A 28-point peace plan to square away the war in Ukraine recently leaked, prompting meltdowns by those who have been fed the fantasy that Ukraine could beat Russia on the battlefield.

The unofficial formula for Trump tackling any foreign policy question is almost always the following: Stay the course in favor of weapons sales to enrich the U.S. military-industrial complex, but only until a potential for personal profit emerges.

So when Russian sovereign wealth fund chief (and Putin’s special presidential envoy) Kirill Dmitriev appeared on the scene amid peace negotiations, it was only a matter of time before things were going to be wrapping up on the battlefront.

The leaked peace proposal is basically one big business deal between Russia and the U.S. And that business deal ostensibly doubles as the security guarantee that the Europeans keep demanding, because the plan calls for Russia to contribute $100 billion to “U.S.-led efforts to rebuild and invest in Ukraine.” There’s no way that either Washington or Moscow is going to tolerate missiles flying around overhead while the bean counters and resource extractors move in to cash in.

Under the deal, all sanctions are to be dropped against America’s new partner, and Russia would be reintegrated into the Western-led G-8 institution of global governance.

And what does Europe get? Well, they’re currently all arguing on the world stage about how to straight-up steal frozen Russian assets being held in European banks, valued at around $225 billion, and then just hand it over to Ukraine. They can’t figure out how to do this without getting sued or spooking investors by acting like the colleague who eats the takeout that you stored in the fridge for later.

Noting this apparent desperation to blow more cash that they don’t have, and perhaps noting Europe’s chronic disinterest in actually extracting a return on investment for their own citizens, Teams Trump and Putin propose that “Europe will add $100 billion to increase the amount of investment available for Ukraine’s reconstruction,” the profits from which America gets 50 percent. It’s basically a global timeshare agreement.

Instead of pointing out their lack of return on investment, Europe has been complaining about the plan freezing Ukraine’s borders where the war has now placed them. They’re acting like children drawing lines in a sandbox with a stick. Because that’s totally how wars and borders work, right? You push a country to fight it out, then when it loses, you just say, “Hey, let’s just pretend this never happened.”

The West is generally inept at parlaying its regime-change efforts into stable profitable ventures. The best the Europeans have been hoping for was to keep this conflict going long enough to be able to dump a ton of their own cash into their own economy under the pretext that Putin would be showing up in Europe right after he was done with Ukraine. Which is why they’re livid at this.