Steve Witkoff’s real estate developer with no diplomatic experience and now, extraordinarily, special envoy to the Middle East and de facto envoy to Vladimir Putin, is off to Moscow with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner (of ‘Gaza Riviera’ renown) to carve out a Ukraine peace deal – without Ukraine
Kyiv’s allies fear Putin will dangle deals across the negotiating table as allegations of a “pay to play” system which benefits those who do business with the president’s family.
Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser, argues that the Trumps’ approach amounts to “nothing more than an old-fashioned grift tethered to a superpower”.
The 28-point peace plan negotiated by Witkoff and Kushner in October seemed remarkably generous to American corporate interests. The deal called for $100 billion of frozen Russian assets to be invested in the reconstruction of Ukraine, but with the US creaming off 50 per cent of the profits. The remainder of the confiscated Russian money would be ploughed into a joint US-Russian investment fund with few known details about its purpose. “We know this is not about peace. It’s about business,” Donald Tusk, the president of Poland, said.
Marco Rubio has pulled back on some of the original plan. But the Witkoff/Kushner negotiating duo is still in place.
Steven Witkoff, March 15, 1957, New York, is a Sun, Mercury, Venus in Pisces in an overly confident opposition Jupiter in Virgo with an unpleasant, hard-driving Mars in Taurus conjunct Algol square Pluto. That square will be rattled this month by tr Uranus hard aspects and again in the spring of 2026 so something will go up in the air; plus an undermining tr Saturn opposition his Jupiter in the second half of January 2026. Tr Pluto square his Neptune won’t improve his tattered nerves through this month till January followed by a turbulent tr Pluto opposition his Uranus on and off all 2026.
His relationship with Trump hits that odd dip come June 2026 when tr Neptune gets to 4 degrees Aries, which will make for a mood of high uncertainty between them.
Jared Kushner, 10 January 1981, an ambitious, controlling Sun Capricorn square Pluto, with Saturn Jupiter conjunct in Libra (fly high and then crash?) trine Mars in Aquarius conjunct the South Node. There’s no verified time for him but he does have Solar Arc Neptune conjunct his Mars and SA Mars square his Neptune at the moment, neither of which look anything but panicky and unsuccessful.
His relationship chart with Trump has that odd fated yod of Mars Neptune sextile Pluto inconjunct Mercury, tying them together irrevocably for good or for ill. Their association will be rattled by tr Uranus square the composite Saturn from May 2026 onwards, though 2027 looks like their nadir.
Re: the observation that Jupiter/Saturn can lead to fly high and crash: I’ve always heard that the planet comes first tells the tale. For the fall to happen, Saturn usually follows Jupiter. Alas, Kushner’s Saturn comes before Jupiter, so expansion wins. However, the picture is complicated by Pluto, the last planet in Kushner’s Libra stellium. Obviously, the Jupiter/Pluto combo leads to great wealth. But Pluto is the destroyer, so the story is still being written.
Thanks for looking at them, Marjorie. I hope these vile, greedy people crash and burn and wind up in prison. I’m glad the astrology suggests they won’t be successful in their grifts.
Thanks for this Marjorie. Sir Bill Browder, American born and educated but now a British citizen, was, via his company, the biggest foreign investor in Russia. He said today on BBC News that nobody makes money investing in Russia – they steal it all! He’s a big critic of Trump and his money-making approach to ending the Ukraine war.
@Sandra Jones, Browder would know. And I don’t disagree with him. Interestingly, Trump tried to enter Russian real estate development business for almost 30 years. He never had any success in it because he doesn’t understand the logic behind. In Russia, the land has no commercial value. Moscow alone has a surface almost twice of that of NYC. There are still underdeveloped areas relatively close to center. In addition, rich people in Russia don’t have preferred vacationing areas inside the country the way Americans do. Putin’s inner circle stays essentially in developments that look much more like average holiday villages in the West. The middle class isn’t large enough to create the kind of housing bubbles seen in the West, either. Therefore, the money people make in the business mostly really comes from stealing, and isn’t as plenty as in the US. Developers like Aras Agalarov only made it to TOP 50 or there by in “Russia’s Richest” lists.
Now, they likely try some sort of a steal of “rare” earth minerals, issue being mines are extremely expensive to set up, and often are not, because the site production estimates are too low.