BREAKING: LONDON AIRPORTS CLOSED, DRONES HEADING TOWARDS NATO. WHAT DID KUSHNER PROMISE PUTIN IN MOSCOW?

What, exactly, did Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff say to Vladimir Putin behind closed doors in Moscow on Saturday? That question has become considerably more urgent in the seventy-two hours since they left the Kremlin. Kushner and Witkoff spent more than three hours with Putin on September 5, after spending another three-and-a-half hours being wined and dined by Putin's bagman at one of Moscow's most exclusive restaurants. We know remarkably little about what happened in either room. The Kremlin says the Americans presented 'a number of ideas' about a possible settlement in Ukraine. We do not know what those ideas were. In the wake of the meeting, Putin's foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov also revealed something that deserves much more attention. The conversation, heclaims, went beyond Ukraine and included economic cooperation and potential 'major Russia-U.S. projects' that could be mutually beneficial. Witkoff and Kushner, he added, "outlined a number of ideas regarding possible avenues for a settlement.' What kind of projects? What were their ideas? What assurances did they give and receive in return? The American public has not been told. But whatever they are, they must have set off alarms from Brussels to London to Warsaw. Nearly no other member of NATO believes that Putin should be rewarded for sabotage, saber rattling, and launching the biggest war on the European continent since World War II. Within days, Putin sent a powerful signal that he has no fear of the United States standing in his way.