Chris

The best guess is that it was cooked up between Russian representatives and Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy, who speaks Russian and thinks he understands Russia (in reality Witless Witkoff is even more likely to be a bona fide Russian intelligence asset than Trump).

That’s what’s giving them just enough plausibility to claim the document is actually an American initiative, despite it obviously having originated in Russian and basically being a re-statement of Russia’s maximalist war aims.