Power Moves: Your Daily Global Diplomacy Brief

vladimir putin has agreed in principle to resume three way peace talks with washington and kyiv as early as november 10 in abu dhabi in our last episode we tracked how quiet pressure dictates global deals today that leverage forced its way to the surface in saint petersburg and across the gulf here is what just changed first the united states ordered nonemergency diplomats and their families to evacuate saudi arabia that order follows strikes by iran aligned houthis that killed at least three people at an oil field and damam civilian airport injuring eight others second the united states treasury sanctioned karnakis and karnakis a law firm rooted in panama and greece for registering shadow fleet vessels carrying illicit iranian petroleum and steel treasury also issued a rare fincen subpoena to investigate an unnamed greek bank third president donald trump announced that washington and new delhi are nearing a distinct bilateral trade agreement following the suspension of proposed 100% penalties on buyers of russian crude finally turkey's government submitted the mecca joint defense agreement to parliament locking ankara saudi

arabia and pakistan into a ten year mutual defense pact with a nato style article five pledge now look closely at what happened inside the constantine palace near saint petersburg steve witkoff the united states special envoy spent three hours with putin presenting new framework documents the meeting opened with moscow releasing stephen hubbard a 74 year old american teacher held since 2022 that part is confirmed what remains contested is whether either capital will budge on the actual ground president volodymyr zelensky confirmed kyiv's support's meeting in early november to halt strikes on energy grids but the background is brutal european allies are alarmed by recent cuts to battlefield intelligence sharing and starlink speeds while washington recently granted waivers for russian diesel putin's aides were quick to tell reporters that russian forces hold the strategic initiative and that the latest proposals offer little to settle the war witkoff walked in with paper but moscow responded with military position notice the connective tissue across every single one of these moves today from the evacuation sirens in damam to sanctions on

greek maritime lawyers and trade bargaining with india nobody is moving because of goodwill every delegation at the table is reacting to raw applied leverage severed supply lines drone strikes and threatened tariffs that is claimed not confirmed whenever a communique calls this sudden goodwill i am standing on the facts and what we can see is sheer coercion shaping the room that is the picture from here back to you in the studio