At this part in the transitions process, Little Marco has to be asking himself what exactly he is going to be responsible for. lol
Despite prior rumors, President Trump has announced that Retired Lt General Keith Kellogg will serve as his special envoy to Ukraine and Russia. This puts General Kellogg at the center of the upcoming negotiated peace deal that will ultimately end the conflict in Ukraine.
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Kellogg is a retired Army lieutenant general who has long been Trump’s top adviser on defense issues. Kellogg served as National Security Advisor to former Vice President Mike Pence. General Kellogg’s plan for ending the conflict involves freezing the battle lines at their current locations and inviting both Kyiv (Zelensky) and Moscow (Putin) to the negotiating table, Reuters reported in June.
… And, with that envoy announcement, I suspect we have now identified who will be President Trump’s emissary. Or, more accurately said, who Melania Trump identified as the best selection.
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Brilliant!
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I’m not thrilled w/ Kellogg & hope he’s another attack dog like Bolton, who Trump keeps on a leash. He strikes me as a made-for-cable-TV general, Fox News warhawk w/ the right tough guy talk. The situation is rapidly evolving in a very dangerous direction & you can’t be too invested in tough guy BS when the other side is pointing spooky missiles in your direction. You gotta be flexible
Quote taken from The Washington Examiner:
“Kellogg, 80, co-authored a research paper in April that called on a possible Trump administration to “start with a formal U.S. policy to bring the war to a conclusion” by continuing to “arm Ukraine and strengthen its defenses to ensure Russia will make no further advances and will not attack against after a ceasefire or peace agreement.””
In April at least, he basically called on the hypothetical Trump Administration to continue the Biden Administration’s policy of just enough military aid to keep the war going – a policy which has evolved into “let them fire missiles into Russian territory”
Russia hasn’t come to the table. It’s responded w/ a warlike posture & fired spooky new missiles that make the Gulf War tech look obsolete. The recent actions of Western leaders are radically escalating this conflict to a point where no one should count on personal diplomacy (Trump having a good rapport w/ Putin) to be a decisive factor. Putin may decide there’s simply no getting his message across & disregard Trump…..
In such a sticky situation, I don’t see what Kellogg brings to the table
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign-policy/3244251/trump-picks-keith-kellogg-ukraine-russia-war-envoy/
Kellogg is far from a “TV general.” In fact, he is the antithesis, for the very few of us who have followed him.
And to my knowledge, the only people who opposed and disparaged him during the first administration, were the DS and particularly the IC.
What does that say????
Russia does not have to concede a thing.
They are out producing the entire west in all of the kinds of munitions the west can provide.
Frankly in that area imo Russia would crush forces in the EU even if they decided to start a direct war.
“I don’t see what Kellogg brings to the table” but fortunately the man we elected to “see” what we can’t see and to be our DECIDER, POTUS and Commander in Chief, PDJT, not only DOES “see what Kellogg brings to the table”, PDJT wants him to bring those things.
Happy Thanksgiving Day to ALL, including the ” I-Know-Betters who typically don’t.
attack dog like Bolton? Maybe I’m reading your comment wrong? Spooky missiles? You think President Trump has not thought this out for 4 years?
Putin will decide the outcome , whatever Trump does. We have shown the Russians that we are incapable of keeping any agreement.
Putin will decide Russia’s course of action. PDJT will decide the outcome.
Russia will decide that outcome.
“Russia will decide”.
That depends on how one chooses to define “that outcome”.
Global leaders continue to acknowledge President Trumps vital role in determining what ” that outcome” will be even though their feels about it vary.
Obviously The NWO controlled leaders are reacting with increasingly unhinged rage and seethe that’s both entertaining AND encouraging to monitor.
Trump is.
Another Russia envoy story for interest – no deep research here 🙂
Over a few years Khrushchev and JFK had established a direct personal relationship between themselves; It was unable to stop the IC’s creation of the Cuban nuclear missile crisis in 1962 but, the trust they had established is quite likely what ended it.
As I remember, “Thirteen Days” painted a picture that the crisis was coming to a dangerous impasse when John Kennedy, isolated by the CIA, sensed that the communications he was getting were not coming directly from Khrushchev who JFK knew did not want war.
That night, October, 28 1962, JFK bypassed the State Department, secretly sending his trusted envoy Robert F Kennedy, to meet with USSR ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. They quickly reached a verbal agreement: Khrushchev to remove nuclear weapons from Cuba. Kennedy promises to lift the blockade from Cuba and dismantle the nuclear missiles in Turkey. Less than a month later, there were no more missiles in Cuba.
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Some insight on the relationship between Kennedy and Krushchev in Russia Beyond including the part RFK Jr. played in documenting the history……………………….
“Khrushev and Kennedy preferred to talk to each other, circumventing the official communication channels, so as few people as possible in the Kremlin and the White House would know about their correspondence. The First Secretary of the Soviet Union had his man in Washington, who could become the liaison between the two leaders.
From the memoirs of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“So then we had a spy that used to come to our house all the time, a guy called Georgi Bolshakov, and he was this Russian spy my parents had met at the embassy. They had gone to a party or a reception at the Russian Embassy. And he had approached them and they knew he was a GRU agent and KGB. He was both, oh, he used to come to our house. They really liked him, he was very attractive. He was always laughing and joking. He would do rope climbing contests with my father. He would do push-up contests with my father. He could do the Russian dancing, the Cossacks dancing. And he would do that for us and teach us that. And we knew he was a spy, too. And this was at the time of, you know, the James Bond films were first coming out. So, it was really exciting for us, to have an actual Russian spy in our house.
The State Department was horrified by it. Khrushchev… sent this long letter to my uncle and he didn’t wanna go through his state department or his embassy. He was friends with Bolshakov, so he gave Georgi the letter and Georgi brought it and handed it to Pierre Salinger, folded in the New York Times. And he gave it to my uncle,”
Left: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine Nikita Khrushchev on the tribune, 1944. Right: Lt. John F. Kennedy in ceremonial dress, 1942.
https://www.rbth.com/history/336509-kennedy-khrushchev-secret-correspondence
Backchannels can be very useful.
Thank God PDJT has always understood this reality and is skillful at using them.
Thanks for offering so an intriguing and timely reminder.
And thank God PDJT has always understood the importance of back channels and used them so brilliantly.
Which continues to enrage “the confederacy of dunces aligned against him”. H/t Jonathan Swift.
Will be interesting to see what Larry Johnson’s (sonar.21) view is of Kellogg. Also someone like Simplicius.
Someone who can at least respect the Russian side in this.
Someone who could rattle off at least 5-10 ways that the Ukrainian battlefront has changed in the last 2 years.
Someone who cares about the 20-25 bioresearch facilities the US funded in Ukraine to avoid stateside scrutiny.
Someone not wedded to the Sen. Lindsey Graham view of the world.
Ukraine is existential to Russia, but just a money grab to us.
So who is more motivated?
Which side has the superior resources to enable them to simply walk away from any deal that doesnt achieve 100% of their objectives?
Two nuke bombs were dropped to convince the world at the end of ww2.
There will need to be a second barrage of spooky missles to convince VSG of the weakness of the US position.
Unfortunately not impressed with the PAID TV general. Should have been Colonol MacGregor, but he
s not in favor of Israelis out of control war.Fortunately, IF it actually “should have been Colonel McGregor” rather than DJTs long time advisor and loyal supporter, Keith aka Lt General Keith Kellog, then that’s who President Trump would have chosen. AGAIN.
In other words, President Trump chose BOTH the retired Lt General AND Colonel to serve as advisors during his first term.
Fwiw BOTH men have been “PAID TV” military analysts.
Rather than choosing to criticize, perhaps try using Corey Lewandowski’s famous mantra, “Let Trump be Trump”, giving heartfelt THANKS for The November 5th MIRACLE and PRAYING for, rather than PREYING on President Trump and the people he chooses.
After all, today IS Americas national Thanksgiving Day.
And in T minus 53 Days, God willing, it will be Inauguration Day
Macgregor is on alternative media daily saying the same thing. Kellog is on TV talking nonsense. They both were loyal to Trump, and Kellog may have an entirely different outlook in private. I figurehe might or Trump wouldn`t have picked him.
I’m happy…you are the very best 🙂
Former Russian president and current deputy chairman of the Security Counsel, Dmitry Medevdev:
“Looks like my sad joke about crazy senile Biden, who’s eager to go out with a bang and take a substantial part of humanity with him, is becoming dangerously real.”
“giving nukes to a country that’s at war with the greatest nuclear power” is so absurd that Biden and any of his officials considering it must have “massive paranoid psychosis.”
“The fact of transferring such weapons may be considered as the launch of an attack against our country in accordance with Paragraph 19 of the ‘Basic Principles of State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence’,”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/niall-ferguson-scott-horton-debate-ukraine-war-tomorrow-evening-zerohedge-exclusive
Love Ric Grinell!
Not so sure about Kellog…
Kellogg is a Neocon Russia hawk. I’m just about to call it: Trump has learned nothing. If he thinks he’s going to achieve peace in Ukraine by making the Russians cower with his tough talk, he’s got another think coming. The Russians will just tell him to get lost. They know we’ve already done our worst, and they’ve shrugged it off. We’re in no position to bully Russia. If Trump wants peace, and especially a lasting peace, he will have to agree to Russia’s terms. This shouldn’t be hard, because their terms are mild and reasonable, and they will benefit not just Russia, but Ukraine, Europe and even the US in the long run.