When the country’s intelligence chiefs go to Congress on Tuesday to provide the first “global threat assessment” in President Trump’s second state, they will face an extraordinary option.
Do they have been committed to their long -term conclusion about President Vladimir Vin Putin from Russia, that his goal is to crush the Ukrainian government and “undermine the United States and the West?”
Or did they give Mr. Putin on the terms of Mr. Trump and his highest negotiation with Russia, describing him these days: as a commercial partner in the reliable future that simply wants to end a bad war, and control parts of Ukraine that is right in the usual relationship with the United States?
The liberated option has become clearer in recent days since Steve Whizov, one of my older friends, has become a real estate world and his chosen envoy to the Middle East and Russia, to capture many favorite points of conversation for Mr. Putin.
The Master, Wittakouf, removed European fears that Russia could violate any ceasefire and the peacekeeping force must be collected to deter Moscow. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, The Pro-Maga PodCaster, Mr. Witkoff said that the idea of ​​keeping peace was a “mix of position and formation” by the nearest NATO allies in America.
He said that from the point of view of “a kind of idea that we all should be like Winston Churchill, the Russians will walk throughout Europe.” He continued: “I think this is not glorious.”
More than three years after the Russian forces poured to Kiev and tried to remove the government, Mr. Wittouf argued that Mr. Putin does not really want to seize all Ukraine.
“Why do they want to absorb Ukraine?” Mr. Carlson asked. “For any purpose, exactly? They don’t need to absorb Ukraine.” He says that all Russia seeks to “stability there.”
Mr. Wittakov said of Mr. Putin, a stunning description of the United States’s opponent for a long time, and the Master of Deception, which has repeatedly told the world that he has no intention to invade Ukraine.
Among all the repercussions that flood the head in Washington these days, the Trump administration’s view of Russia and its willingness to believe Mr. Putin, who leaves allies, intelligence officials and diplomats most surprising.
Until Mr. Trump took office, the consensus of the United States and its allies was desperately naive about Russia’s real aspirations for a very long time – they failed to carefully listen to Mr. Putin when he argued for the first time, in 2007, that there are parts of Russia that need to be restored to the homeland. Then Georgia invaded, annexing the Crimea and sending the army – from the uniform – to make a guerrilla war in Donbas.
However, the sanctions were slow to apply, and Europe was very slow to infiltrate – a point that Mr. Trump explains himself when he pressed the Europeans for more money to defend themselves.
Now, Mr. Trump refuses to recognize what is clear, that Russia invaded Ukraine. Publicly opposed by many European leaders, who say that even if the United States is planning to find the normalization of relations with Russia, they do not do it. “I do not trust in Putin,” British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer told the New York Times last week. “I am sure that Putin will try to insist that Ukraine should be isolated after a deal because that gives him what he wants, which is the opportunity to enter again.”
But for US intelligence agencies, whose opinions are supposed to be rooted in a strict analysis of the analysis that was made secretly collected and open sources, there is no yet that any of their opinions about Mr. Putin and his aspirations have changed. Therefore, it will be up to the new director of national intelligence, Toulcy Gabbard, and the director of the new CIA, John Ratcliffe, to follow the high line in Russia’s description as a current opponent and a future partner.
Mr. Wittouf went to this way in his conversation with Mr. Carlson. He said: “The sea passages, and perhaps send liquefied natural gas to Europe together, and perhaps cooperate on artificial intelligence,” after imagining the ceasefire stopping in which Russia is negotiating the lands it is now occupying and getting assurances that Ukraine will never join NATO. “Who does not want to see a world like this?”
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, Democrat at the Chamber’s Intelligence Committee, said that the comments of Mr. Witkeov and others in the Trump administration are very high for American spies.
“If you grow up in the intelligence community, knowing that all the terrible things that Vladimir Putin did and suddenly, you have a change in the situation where you take the Russian team completely, how do you understand that?” Mr. Warner said.
Mr. Warner said that the document that the intelligence community will reveal it on Tuesday, evaluate the annual threat, very traditional and is in line with the previous versions of it. But what intelligence leaders will say to Mr. Trump in the testimony is not clear. Mr. Warner said so far that the administration’s comments on Ukraine reflected anything but the traditional view of the threat from Russia.
Mr. Warner said that the changing American policy on Russia threatens intelligence partnerships. While America brings together much more intelligence than other countries, the joint contributions of the main allies are great. And if their concerns about American policy and the analysis of believers of intelligence are growing, they will share them less.
Several allies officials, with the refusal to talk about the record, pointed to many of the statements of Mr. Wittakf with the alert, saying that they are closely reflected in Russian conversation points. He supported Russian “referendums” in four major Ukrainian provinces that were widely considered forged, with voters threatening torture and deportation if they were misrepresented in a wrong way. But Mr. Witkev spoke as if they were legitimate elections.
He said: “There were referendums where the vast majority of people indicated that they wanted to be under Russian rule.” Shortly later, Olksander Merizko, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Ukrainian Parliament, said on Monday that the master should be removed from his position.
“These are simply disgraceful and shocking statements,” Mr. Mirzco told the Ukrainian media. “He transmits Russian propaganda. I have a question: Who is he? Is he a Trump envoy, or may he be Putin’s envoy?”
President Voludmir Zellinski of Ukraine was more cautious in an interview with Time magazine, which was released on Monday. He said he believed that “Russia was able to influence some people in the White House team through information.” Earlier, he talked about the “Tadlal Network” surrounding Mr. Trump, saying he contributed to their famous bad relationship.
He pointed out that Mr. Trump repeated Mr. Putin’s claim that the decline in the Ukrainian forces in western Russia has cordoned off.
“This was a lie.”
Continuing méheut She contributed to the reports from Kyiv.
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