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This is not a peace plan

Richard Branson

Published on 21 November 2025

"I am in utter disbelief at the 28-point American peace plan for Ukraine that has been circulating in the news media. Unless it turns out to be an elaborate hoax or a sinister Russian disinformation plot, it marks the lowest point yet in US diplomacy on Ukraine.

For starters, this is not really a peace plan at all, but articles of surrender, legitimising Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine and the illegal annexation of its territory while brazenly dividing the spoils of war.

There is too much in this shameful document to discuss in detail here. The main takeaways are these:

Time and again, it implies that Ukraine and Russia are equally culpable for a brutal war Putin started.

It creates no mechanism for accountability and justice, even granting general amnesty for Russia’s countless and horrific war crimes.

It forces Ukraine to relinquish control over vast swaths of its sovereign territory in exchange for vague (and potentially costly) security guarantees.

It robs the Ukrainian people of the agency to freely choose alliances such as NATO or to determine the size of their armed forces.

And it creates plenty of opportunities for the US to cash in on whatever reconstruction arrangements will be put in place.

It’s a deal, alright - a great deal for Russia. Putin’s negotiators must have walked away from those consultations with a sense of total victory: all their central demands were met, with complete impunity for the horrors they unleashed on the brave Ukrainian people.

President Zelensky and his European allies should reject this plan and develop a realistic, fair, and feasible proposal of their own, with conditions that are acceptable to Ukraine and respect international law. This is a bamboozle of epic proportions.

As if the terms of this plan weren’t already terrifying enough, the document also marks a remarkable retreat of US leadership, signalling to Putin’s Russia and other authoritarian regimes that violent aggression is perfectly acceptable and, I suspect, even respectable to the US government.

Millefleur, Jan Hutchison

went thrifting for transformers yesterday and found:

cybertruck hot wheels

terrible captain america doll

grimlock (robots in disguise 2015) mcdonald's toy that i genuinely might go back for

branson magnet that i also might go back foe (friends have a dog with a vaguely similar name who vaguely looks like a doberman so it'd be funny)

hot wheels??? lamps??????

hot wheels car that reminds me of a transformer

there were a baffling amount of hot wheels and matchbox cars here. like truly unbelievable. definitely gonna have to go back to this place and give them all a closer look.

I don’t think this is even an issue that would scratch Kate’s itchy nose.

The photos and events were in 2006, way before she ever married in. It’s been 20 years and by all accounts, Kate hasn’t been connected to Branson since then. She’ll be ok.

If anyone should worry about being linked to Branson after hearing about the Epstein allegations, it’ll be Harry because he and Branson shared a ton of headlines last fall when they both signed the warning letter about AI and Google says they have a close friendship. (Whether that’s true or not, IDK but it is mentioned when you look the two men up online.)