Steve Witkoff: Exporting Incompetence Worldwide

Oh, my…Lord!

Appoint incompetence, and you will become the incompetence.

Trump must be feeling humiliated. He has likely walked straight into one of the worst, most chaotic diplomatic messes in modern history. How he plans to walk out of it — I have no idea. And he has no one to blame but himself. He should never have appointed Pete Hegseth and Elbridge Colby to the Pentagon, but he did — and paid the price in early July. He should never have sent Steve Witkoff as his point man to the Kremlin, but he did — and now the cost of those appointments has come due.

The Institute for the Study of War counted four different offers for a single ceasefire — that’s how many conflicting variants the Trump administration managed to produce.

I read the ISW report, and by the time I reached the last sentence, I honestly didn’t know whether to roll on the floor laughing or sit still and cry. What a madness. I have never seen stupidity on this scale. And trust me — I’ve seen a lot. But this one? This one is going to be hard to match.

German outlet BILD reported on August 9 that US Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff misunderstood Putin’s demand for Ukraine to withdraw from the remainder of Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts, in addition to the remainder of Donetsk…