December 20, 2025
Putin Proclaims “God Will Never Leave Russia” As “Last Hope” Miami Talks Begin
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
An insightful new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin proclaimed during his nearly five hour press conference yesterday: “God will never leave Russia”, says leftist NBC News then reported: “Russian President Vladimir Putin took questions for 4 1/2 hours on everything from his war in Ukraine to local infrastructure and aliens at his annual year-end news conference…Putin told NBC News’ Keir Simmons that the ball was in Ukraine and the West’s court in peace talks, showing no sign of any new compromise on the Kremlin’s hardline terms to end the war”.
At the exact same time President Putin was giving his annual press conference yesterday, this report notes, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared during his annual press conference: “It’s not our war…It’s a war on another continent…We can’t force Ukraine to make a deal…We can’t force Russia to make a deal…They have to want to make a deal”, then he told reporters: “There’s a reason why this war hasn’t ended, and that is because there’s complex factors at play…Wars end generally in one of two ways – surrender by one side or another, or a negotiated settlement…We don’t see surrender anytime in the near future by either side, and so only a negotiated settlement gives us the opportunity to end this war…There is no peace deal unless Ukraine agrees to it, but there’s also no peace deal unless Russia agrees to it…I hope it can get done this month before the end of the year…I want it to end as soon as possible…I may be there in Miami tomorrow for a portion of the talks”.
In the “Last Hope” talks underway in Miami that Secretary of State Rubio may attend today, this report continues, the Ukrainian delegation, led by Rustem Umerov, secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, began negotiating yesterday—it was just reported: “The national security advisers of Germany, France, and the UK will be in Miami today for talks with White House Envoy Steve Witkoff and Ukrainian national security adviser Rustem Umerov”—and it was also revealed: “President Donald Trump told reporters that he would visit Florida soon, making the announcement in the run-up to the next round of talks on Ukraine in Miami”.
Leading the “Last Hope” talks in Miami, this report details, are White House envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, both of whom are multi-billionaire private businessmen, not government employees or diplomats—representing Russia will be President Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who is also not a diplomat, and heads the multi-billion-dollar Russian Sovereign Wealth Fund, that eagerly looks forward to investing in American companies—and the Wall Street Journal observed today:
Witkoff and Dmitriev, two businessmen with strong personal connections to their respective presidents, are sketching a new economic and security order for Europe.
Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, has pitched in to help negotiate where Russia’s borders will end, the shape of Ukraine’s army and how quickly Trump could tear down the new Iron Curtain of sanctions blockading Russia’s troubled economy.
It is hard to pinpoint a moment in history when businessmen have held such direct sway over matters of war and peace.
Since the end of World War II, Washington’s relationship with Moscow was its most carefully calibrated, helmed by spy agencies who knew their rival intimately. Seasoned diplomats rehearsed rigid protocols to prevent misunderstandings between two nuclear powers poised like scorpions in a jar.
Today, those structures are virtually absent.
America has had no ambassador in Moscow since June. There is no assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a small group of staffers to support Witkoff, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff’s foreign meetings.
Longtime allies in Europe also feel left in the dark, and worry that Washington no longer has their back.
As it pertains to the so-called “troubled economy” comically claimed by the Wall Street Journal, this report notes, Russia has a paltry national debt of only $392 billion, while the United States has a beyond staggering over $38 trillion in national debt—and more than balancing the paltry national debt of Russia is was just reported: “Russia’s international reserves stood at $741 billion as of 12 December 2025” and revealed: “Russia’s gold reserves have reached an all-time high, valued at $310 billion”.
Along with economic articles now appearing like “A Russian-US ‘New Détente’ Could Revolutionize The Global Economic Architecture”, this report concludes, it was also just assessed: “Russia could provide the US with reliable access to the critical resource supply chains that might be established on its territory, which the US requires for “outcompeting” or at least keeping pace with China, in exchange for the US reforming the European security architecture in partnership with Russia…Western critics might scoff that the US would just be replacing dependence on China with Russia, while non-Western ones might worry that Russia risks embondaging itself to the US, but that’s over-simplistic…Both scenarios are possible in theory, but much more plausible is the one that the creation of complex strategic interdependence between them through these means resolves the long-running Russian-US security dilemma that’s at the core of the Ukrainian Conflict”.
[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]
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