My fellow Duranians
I apologize for taking so long to get this done, last week Thursday we had a live, as you know with Daniel McAdams and therefore I didn´t get around to completing my work.
But at long last here we are:

Putin-Erdogan, Istanbul 3.0? Lavrov, EU NOT invited to table. Trump; talk to Maduro, trashes Rand
Topic 1887

US Meets Russia Budanov UAE; Russia Rejects Outright EU Plan Reaffirms SMO Goals Storms Huiliaipole
Topic 1741

The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105041082797685-frances-marine-le-pen-acquitted-in-case-over-violating-hate-speech-laws/

Russian Presidential aide Ushakov on the EU peace plan: "It is unconstructive, unsuitable."
Russian Presidential aide Ushakov on the Trump 28-point plan: "I would say not all, but many provisions of this plan, they seem quite acceptable to us."

Trump's plan and the EU plan do have differences but on many key issues, the key issues, they are very similar.

What is the one key difference, which makes one plan "unconstructive" and the other "acceptable"?
Who it is coming from. One plan is from EU the other from the US. Russia is prepared to negotiate with the US, and wants nothing to do with the EU.

Putin-Erdogan phone call:
Erdogan is prepared to provide Istanbul as a platform for negotiations.
Putin told Erdogan that the peace proposals were consistent with the understandings reached during the Alaska summit in August, and that the initiative could serve as the basis for a potential peace agreement.

The stage is being set.
Istanbul may serve, once again, as the location for ...