Dexter Filkins
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521 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 16 Sep
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He's trying to make a deal with the Iranians, more or less simultaneously.
He's going around the Middle East, I think not physically, but he's basically inquiring of leaders in the Middle East, will you put some more money in my private equity fund?
And I think as it was put to me, and I think more of a kind of a thought experiment because this is a hard question to answer.
Was Jared basically looking to get rewarded?
Um, for, for what he was doing.
And in other words, okay, look, I've taken out the Iranian threat.
Now I want to be paid for it.
And, and that's the way it was put to me.
And it was put to me by somebody who is very close to works in the region, knows the leaders at the highest level in the Middle East said that to me was, was essentially like, wow, was this all a little bit, uh, more closely connected than, than it initially appeared.
Well, the diplomatic effort, the American diplomatic effort to end the war between Russia and Ukraine has been, I think it's fair to say, has been very unbalanced since the Trump administration, the second term began.
And it was basically Witkoff, Steve Witkoff.
Jared stayed home.
But it was Witkoff making repeated trip one after the other to Russia to meet Putin time and time again.
And at one point...
Wyckoff and Kushner came back with this diplomatic proposal that was essentially it was essentially like Russia's wish list.
And that's actually what Marco Rubio called it.
He said, well, it's Putin's wish list.
And the thing, you know, the thing collapsed.
But it's been it's been a very kind of Russia centric approach to the war.
What do you want?
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