This is not a coincidence.
Iran is scaling back its rhetoric because Musk probably gifted them with land acquisition. This violates not only Iranian sanctions but also sanctions against Russia as it enhances its trade economics, which includes more Iranian drone shipments that kill Ukrainian children as they sleep. Musk is a traitor relying on the purchase in some low key way of Trump’s pardoning power.
With this development it is easy to see Trump’s plans for Ukraine. Ukraine will be assigned economic dependency with Russia. NATO needs to accept Ukraine into the organization and move NATO into Ukraine which would bring the USA into support the effort to stabilize Ukraine and return function to the land allowing Ukrainians to return home.
Trump can’t just close out the USA from NATO. He can pretend to have control when he doesn’t. He can be undiplomatic and ridiculed for grotesque behavior, but, NATO is a treaty and a long standing benevolent treaty. Only Congress can pass, modify, or end any treaty. The legislature and its moral content in the value of human life including maintaining our military readiness will rule the next four years. Trump has executive rights, but, no power to alter the course of the USA democracy. He can make life miserable, but, not permanently or exclusively.
Let’s bring Ukrainians home and expand NATO. Only then will Russia be able to negotiate a lifting of sanctions. The interior of Russia is in shambles. The prisoners Putin put on the front lines of his Ukraine conflict are returning home from war with their criminal records expunged and accolades of hero worship coming their way. The returning criminals return to the only life they know as criminals and are basically untouchable. If the local constabulary actually files charges against their heroes, the criminals simply return to the war until they are free to return home again. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. This includes murderers, pedophiles, and any other unimaginable Russian vermin.
NATO’s movement into Ukraine will actually liberate the Russian people from an increasingly hostile domestic picture. NATO will end the conflict. Russia and its nuclear threats are its only real resort and amounts to desperation and stupidity. Russia is one of five permanent nuclear powers. It’s propaganda is it’s only real sword.