https://www.rt.com/news/613075-eu-leaders-fear-america/
It is another voice heard, not necessarily correct, but adding a Russian view.
More:
https://www.rt.com/news/612823-trenin-russias-long-term-play/
https://www.rt.com/news/612981-last-battle-of-cold-war/
https://www.rt.com/news/613109-rubio-russia-talks-purpose/
The theme of "a changing world order" seems prevalent in the RT publishing.
What is getting little sensible U.S. press coverage, is Rubio making press statements, which are overridden in U.S. news, by Musk and a chainsaw.
https://www.rt.com/news/613109-rubio-russia-talks-purpose/
Clearly Crabgrass has no bar or measure to weigh that last link's reporting, but it is because U.S. outlets either don't give a shit or colletively decline to say much.
Also, if Russia and the U.S. are meeting without Europe present, or China, this is to reach some form of bilateral understanding going forward, not a larger thing where other voices might be invited. With that fact, what the Russian press, close to the Russian government, is reporting, is relevant to any attempt to understand what's happening. China is probably wondering "what's happening" more than I am.
Russia shares a border with China. We share an Ocean with both. And there will be a new head of the U.S. Navy under Hegseth. And Ukraine has natural resources.
And Hegseth in Europe did not display a negotiation position without being told to.
What is unclear to Crabgrass is whether Russia has a strong opposition to U.S. taking economic gain from Ukranian mining as some conceptual repayment for a period of arms supply which seems possibly at an end, amounts spent being capped. Russia keeps its real estate gains, U.S. gets resources, E.U./NATO gets a message, so that long term reevaluations are happening.
UPDATE: The rare earth mining situation appears that no productive mining is going on now, nor was before Russian entry into Ukraine. Had Russia toppled Kiev in its blitzkreig start of things on entering, Russia would have the mineral potential. Now the U.S. wants it and Russia seems willing to allow that, in exchange for keeping seized lands. But that's reading between the lines;
search = Ukraine U.S. rare-earth-mining (past day)
Surely untapped rare-earth possibilities need capital to be exploited, and Russia is sanctioned, and China is the current big player in rare-earth trade. So, the actual status of Ukrainian mineral wealth, potential vs actual, is under-reported in the U.S.
FURTHER: It appears that the land taken by Russia along its border with Ukraine gives it a Black Sea warm water port, and the industrialized border region; war torn perhaps, but rebuildable. And Russian gas pipelines to Europe cross Ukraine and appear to remain intact, whatever the fighting. That, again, is unclear. Russia has other lines to supply European energy consumption, but full supply includes Ukraine trans-shipment. It is all a ball of thread, as to the economics of something seemingly short of all-out-war. Crabgrass admits its limited understandings, otherwise called ignorance of facts.
A further thing,Russian based military in Syria have seemed content with Israeli intrusion into that nation. And before Russian military entry into Ukraine, Bennett, then Israel's Prime Minister, visited Moscow and appeared to have some kind of an understanding about not supplying any Israeli arms to Ukraine. More threads to tie into the tapestry telling the story of it all.