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Kushner Floats NATO-Russia Council Revival

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Ukraine peace talks are set to open in Abu Dhabi, with Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner pushing a broader European security framework involving Russia. Kushner is using the NATO-Russia Council as a model, with five stated goals: permanent consultations, crisis communications, military transparency, reciprocal de-escalation steps, and a long-term framework. The White House says NATO would remain central to European collective defense.

The Trump administration wants a wide-ranging deal that goes beyond Ukraine, while Europe wants the Ukraine ceasefire track settled first before any broader security architecture is negotiated. Russian officials have responded enthusiastically, and Moscow wants NATO's posture rolled back to before 1997. European capitals worry they are being sidelined and that negotiating security architecture during an active war emboldens Russia.

The Washington Post reports Jared Kushner is considering the NATO-Russia Council as a model for post-war European security talks, while European officials insist a Ukraine ceasefire must come first.

Reporting matches: Kushner wants to revive the NATO-Russia Council format and is calling for broader Russia-Europe multilateral talks on postwar security.

Kushner is looking to the NATO-Russia Council as a model, and he wants the Moscow security talks to run alongside Ukraine ceasefire negotiations. NATO suspended practical cooperation with Russia in 2014; the council last met in January 2022.

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The Washington Post reports Jared Kushner is considering the NATO-Russia Council as a model for post-war European security talks, while European officials insist a Ukraine ceasefire must come first.

U.S. special envoy Kushner sees the NATO-Russia Council as a model for Europe’s postwar security, while European officials insist a ceasefire in Ukraine must come first - The Washington Post ▪️ In his column for The Washington Post, David Ignatius notes that Jared Kushner, who ht

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Reporting matches: Kushner wants to revive the NATO-Russia Council format and is calling for broader Russia-Europe multilateral talks on postwar security.

❗️According to The Washington Post (David Ignatius’s column, citing a U.S. official), Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner wants to revive the NATO-Russia Council model for post-war security in Europe. He is calling for broader multilateral talks between Russia and Europe on https://

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Kushner is looking to the NATO-Russia Council as a model, and he wants the Moscow security talks to run alongside Ukraine ceasefire negotiations. NATO suspended practical cooperation with Russia in 2014; the council last met in January 2022.

Jared Kushner wants to revive the NATO-Russia Council model for Europe’s postwar security, The Washington Post reports. The forum was suspended after Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea in 2014. He wants talks with Moscow to run alongside ceasefire negotiations in Ukraine.

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BJared Kushner wants to revive the NATO-Russia Council for after the war.
BThe NATO-Russia Council? The forum NATO suspended after Crimea?
BAnton Gerashchenko posted the Washington Post column on X. David Ignatius has the story.
BSo we're giving Russia a seat at the table before a ceasefire.
BThat's exactly what European officials are fighting. They want the Ukraine ceasefire settled first.
BNo, no—why would we negotiate Europe's security with the country that invaded?
BThat's the split. Trump's team thinks a bigger deal can end the war.
BKushner's plan includes a range of goals, from crisis communications to de-escalation steps.
BSounds reasonable in a vacuum.
BBut we're not in a vacuum! Russia started a land war in Europe.
BAnd Moscow says it wants NATO pushed back to earlier, pre-expansion lines.
BRight—that's the giveaway. This isn't stability, it's about turning the clock back.
BDavid Ignatius calls Trump's pitch 'wildly premature.'
BI agree with Ignatius for once. Europe shouldn't negotiate under gunfire.
BBut wasn't the old NATO-Russia Council designed exactly for this—talking to avoid miscalculation?
BIt didn't stop 2014. It didn't stop 2022. Russia uses talks as cover.
BFair. NATO suspended practical cooperation after Crimea.
BAnd the council hasn't met in years, going quiet before the full invasion.
BSo reviving it now looks like a reward.
BNo—it looks like handing Putin a veto over Europe's security.
BKaja Kallas put it bluntly: 'Putin does not have a veto over European security.'
BShe's right. Europe has NATO. It has the EU. It doesn't need a new architecture.
BBut if the US is doing the negotiating, Europe better show up, not just complain.
BOh, come on—European officials have said peace first, architecture later. That's not complaining.
BThen what's the EU's plan to actually stop the war?
BKeep arming Ukraine and stop pretending Russia wants a stable Europe.
BThat's a strategy for bleeding, not ending.
BAnd a NATO-Russia Council is a strategy for freezing the conflict in Russia's favor.
BMaybe the truth is the administration wants a deal before the midterms.
BDoesn't matter why. It matters what it gives up.
BWhite House insists NATO stays central to collective defense.
BThen why float a parallel forum at all?
BBecause eventually you negotiate with people you don't like.
BAfter a ceasefire. Not before.
BOne top reply says it's like trying to get a peace deal with Germany in 1942.
BHarsh. Also not far off.
BAnd that's the problem—this is a Trump team trial balloon, no formal proposal yet.
BThen Europe should kill it now before it grows legs.
BI'm not as sure. Talking doesn't equal trusting.
BTalking to Moscow while it's shelling Ukraine? That's not diplomacy, that's theater.
BYou know who supports it? Russian officials, enthusiastically.
BWhich should tell you everything.
BMaybe. But the US is also sending Witkoff to Abu Dhabi for the Ukraine talks.
BGood. Keep Ukraine and Europe architecture as two tracks—don't blur them.
BExcept Kushner wants them running alongside each other. That's the whole argument.
BThen he's wrong. Europe's security can't be a sidecar to a ceasefire.
BI'll give you this: Europe has reason to worry about being sidelined.
BThat's all I'm saying.
BBut if the alternative is no talks at all, I'd rather have a channel.
BA channel yes. A revived NATO-Russia Council? No.
BWe'll see if Abu Dhabi changes that.
BSeparately, a Ukrainian military news account on X claims a massive Russian assault hit energy infrastructure.
BThe account says more than seventy cruise missiles.
BIt adds that Zelensky condemned the attack. Still unverified.
BIf it holds up, that's a serious escalation against the power grid.
BWe'll wait for official word before going further.

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