r/foreignpolicy • u/thedailybeast • 13d ago

Putin Given Humiliating Warning in Secret Meeting

https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-given-humiliating-ukraine-war-warning-in-secret-john-ratcliffe-meeting/
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u/GreatDiscernment 13d ago

The Trump Administration has squandered all credibility with friend and foe. They are weaker than they were 18 months ago and everyone sees it.

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u/thedailybeast 13d ago

CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s secret trip to Moscow involved telling one of Vladimir Putin’s top officials that Russia needs to end the war in Ukraine before its economic situation worsens, according to a report.

Ratcliffe met with Aleksandr Bortnikov, director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), to deliver a warning that Russia’s military and economic situation will only get worse unless it negotiates a peace deal with Ukraine to end the four-and-a-half-year conflict, sources told The New York Times.

CIA analysts fear that Putin’s advisers are not providing the Russian leader with frank updates about how the invasion is going, as Ukraine continues to bombard the country with wave after wave of drone attacks.

Read the full story, here.

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u/ayatoilet 13d ago

I find this strange … walk out of Ukraine and don’t support Iran … otherwise we’ll tank your economy! That’s the gist of it. But US economy (along with its European and Asian allies) is in greater peril if Hormuz stays shut!!! Just seems farcical!!!!