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The second thought was a byproduct of the first. The prospect of sudden escalation reminded me of a podcast conversation I listened to seven weeks into the war—a conversation that left me more worried than ever that American foreign policy is not in capable hands. The killing of Dugina, in a roundabout way, corroborates that worry.
The conversation was between Ryan Evans, host of the War on the Rocks podcast, and Derek Chollet, who, as Counselor of the State Department, reports directly to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Chollet was recounting diplomatic discussions between Moscow and Washington that had taken place before the invasion. He said something that had never before been officially confirmed: The US had refused to negotiate with Russia about…
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Natalia Shaban / Vovk entered Russia and left to Estonia with a false Kazakh passport. I am convinced of the involvement, at least technical, of Western agencies in the assassination of Daria Platonova. That terrorist operation is part of a NATO asymmetric strategy, like nuclear threat in Energodar and sabotages in Crimea, while Ukraine has lost the war on the battlefield