A WH meeting for Putin's CEO of Russia's wealth fund same week Trump was revealing his tariffs is deep dirty shit

MOSCOW — As world governments and markets reel from steep new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, there was one major economy notably missing from the White House list — namely, Russia.

It is already the target of massive Western sanctions on the financial, energy and defense sectors. Oligarchs and hundreds of high-ranking officials with Kremlin ties have also been slapped with sanctions. Tariffs on Russia, therefore, would have taken the country's economic challenges to the next level.

But that didn't happen.

A visit by a senior Kremlin envoy to the White House this week may provide some clues.

Enter Kirill Dmitriev, a Stanford-educated former Goldman Sachs investment banker, and CEO of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, who happens to still be formally under US sanctions imposed by the Biden administration.

Dmitriev is expected to meet with his White House counterpart, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff this week. The two had engaged in negotiations that eventually led to Russia's release of American school teacher Marc Fogel last February, in a move widely interpreted as a Kremlin gesture to improve relations with the new Trump administration.

Dmitriev arrived in Washington on Wednesday as Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special envoy for international economic cooperation," a role Dmitriev was appointed to amid last month's closely watched US-Russian negotiations in Saudi Arabia.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/03/g-s1-58138/russia-escapes-trump-tariffs-as-envoy-pushes-deals-with-washington

...from all appearances, this Russian effort (whatever it is, it's an economic meeting in the midst of Russian genocide against Ukraine, and certainly not about that atrocity) was coordinated with the Kremlin in a meeting four weeks ago, when Witkoff was revealed through the Signal call scandal to have been on his phone in Moscow while meeting with Vladimir Putin.

...at least we now know what his priority was in that meeting with Putin. I suspect he was given a new folder of Kompromat to keep Trump and fellow congressional appeasers towing the line.


Mission: Continue destruction of U.S. economic hegemony.