NYT пускат такива пикантерии, че трябва да седна да изчета целите експозета.
(Amazon ще каже, че практикувам hate watching
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The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership
This is the chaotic and previously untold story behind the past year of head-spinning headlines:
The Ukraine specialists at the Pentagon afraid to utter the word “Ukraine.” Mr. Trump telling his chosen envoy to Russia and Ukraine, “Russia is mine.” The secretary of state quoting from “The Godfather” in negotiations with the Russians. The Ukrainian defense minister pleading with the American defense secretary, “Just be honest with me.” A departing American commander’s “beginning of the end” memo. Mr. Zelensky’s Oval Office phone call, set up by the president, with a former Miss Ukraine.
This account draws on more than 300 interviews with national security officials, military and intelligence officers and diplomats in Washington, Kyiv and across Europe. Virtually all insisted on anonymity, for fear of reprisal from Mr. Trump and his administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... ussia.html
Много думи, препоръчвам да се изчете цялото.
Оказва се например, че ЦРУ участват в дронската кампания срещу руските рафинерии и заводи с разузнавателна информация с благословията на Тръмп.
As the campaign began to show results, Mr. Ratcliffe discussed it with Mr. Trump. The president seemed to listen to him; they had a frequent Sunday tee time. According to U.S. officials, Mr. Trump praised America’s surreptitious role in these blows to Russia’s energy industry. They gave him deniability and leverage, he told Mr. Ratcliffe, as the Russian president continued to “jerk him off.”...
Mr. Trump broke in.
Ukraine, he said, should not join NATO. (Mr. Kellogg advocated at least pausing such plans.)
He disliked Mr. Zelensky.
And then, addressing his special envoy: “Russia is mine, not yours,” one official recalled the president saying.
To which a bewildered Mr. Kellogg replied, “OK, you’re the president.”
A Hegseth loyalist at the conference, though, rendered it differently in messages to Washington, accusing Mr. Kellogg of claiming, “I’m holding the line against these isolationists in the administration.” This only cemented the envoy’s outsider status, as did a Fox News item juxtaposing his latest social media post about Mr. Zelensky (he was “the embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war”) with one from Mr. Trump (he was “a dictator without elections”).
Келог без да знае, е фигурант от самото начало - истинските "преговори" се водят от Тръмп, Виткоф и Кушнер, от него не зависи нищо.
Mr. Trump had made some things crystal clear: For all the help America had given the Ukrainians, it should get something in return.
On the golf course with Mr. Trump during the campaign, Senator Lindsey Graham had floated an idea. The South Carolina Republican had recently returned from Ukraine, where officials had given him a map of the country’s mineral riches. The senator recalls showing it to Mr. Trump, who proclaimed, “I want half.”
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What ensued might have been a set piece from a madcap diplomatic farce: the president’s men, rivalries on display, competing to see whose version of a deal would win over the Ukrainians — and Mr. Trump.
And it was his effort to have Ukraine investigate the Bidens that led to his first impeachment. In meetings, according to five aides, Mr. Trump would sometimes say of Mr. Zelensky, “He’s a motherfucker.”
It was in the midst of the talks that Mr. Trump made official Mr. Kellogg’s diminished role, posting on Truth Social that he was now “Special Envoy to Ukraine.” Mr. Kellogg would try to comfort the Ukrainians, counseling them to think of post-World War II Germany — divided between the U.S.-aligned West and the Soviet-aligned East. The Russians might get Crimea and large swaths of the east today, but in the future Ukraine could again be made whole.
The Americans might have been comfortable bullying the Ukrainians. But to get Mr. Putin to play, they felt they needed a softer approach.
At the first negotiating session, in February in Riyadh, Mr. Rubio had sought to break the ice.
He channeled his inner Brando. 
Sitting across from the foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, and the close Putin aide Yuri Ushakov, he offered
his rendition of the scene from “The Godfather” in which Vito Corleone counsels his son about threats from rival crime families and tells him: “I spend my life trying not to be careless. Women and children can be careless, but not men.” Nuclear powers, Mr. Rubio explained, need to communicate.
The energy strikes would come to cost the Russian economy as much as $75 million a day, according to one U.S. intelligence estimate. The C.I.A. would also be authorized to assist with Ukrainian drone strikes on “shadow fleet” vessels in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Gas lines would start forming across Russia.
Много такива епизоди, и за взводния дебил (това ходещо разочарование), двойното спиране на мунициите по грешка, "минералната сделка", "спирането на войната за 24 часа", целият цирк от вътре, базирано на 300 интервюта.
The tanker "Bella-1" is still being pursued by US forces after refusing to comply with their demands
🥴 "They look invincible," Trump told aides in May after seeing footage of a military parade in Moscow, - NYT
Май не си пиеш хапчетата за шизофрения. Както и да е. Честито на спечелилия, а загубилият да почерпи.
Kamala Harris’s Former National Security Adviser Urges Zelensky to Reject Trump’s Peace Plan — NYT