2025-12-06
21 分钟Back in October, at a beautiful waterfront home in Florida,
three men quietly came together to try and end a war.
It's three businessmen in a Miami Beach condo, hunched over a laptop,
redrawing European borders, effectively trying to solve a geopolitical problem.
The key protagonists were Kiro Dmitriev, the head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund.
as well as Jared Kushner, the president's southern law, and Steve Witkoff,
a real estate tycoon that the president has known since the 80s,
who is now Washington's emissary to Moscow effectively.
These men were trying to draft a plan to end the long and deadly conflict between Russia and Ukraine,
a plan that would become the basis of lengthy peace talks that took place this week.
But our colleague Drew Hinshaw says, when these businessmen met in Miami,
peace wasn't the only thing they were negotiating.
That's according to people familiar with the talks.
They're not only drafting a peace plan that in their mind is a way to end the war in Ukraine on terms Russia can accept.
They're also looking at how do we bring in Russia's $2 trillion economy in from the cold,
lowering down sanctions as part of a peace process.
This is...
highly unorthodox and highly controversial.
That's our colleague Joe Parkinson, who reports with Drew.
Fusing this idea that business should not be something which follows a peace deal,