guys.”
When the traitor-general reveals himself, Pillar Three tells you the next step: treat the channel as hostile, not uncertain.
IV. Only Now—Because Clarity Is Total—Does Pillar Four Activate
Pillar Four, Operationalize, is the pivot from understanding to action. It does not activate when the betrayal is speculative. It activates when the betrayal is visible.
And now it is visible.
The documents. The leaks. The Moscow meeting. The post-meeting rhetoric. The European warnings. The moral frame inversion. The Russian authorship of the plan. The Ukrainian red lines being targeted.
NATO now knows what this channel is. That clarity is precisely what activates Pillar Four: the obligation not to accommodate, but to undermine such treason against the West.
V. Pillar Four — Operationalize: The Alliance Must Move Against the Channel, Not Around It
Operationalization means NATO governments must shift from treating Witkoff and Kushner as misguided amateurs to treating them as an active threat vector.
It requires three actions.
1. Strip the Channel of Legitimacy
Never again describe this as a “peace effort.” Never again allow the envoys to speak without explicit context:
Russia co-wrote the plan.
Russia refuses compromise.
Russia continues killing civilians during “talks.”
Russia is using the channel to shift blame onto the West.
Language is the first battlefield. NATO must seize it.
2. Deny Implementation Capacity
Even if Trump signs a betrayal document, it cannot take effect without Europe’s cooperation:
No frozen Russian assets may be used to fund a surrender.
No EU or NATO security architecture may be subordinated to a capitulation framework.
No reconstruction money may be tied to territorial amputation.
No U.S.–Russia “deal” may be allowed to define Ukraine’s borders or alliances.
If Europe refuses the logistical, financial, and legal pillars of the betrayal, the document collapses under its own weight.
3. Flip the Moral Frame Back Immediately and Repeatedly
Every time the traitor-general channel emerges, NATO must say the truth instantly:
Russia invaded; Ukraine defended.
A “peace” that rewards aggression is not peace.
Ukraine refusing to surrender land is not obstruction—it is compliance with the UN Charter.
Genuine peace requires Russian withdrawal, accountability, and security guarantees that deter—not enable—future aggression.
Do not let Moscow or Washington define the frame. Define it yourselves, relentlessly.
VI. Conclusion: NATO Must Treat This as a Live Betrayal—and Act Accordingly
Dear NATO leadership, the moment has arrived when clarity is no longer optional. The Witkoff–Kushner channel is not a mistake to correct, not a negotiation to refine, and not an experiment to tolerate. It is the operational arm of a coordinated Trump–Putin strategy to force Ukraine into surrender and to invert the moral frame of the war so completely that the aggressor becomes the victim and the victim becomes the obstacle.
Pillars One through Three diagnose the operation. Pillar Four tells you what to do about it.
Operationalize. Neutralize the channel. Deny it money, law, and legitimacy. Shatter the narrative inversion before it metastasizes.
Because if NATO does not act now, while clarity is total, the traitor-general will act for you—and the cost will be paid in Ukrainian sovereignty, European security, and the future architecture of the democratic world.