In a Hill opinion column, Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet argue Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were outplayed by Russia at the Abu Dhabi peace talks, sidelining European allies and, in their view, putting NATO's future on the negotiating table. They trace Vladimir Putin's case against NATO to his 2021 essay on Russian-Ukrainian unity and quote Kaja Kallas saying the negotiators "have just been pretending that they negotiate."