Within media reporting there is usually a ring of truth, albeit spun into a fake news narrative. President Trump famously said, “the reports are real, the news is fake.” I suspect this report today about CIA Director John Ratcliffe being more involved in the Ukraine-Russia conflict negotiations is a prime example.
We’ll start here: “CIA director John Ratcliffe is preparing to take a bigger role in U.S. negotiations with Russia and Ukraine, U.S. officials have told their European counterparts, in a bid to jump-start moribund diplomatic efforts to end the four-and-a-half-year-long war,” the Financial Times reports.
“The move comes as the White House is considering paring back the involvement of U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who have been leading the talks with Moscow and Kyiv.” {Source)
I suspect the first paragraph is accurate, and I suspect the second paragraph is entirely fake news. That opinion seems verified by the White House refuting the Financial Times report. Pay attention to what they actually refute:
“This entire story is totally fake news attributed to low-level, anonymous ‘sources’ who have no idea what they are talking about. None of these supposed conversations are happening. Special Envoy Witkoff and Jared Kushner continue to work incredibly hard towards a peace agreement, and the President trusts them fully to lead negotiations on behalf of the United States. It’s a shame that Financial Times has devolved into a left-wing gossip rag that has zero interest in reporting accurate information.” ~White House, Anna Kelly
I have a theory on this, and generally I don’t get out in advance of things – preferring to wait, assemble data, and then citing the backstory in the full context outline. However, this story is different. There’s a geopolitical clock ticking and I suspect events will unfold rather quickly, so it’s worth peeking around the corner in advance of the picture emerging.
To start, understand the Russian psychology and how the Kremlin specifically presents their positions. Russians don’t do small talk at all. If a Russian has nothing to say, if they perceive no value or transactional purpose in words, they stay quiet.
Russians speak when there is value in the conversation. Russians do not do small talk; that’s a western attribute.
That’s why when the Kremlin quickly broadcast video of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner immediately meeting with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin and top aide Ushakov, it seemed odd. Letting the cameras roll while Witkoff, Kushner and Putin himself engaged in small talk diplomatic introductions was very odd. Beyond odd. That’s the thing that interested observers noted was unusual. Something was different.
Then came the follow-up. President Trump speaking with President Putin for an hour, and the specific wording used by Ushakov to describe the conversation itself. There were several points of interest in how the readout was worded, with particular interest to these paragraphs:
[…] “Clearly, the conversation centered on Ukrainian settlement. Donald Trump directly communicated the desirability of bringing the conflict to an end as soon as possible, as it would immediately open up prospects – impressive and far-reaching ones at that – for the full restoration of relations between the U.S. and Russia. In his view, this would have a particular impact on trade and economic ties, promising huge benefits for both nations. Donald Trump is keen to see a breakthrough achieved during his presidency.
President Putin supported this approach in the context of potentially building a constructive partnership between the two great powers and praised the mediation efforts by the US and Donald Trump personally with respect to finding solutions to the Ukrainian conflict. An objective and extensive analysis of the current developments in the special military operation was provided, along with our vision of the overall progress on the battlefield and achieving the goals and objectives of the special military operation. Speaking of which, actual tangible actions that the Americans could take to expedite the cessation of the hostilities were outlined.”… {source, Kremlin}
I am very confident that President Trump is looking at Russia as a mechanism to solve the Iran conflict and beyond. {GO DEEP} That’s why the “trade and economic ties, promising huge benefits for both nations,” directly attributed to President Trump, is part of the readout.
Then you get to the more surprising part. “[Russia’s] vision of the overall progress on the battlefield and achieving the goals and objectives of the special military operation. Speaking of which, actual tangible actions that the Americans could take to expedite the cessation of the hostilities were outlined.” President Putin outlined tangible actions “Americans could take.” Putting that in a readout of a call between Trump and Putin is quite remarkable.
I suspect that Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump had a very honest conversation about the overall conflict, and when President Trump brings up the restoration of the economic relationship as well as the removal of sanctions, Putin then challenged Trump.
Russian President Putin doesn’t believe that President Trump or any other U.S. President actually controls the mechanisms of government. This opinion is underlined and emphasized when it comes to the U.S. Intelligence Community and the CIA.
Putin has long stated that no U.S. President controls the CIA, and Putin has said while he never views the U.S. President or the people of America as his enemy, the CIA are the problem. Putin views the CIA as the real control mechanism within the U.S. government.
America is not Russia’s enemy, the CIA is. That’s Putin’s perspective in a nutshell.
When it was revealed how the FBI, ODNI and CIA had targeted candidate Donald Trump and later President Trump, Vladimir Putin used this reference point in all of his statements about “Russiagate” as an I-told-you-so point of emphasis. Putin has a long-held belief that U.S. intelligence agencies operated outside the framework of government, and the “Russiagate” operation against Trump proved it. At least that was his public perspective.
There is nothing evident to sway Putin’s perspective and opinion toward President Trump in term-2. Putin doesn’t believe Trump controls the intelligence agencies, and Putin certainly doesn’t believe Trump controls the CIA.
Now, put that Putin-Trump phone call (use the readout as a reference) together with the report today that CIA Director John Ratcliffe will take a “greater role in Russia-Ukraine talks.”
I suspect that President Trump discussed the benefits to Russia of rejoining the world economy, the removal of sanctions, the financial benefits from the sale of Russian oil and gas and the geopolitical benefits of Russia and the United States forming a strategic relationship. However, I also suspect that Putin returned that outlook by telling President Trump he was not in control of USIC and as a consequence really not in control of the U.S relationship with NATO.
Obviously, President Trump would counter that he was in control of the USIC and all the downstream institutions, but Putin would be incredulous to the possibility. History is on the side of Putin and DNI Gabbard could only achieve so much.
[‘Sure, if you are really in control – then do XXXX’] which in a readout becomes “actual tangible actions that the Americans could take.”
“CIA director John Ratcliffe is preparing to take a bigger role in U.S. negotiations with Russia and Ukraine, U.S. officials have told their European counterparts, in a bid to jump-start moribund diplomatic efforts to end the four-and-a-half-year-long war,” the Financial Times reports.
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What? US govt advising allies to keep American weapons flowing to Ukraine. Does President Trump know about this??
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagon-informs-allies-prepare-protracted-war-ukraine
Interesting and not surprising.
Do not believe that President Trump will aide either side! He wants this war over!
I got the permaband on that site for calling out all the anti Jewish posters over there. I don’t read their crap anymore.
Same. It turned into a BLM/Antifa – ‘from the river to the sea’ – romper room. Had to wade through pages of inane, childish gibberish before coming across an adult comment, based in truth and facts.
Sounds like someone lined Colby’s pockets to switch his perspective from Taiwan to Ukraine. Maybe it’s time for a demotion.
CIA is the primary aggressor in the war against Russia so it’s helpful if the CIA now actually wants peace.
How about Putin gives Radcliffe information related to the specific CIA trash that are undermining all of PDTs efforts globally? That right there could he the gift from Putin to PDT that changes the entire playing field
If the two could actually execute a plan that would bear fruit. Now that would be sumptin!
What if…………that has been going on since Trump’s first term.
I believe they have been working somewhat together since Trump’s first term…….both countries…..in fact every country………has their deepstate they are up against.
You don’t think an agenda….like the NEW WORLD ORDER and all they want to accomplish regardless of what we want or think……is only here in America…..do you?
Radcliffe is the Underminer In Chief.
Well ORG, out of all the things I was thinking, yours wasn’t even in my queue. Truly next level thinking. If your idea were to happen and hold true, it would break the back of the DS. Kudos my branchmate!
That would be the entire official and unofficial org chart. Plus contractors informants et al.
Rotten to the core. And the left hand doesnt know what right hand is doing.
I think you are right about this. It makes perfect sense. I also trust Radcliffe.
I say we throw Nuland in as a gesture that we mean business. Putin could make her give up names, if he doesn’t know who the spooks all are.
Maybe…….Trump already got all that in his first term…..when he went to Russia with Melania and Putin….gave Trump that soccer ball…….
Wonder what was in it!
HMMMMMMM!
THAT would be a sight to see. It would look like rats leaving a sinking ship. Defense lawyers getting rich,, media beyond meltdown mode; and maybe some serious felony convictions that stick, with nary a DS judge to get them off.
Both political parties would collapse I suspect.
USIC, MI6, and all related entities – NATO, EU, etc. are fully owned subsidiaries of the Globalist governing system – deep state, city of london, or however you wish to define them. PDJT and team are dismantling the financial and operations structure that they live on. Banking cartels are now identified and being taken out. It’s a centuries old control system – not expecting overnite change. But, in the words of Michael….” BATTLE!”
The CIA and MI6 are joined at the hip and Britain, Germany and France want war with Russia. Therefore, the CIA also want war, but the CIA wants war for different reasons. The CIA wants to control a large swath of Eurasia, including Ukraine and they can’t do that while Russia is asserting itself in Ukraine.
Also, it is important to understand that the CIA Director doesn’t necessarily control the CIA. The CIA has become more dangerous at home than the FBI and even more dangerous abroad for literally everyone. Like the General Jack Ripper character in “Doctor Strangelove” The CIA believe that war is too important to be left to the politicians. So, what DJT wants in Ukraine is irrelevant to them.
One problem with the out of control CIA is they are not solely funded by US taxpayers. There’s rivers of dirty money flowing to that evil entity
One more problem with the see-eye-aye is that the spies are each operating in several different personnas over their ‘term in office’, that any outsider (PJDT) who wants to clean up the Agency, will never be able to discern which entity he/she is encountering/dealing with…. and that goes for a Head Guy/Gal like Ratcliffe. jmo
Every nation on earth.
I believe Black Rock is their investment front company.
That’s how they launder their stolen tax payer money and drug and human trafficking money etc.
Coupled with Rubio’s work in the Americas….is it possible that a significant chunk of the drug monies flowing into the darker CIA coffers is getting drained off? Ona can only hope…..
The CIA and MI6 are closely linked—that much is clear.
The CIA is also closely linked to the Mossad.
https://www.michaelrcronin.com/post/what-is-the-relationship-between-mossad-and-the-cia
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000100540001-4.pdf
Germany, France , UK want war with Russia only as long as it’s only Ukraine being bombed and not their cities.
I’m thinking that like the President isn’t in control of the mechanisms of government, likewise, we should then wonder if
John Ratcliffe is really in control of the mechanisms of the CIA.
John Ratcliffe is President Trump’s choice to lead the beast, but is such a thing really possible? (I doubt it myself knowing history).
This is a move by the President to try and accomplish this end to this war, but it’s only going to work if John Ratcliffe actually does have real control of the beast.
How this all goes will give us this answer based upon what Mr. Putin decides -because I bet he knows.
wh6 wonder? just assume the worst and you cant go wrong.
The Janissaries were first a creature of the ottoman Turkish dynasty and then a creature largely independent of its will though soaking off huge revenues.
The Praetorian guard likewise was corrupted in imperial Rome.
Both were eventually dissolved.
The CIA is not indestructible.
You are right. Much of the government runs on automatic. The permanent employees of the big agencies, especially State, CIA, and the EPA, consider the President and his appointees to be the “temporary help,” or so I’ve been told. If they have to, they just wait them out. That’s why presidents have such a hard time changing directions and policies.
What is that wild animal who never changer his spots – help me – was it an elephant (in the room) ?
I have a lousy memory.
The same pickle factory sodomites cue the on again off again strait problems. Easy peasy. On cue September troubles, tank the market. Rinse, repeat with Warsh set to raise rates. Mid Terms.
The 6 eyes deliberately provoked Russia. The truth has no agenda. No one in the USIC is above criticism. The truth MUST be told.
Radcliffe is the titular head of the CIA but all the Brennanites still in place are likely calling all the shots. 🤔😠
Typical of the narrative. The Russians are incapable of training their own soldiers using veterans of that conflict, so have to rely on Western soldiers who’ve probably have nowhere near the accumulated experience the Russians have amassed.
Same with the precision missile strikes, attributed of course to NK missiles. Russia, whatever the outcome of the conflict, will never be allowed to take any credit for its successes. Same as the narrative after WW2, where their defeat of the vast bulk of the German forces was due to German mistakes, Allied assistance, the weather etc, anything but the Russians actually beating them.
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Russia can’t even take credit for the fine athletes playing in the U.S. Open on their behalf . . .
At Wimbledon this summere, the Russia atheletes were allowed to participate but NOT under a Russian flag or acknowledgement of their country. It was disgusting.
I wouldn’t trust anything newsworthy coming out of the Daily Rag….. they are leftist Celebrity propaganda machine.
First: it’s the Daily Mail. England’s NY Times.
Second: it says “training Russians”. It didn’t say Russian soldiers.
Training Russians could mean all kinds of things.
*Google says the DM is right-leaning. Maybe not as much as the Guardian but it still seems liberal to me.
Whatever side they are on they mostly tell us how much the house costs for the subject of the article.
Google is lying. The Guardian is almost totally left wing- after Glenn Greenwald left.
Be careful of AI generated answers. I’m finding high percentage of lies.
Kooect John.
We do not have ONE newspaper in Britain (or anywhere in Europe) which tells any semblance if truth.
A bit like America.
Hopefully they are being trained in behind-the-lines asymmetric warfare. They already know how to hack. They know how to kill and bomb.
Makes me wonder who those two people are. If Z is just a puppet, then it makes me think there is someone else intended by that comment than Putin vs Z.
Putin and King Charles
Don’t make me vomit.
“King” Jug Ears has no say in anything, ask his second wife.
“Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler”: In May 2014, then-Prince Charles made this remark to Marienne Ferguson, a Jewish WWII survivor, during a private conversation in Canada.
This triggered a diplomatic row, with Vladimir Putin later calling the comment “unacceptable” and “not what monarchs do.”
In this case the King represents GB to the Russians and the Russians are well aware the prime mover/instigator of NATO agression has been and still is GB.
And just this year…
In April–May 2026, following Charles’s address to the US Congress calling for the defence of Ukraine (he never named Russia), Putin’s propaganda apparatus launched a coordinated campaign:
Finally and most importantly Great Britian is now portrayed as the Russian peoples greatest enemy……not the USA.
The King doesn’t seem like he is going to last much longer.
Seems first comment. Answers it
Why doesnt President Trump ever address this issue. Many MAGA people also don’t believe President Trump is truly controlling the US government. Its like the elephant in the room but the President doesnt seem to acknowledge it.
Those that “don’t believe President Trump is controlling the government” are not MAGA. They must be the disruptor calling themselves “America First”, but really just creating division and helping the DSA.
Not really.
This new Gallup Poll from 8 days ago says that 89% of American’s believe the government is corrupt.
That is almost ALL of us.
Gallup even says that there is broad agreement on this. So what is actually uniting us all right now is that we nearly ALL can see this obscene level of corruption.
It’s the corruption that has brought us to this place of things being so bad that the President can’t even control it all.
So this isn’t about fake America Firsters trying to sow division, nearly all of us see this corruption and know it’s so bad that we’re really in quite a mess.
It’s not being divisive to state this fact.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/713933/record-high-say-government-corruption-widespread.aspx
Who believes Gallup poll???
If we’re going to believe nothing, than what are we believing in?
I’ve heard this poll cited over and over again on 4 different talk radio programs that I have going all day.
The point here is that how corrupt this government is is not secret at all and that damn near all of us see it.
Wrong. The president is only one branch of our government and in that context he can not control the government. All of the people who fault PDJT for not implementing the MAGA agenda, they really don’t understand the limitations a president is working under.
So, in your opinion Val1, anyone who realizes that federal courts, congress, and the Supreme court, all have power to block any presidential actions, and do on a regular basis, is not a supporter of MAGA because they understand our constitution?
Trump himself has commented about situations where he has no options for control, because he is NOT a king. So is Trump himself creating division and helping the DSA?
He can’t. He would lose any and all leverage with other countries if he actually admitted he was not in control,
if indeed, that is the case. IMO.
Maybe he is and we don’t know.
His job is not to control the government just the executive branch.
Many many multitudes of MAGA think he’s doing the incredible job for what he’s got to work with.
The USIC is part of the Exec branch … its supposed to be anyway … thus the problem …
Thank you, yes, supposed to be. As we’ve learned here it’s become it’s own power.
I’ve got to believe that the work Tulsi/Sundance has been doing didn’t go for nothing.
Maybe I’m too hopeful.
It never became anything that it wasn’t right from the get go…..a branch of MI6, which has always served the European monarchs…who are immune from prosecution for any and all crimes, no matter how heinous under international (British) law.
The IC is above the law because their masters are above the law.
He is controlling most of the Executive Branch except the DOJ, FBI, and IC. Soon, he may be running most of the blue states after he pulls federal money from them for not cooperating in investigations.
Has the C.I.A. been out of control since its founding…or at least not long afterward?
The Kennedy Assassination followed by Jack Ruby killing Oswald reeked of an inside fix in 1963 and has continued to reek!
Too many Deep State elements in the C.I.A. right now: how will it be tamed?
How wealthy are long-time bureaucrats in the C.I.A.?
That could be a starting point!
We all have opinions. Some directors stand out more than others. Some are in control even after they leave the agency (ie. Dulles). They have the ability to get things done, self funding and are not accountable…bill
The CIA is not the solution to our problems, the CIA is the problem.
President Trump hasn’t said, the Secretary of State hasn’t said, the envoys haven’t said that the CIA Directory will be taking a bigger role.
This is a wedge being driven between President Trump and President Putin.
I think that President Trump and President Putin know a wedge when they see one.
Wedgies are easy to notice.
Also very easy to manufacture.
Our “our government is here to help……no thank you.
If Russians find no value in “small talk” and Putin, Witkoff and Kushner engaged in such banter, then, obviously, Putin found some sort of value in the approach.
Hmm. What could that be? Missile co-ordinates?
Missile coordinates, drone factory locations, identities of CIA insiders known by Russia to be working contrary to Trump (or being insiders to the many assassination attempts on Trump)…there are LOTS of things I can put on that list.
Remember: The President can’t commit Teason. Although he cold impeached. Again.
Is this the same John Ratcliffe who wouldn’t release information to clear Trump in his first term?
Maybe there is a reason for that, which we do not know about.
Romans 8:28 – And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Ephesians 1:11 – In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Foolish
With more info less foolish
Putin probably relishes the opportunity to talk with Ratcliffe. One spook to the other. He is former KGB afterall.
To juxtapose an old Papal quote on the media: a drop of truth in a pitcher of poison.
I’m surprised there is no mention here of China in this piece by Sundance.
We also know that the President really wants to put China back on rice.
The sanctions on Russia have forced Russia to probably do more business with China than they’d like to do, that then contributes to growing China.
So to solve all this, then the sanctions can be lifted, this frees up Russia to make other choices that they like much better, this then adds to what POTUS is trying to do with China.
So if he can do all this and land a success, I see it as a Twofer because of what this all then also adds to his goals for reducing China back down to size.
Anything important with artic melting and more shipping lanes
“arctic melting” is that yet another Earth day prediction?
I can see PTrump wanting to make Russia the premier economy of Western Eurasia, with much of that economy tied up in trade with the US. That would have the consequence of reducing China to a regional power whose main competition would be India, not the US.
A US-Russia economic team would indeed be beneficial to the world at large.
The EU and Canada can then go pound sand.
I agree Ogre.
And because of the demographic crisis in China from their one child policy, so bad I’ve read it cannot be reversed, I’d say that in the long run, India wins simply because they don’t have that demographic problem.
I suppose my question would be, is CIA Director Ratcliffe in control of the USIC and all the downstream institutions???
NO
Notwithstanding the assertion that Russians don’t do “small talk” Putin et al understand the theater of public relations and Western media editing visual imagery into 90 second soundbites and visuals for their short-attention audiences. So my sense is that the small talk critique is merely playing the western media as needed.
The more fundamental issue, as I noted previously, is the Trumpian determination for triangulation redux:
“Triangulation Redux – At the height of the Cold War – Nixon and Kissinger unveiled the modern version of triangulation diplomacy to counter the Russian threat. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_diplomacy)
Trump and Rubio et al seem to have massaged the strategy, included the ambivalence that former NATO/EU allies pose as well as the Ukraine imbroglio. Now it is China that is the major threat to the U.S. and Russian has become the leverage fulcrum to end China’s ascendancy. Awareness of history at play, much to the bafflement of so much of our media and politicians on the left.”
Realpolitik involves macro components, which come with all their attendant warts and flaws, but nonetheless are the necessary components for fundamental change. Putin is a thug, a KBG Colonel and ruthless dictator capable of betrayal and double-dealing on every level. He is also a Russian patriot, and besides hating the grand outcome of the Cold War and the interregnum disasters that befell the Soviet Union post break-up, he is also a realist. Russia is sliding into a vassal relationship with China, and Putin recognizes that the Ukraine War has vastly over-extended his national resources, quickening the decline. A U.S. reset, with the economic and security benefits it would provide, would restore Russia into a more normal relationship with the USA and the Old World West, at least culturally and perhaps in time socially. Russia sees itself as A European nation, not an Asian one fundamentally. So to that end, he is likely to behave relatively well, to sustain the advantages a re-alignment of the World Order that reconciliation with the US would offer.
It is a big lift, a world altering one akin to the post WWII Us emergence as a superpower and economic engine of the world (before we batered it away in our arrogance and shortsighted certainty nothing woud change) But Trump, for all his faults, sees himself as bold and insightful enough to pull it off! I for one, hope he can.
The realignment should have been made soon after the dissolution of the USSR. NATO should have been disbanded. We missed our chance then, and I have always wondered why. Maybe George H.W. didn’t want it.
He didn’t. He was on the globalist’s A list — a guy they could count on. NATO is one of their sources of strength.
He may be a thug, however it was NATO who lied about not expanding. Action speak louder than words.
We have arrived at the moment of truth. A geopolitical singularity.
let us pray for Ratcliffe now also. Prayer is our weapon of choice . It is powerful!!!
The Financial Times said so?
Whatever.
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Trump, like all politicians, has a limited amount of political clout. He must battle issues in order of need.
Almost the whole world is against what Trump represents. And the big moment that determines success is the midterm.
USSR was the enemy of all. Most Americans never got the message that Putin’s Russia is not the USSR. The Ukraine war was brilliantly framed as defending the world from the Russians/USSR. That is why Russia, Russia, Russia worked in the first term. It is not that Trump is lacking in control, it is that he is lacking in clout. Winning the midterm provides the clout. Win the midterm and Canada settles, Iran folds, Cuba begs, and EU is broken.
And we win the midterms if we get out and vote.
There are more of us than there is of them.
Yes there will be cheating. But our numbers still tip the balance. Additionally, some changes and reductions in their cash streams have made their cheating harder to accomplish.
Anyone who doesn’t vote is beyond stupid.
At $4.00 a gal for gas and a Senate that doesn’t care if we burn to the ground, it’s going to be a heavy lift.
Ah yes – but who counts the votes? after a couple of weeks delay
Verrrrrry interrrrresting.
Victor Davis Hanson’s take on the Ratcliffe trip to Moscow is interesting. He said it was in response to Russia’s threat to use nuclear weapons in response to some Ukraine (read NATO) attacks, and that Ratcliffe bluntly warned of a U.S. response.
Do I know whether that’s accurate? Heck, no.
No, Hanson’s way off in left field.
Russia: “Where are the hidden munitions sites in Ukraine?”
USA: “awhere are the hidden munitions sites in Iran?”
It’s reasonable to assume that Ratcliffe’s counterpart in Russia has information on CIA covert operations-information that Ratcliffe himself isn’t fully aware of.
Witkoff and Kushner will continue their duties as emissaries because they are doing a great job. They will now have the added benefit of info gleaned by Ratcliffe.
The end result of all of the above very well could be “tangible actions the United States could take.”
Yes this is it. Putin will give Ratcliffe a test case to measure his and VSG’s sincerity, perhaps concrete examples of US operatives doing the exact reverse opposite of what Ratcliffe and VSG want, and then see what those two do about it.
The economic exchange would likely involve American expertise co-developing Russian resources in return for getting some of the output.
I would much rather be tied in with Russia than with NATO/5 Eyes who are part of the the globalist’s wrecking crew.
Russia is culturally much like we used to be before the crazy left started changing the culture and illegals being ushered into the country.
IC is a cancer. Have grown too much and will kill the nation if not removed. There are 100 different ways to skin a cat sort of speak. AI technology has also changed the playing field. What the IC specializes the most is leveraging human vulnerability as a weapon to control an outcome. Remove that ability and they’re done because they’re not even that good at intelligence for the benefit of the country.
IC is connected at the hip with the biggest companies in the defense industry including consultants and think tanks that give $$$ to both political parties in Congress.
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Ratcliffe could take a larger role in the negotiations, while Witkoff and Kushner apparently remain involved.
Great analysis. We will soon see how it plays out. Vlad knows things.
“Obviously, President Trump would counter that he was in control of the USIC and all the downstream institutions, but Putin would be incredulous to the possibility. History is on the side of Putin and DNI Gabbard could only achieve so much.”
This makes sense. Russia is closing in on Ukraine so surrender is a distinct possibility. If that happens before the US midterm, then the media runs with “Trump lost Ukraine”. But in that scenario hasn’t Trump at least weakened the the IC – especially financially and their ability to act through EU proxies?
The “Trump lost the Ukraine” narrative was floated in Alex of the Duran’s video today.
He’s the one in cahoots with Robert Barnes, MTG, Tucker, Alex Jones, Thomas Massie, and the rest of the globalist/hate-Trump brigade.
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Isn’t it the globalist that want the war in Ukraine to continue. The people you listed want the war to end? 🙄
Paid pundits. They say what those who pay them want said,
Please try to pay attention, eh?
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I have never seen Scott Ritter on fire about all this until…
Scott Ritter: US-Russia Negotiations Are Dead & the Leipzig Drone Attack was a False Flag
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Thanks, Dmaw, I’ll check it out as soon as time permits.
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“Obviously, President Trump would counter that he was in control of the USIC and all the downstream institutions,
but Putin would be incredulous to the possibility.”
i stumbled over that a bit, too.
PT talks to an extraordinary amount of people in all walks of life.
monarchs, star athletes, tech giants, titans of industry, heads of state,
housekeepers, construction workers, plumbers, waste management contractors,
any and everyman U.S.A. (which i think he prefers 😁.)
the one thread that consistently runs through these reported conversations with citizen
OR President Trump, is that the person invariably says, “well, he asked me about ‘X’
and what i thought about it” (meaning whatever topic was at hand.)
PT is eliciting information by doing this, and slotting it in to his overall assessment of any given issue.
it is an extremely valuable approach to confirm what you know or alert you to something you didn’t know!
therefore, i would envision PT’s response to PVP to be more along the lines of :
“interesting – what makes you say that?” or “can you elaborate on the reasons ?”
not confrontational (i don’t think PT’s ego is as big as advertised, rather a tool used to his advantage),
just eliciting information.
all of this is armchair speculation obviously, and probably doesn’t make a bit of difference,
but i don’t think PT would use his phone time with PVP for any knee jerk defensiveness,
rather, as a master negotiator, i think he would at all times be trying to discover
what makes Vlad tick. 😆
above all, i hope this resolves to PT’s specs – whatever that looks like, i’m good with that.
methinks this is going to get very interesting in the next 60 days.
Trump to Putin: “hold my beer…”
This kind of analysis is what makes this site so valuable.
Again, Sundance explains. Thank you. Financial Times is trying to create problems and confusion like all MSM. President Trump will continue to endeavor to help stop this war. CIA will try to intrude.
Sounds like the whole world, including us, would be much happier if we did some extreme gutting and reorganizing of the alphabet agencies.
The CIA is the daughter of Operation Paperclip.
Nazi culture
There was an estimated 40-50,000 Paperclipped into the United States.
Canada and South America, too.
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The CIA is only the US tentacle of the global control octopus. While the CIA may have its funds and US direction attenuated it still lives on with its other active tentacles (4 eyes+).
If Zed was removed with extreme prejudice (as is his due) what would Ukraine do?
We could easily find out.
Uh Oh …of course, it was those pesky ole Russians again. HA
Zelensky’s plane was reportedly nearly hit by a drone while taking off from Moldova.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre says the incident happened yesterday as Zelensky was flying to Oslo for the funeral of King Harald V, with the aircraft narrowly avoiding what was described as a Russian drone threat.
A reminder that for Zelensky, even traveling to a state funeral can turn into a security operation.
Poor Ellensky.
Trying once again to attach importance to himself and stay relevant.
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I got got as far as Financial Times. Confirmed BS
Radcliffe is one of them against President Trump. It took Tulsi to bust open the CIA operations against President Trump. Radcliffe has done nothing. Radcliffe pretty much sat on his hands and watched during President Trump’s first term.
always bet on war and inflation. you cant lose.
European politicians told to prepare for a long Ukrainian conflict, after Trump call with Putin.
Russia manufactures approximately 7 million artillery, mortar, tank, and rocket rounds annually.
More fake news; this time out of Moldova.
All the mainstream fake news outlets are carrying the story.
Apparently, the drone from Leipzig, Germany is at it again; this time in Moldova for yet another false flag event.
And, yes, Russia Russia Russia is getting the blame for this one, too!
Those pesky Russians and their crappy drones . . .
LOL
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16118621/Zelensky-plane-hit-drone-King-Norway-funeral.html
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Putin is 100% correct about the CIA. Neither Trump nor Ratcliffe have control of the CIA. The CIA is the biggest threat to peace in the world and has been for decades.
With three assassination attempts under his belt I suspect that President Trump would agree with you!
The Clowns In America have done nothing to prevent the US from the consequences of war or communism.
The CIA was set up from it’s inception to be unaccountable.
The CIA is specifically authorized to commit illegal and immoral activities and lie about them. It has it’s own sources of financing independent from Congressional appropriations.
Unaccountability is the “firewall” that provides distance and deniability to Congress and POTUS.
The political branches let themselves avoid taking blame for the actions of the IC because the political branches don’t control the IC.
(A very similar unaccountable, blame-avoidance mechanism is built into the Federal Reserve.)
If the President does not fully control the CIA (or other IC agencies) does a temporary political appointee of the President (like Radcliffe) really control it either? Both will be gone in two years. The IC will wait them out.
The branches of government created a monster they cannot control.
Pray 🙏 unceasingly
And PRAY for DISCERNMENT of the Received Information
I have no doubt that Sundance is correct about the CIA. But the CIA does not operate without somebody calling the shots. Who is that? If it’s not Ratcliffe, then who is in control?
Since his 1st mandate President Trump has wanted an improved relationship with Russia but Obama et al interfered and blocked that. Americans in general were open to better relations with Russia (Hillary’s bs “reset” to sell our Uranium). The geopolitically informed saw the importance of keeping Russia from an alliance with China. Biden (Obama 3rd term) solidified the alliance America didn’t want. Did Biden bungle his way into that? Who knows. Now untangling this mess while trying to “drain the swamp” is a tall order and the “Indians are getting restless”. That said, we MUST keep the House and Senate (plug your nose) and VOTE, getting as many to vote with us as possible.
The Russians aren’t coming but our “Allies” would love nothing better than for us to believe it.
Putin explains (total length of clip is 1m49s):
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1642104575481065474/pu/vid/640×360/vEUzIiWUOldcYFgK.mp4?tag=12
To see this video I had to copy & paste the link above into a new tab manually — does not appear to work if clicked on directly within this comment — I just tested this; 10Sep2026, c. 02:25am PDT.
Putin explains ( at c. 0m18s ): “Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie…These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration. Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony.”
Thank you, Sundance, for the excellent reporting and analysis.
MAGA.
I sometimes wonder if the CIA can control the CIA and the 17 other spy agencies. I would think that if the CIA were in control, they would have killed Trump already by now. Trump is attempting to deal a death blow to the City of London, which has worked hand in glove with the CIA since 1947.
I think what Sundance has suggested is brilliant.
Trump appears on the cusp of preventing mass mail in ballots. What will the CIA do now if they do not have the mail in ballots to rig the election?
So, Bill Pulte becoming head of the CIA after Radcliffe suddenly steps down?