US foreign policy machinery is collapsing in front of our eyes

From the Obozrevatel:

"The US Foreign Policy Machinery Is Disintegrating Before Our Eyes

Alexander Levi-Ganapolsky, December 3, 2025

The point of this photograph isn't whether Kushner and Witkoff sold out Ukraine in some back room, but rather that it shows how the American foreign policy machinery is crumbling before our eyes. Two unelected envoys with no formal mandate, no proper oversight, and no obligation to leave any kind of paper trail sit opposite the Chinese Foreign Minister, while Europeans, who will then have to live with the consequences, are not even allowed into the room. The image itself is the argument: Europe's future is being sketched out by people whose only real "qualification" is their closeness to Donald Trump and whose presence suits Moscow and Beijing perfectly.

So it turns out that a superpower is entering the largest European war since 1945 with a "peace plan" cobbled together by relatives and courtiers, rather than any coherent understanding of US national interests. The Kremlin doesn't need to "infiltrate" Washington when Washington itself outsources the most sensitive diplomacy to freelancers who can be thrust into the ceremonial hall at any moment precisely because they have no institutions, no interdepartmental machinery, and no legal obligation to consult with allies. The absence of bureaucracy, friction, and coordination here is not a drawback, but a major advantage... When Wang Yi smiles in this photo, he's not celebrating a clever move, but rather a simple reality: there's no longer a fixed American position, only a rotating troupe of eunuchs, each with their own channel to the master, and each individually available for "processing" by the foreign capital.

The contrast only deepens when you look at competence. Moscow is leading its part through a rigid vertical, staffed by people who have been calculating exactly this scenario for decades. Washington is improvising on the fly through developers and political strategists who perceive a five-hour meeting with Putin as a slightly larger real estate deal through escrow. Europeans are watching all this live and drawing the only sensible conclusion: if the US is going to outsource their future to people who treat the Kremlin like a common development commission, Europe will have to urgently build its own deterrent. I'd like to believe they understand this.

So the danger isn't that Kushner or Witkoff secretly dream of a "Greater Eurasia." The danger is that the world's most powerful country is beginning to conduct its grand strategy the same way a family office handles a hotel deal: informally, opaquely, with personal loyalty as the only guarantee of quality. When this Kremlin photo is revisited in ten years, it will be read not as "the moment America betrayed Ukraine," but as the moment it became clear: the American century ended in a room where no one present was truly accountable to American voters."