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Mediated by Team Trump, face-to-face trilateral negotiations involving Russia, Ukraine, and the U.S. are scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi on 10-11 November 2026. The Russian goal since December 2021, “European security architecture based on cooperation not confrontation.” Led by Foreign Policy Chief, Kaja Kallas, the Europeans are traveling to Abu Dhabi to block a peace agreement. Asserting “Russia has already lost the war,” the European goal is to keep the war going - somehow exhaust Russia - believing this will lead to regime change in Moscow. Created as a trade organization, the EU is morphing into a security organization focused on a conflict with Russia. Europeans do not understand what everyone should know: Russia will not be defeated, and Ukraine’s NATO membership is not on the table. At the NATO summit in 2008, George W. Bush declared Ukraine is on an “immediate path to NATO.” Bill Burns, ambassador to Russia, sent a memo to Condoleezza Rice. “Across the board,” he wrote, the Russian political class told him, “Ukraine is the reddest of red lines” – “Nyet means nyet.” As Stephen Kinzer points out in his book, “Boiling Point,” after 2008, “No one in the Kremlin could avoid recognizing that Russia’s ultimate security nightmare - Ukrainian membership in a hostile military alliance - was beginning to become real.” In Abu Dhabi, Russia negotiators will repeat Putin’s conditions for a broad, sustainable permanent peace: No temporary ceasefire, no European peacekeepers, no NATO in #Ukraine - and recognition of Crimea and Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson as permanent Russian territory.