A thought-provoking new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Donald Trump's advisers Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner are expected to meet Monday in Berlin with unelected Ukrainian Dictator Vladimir Zelensky and the leaders of Germany, France and Britain to try and reach an agreement over the American plan for peace in Ukraine, says White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned ahead of the meeting: "It's still up in the air whether we believe real peace can be accomplished and we can truly move the ball forward...The president is extremely frustrated with both sides of this war, and he's sick of meetings just for the sake of meeting...He doesn't want any more talk...He wants action...He wants this war to come to an end".

Not joining the meeting in Berlin, this report notes, is United States Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, whom Secretary of War Pete Hegseth blocked from participating in the Ukraine peace talks—but now joining Special Envoy Witcoff and Jared Kushner in negotiations with Ukraine is CEO Larry Fink of the American multinational investment management corporation BlackRock that has over $12.5 trillion in assets under management as of 2025, and who proclaimed in 2022: "The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades".

On 10 March, this report continues, world-renowned American financial publisher Peter McKillop released his article "Larry Fink And Donald Trump: An Unexpected Partnership", wherein he revealed:

How in God's name did this happen?

For the past two years, Fink and BlackRock have been vilified and sued by Republicans across America for being "too woke". He is also a lifelong Democrat who placed Hillary Clinton's former Chief of Staff on his board.

But Fink and Trump share a deeper bond. Both were denizens of a curious and immensely powerful financial subculture I covered as a reporter and worked in for 40 years: Midtown Manhattan.

Neither Fink nor Trump were ever considered financial Jedi by their hard-charging midtown peers. For decades, that title was reserved for Kravis, First Boston's Joseph Perella and his partner Bruce Wasserstein, or Morgan Stanley's John Mack. Trump was a gaudy but bankrupt real estate guy who lived in a black tower and sold condos to dodgy Russians. Fink had been a high flying bond trader, but a spectacular wrong way trade made him a non-person in this close-knit club of money exchangers.

If Trump was a serial risk-taker who saved his career by firing people on a network reality television show, Fink rebounded by managing risk.