Michael Gordon
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Trump Officials Debated War Plans on Unclassified Chat App
Signal is a popular app for holding private discussions, but national security experts say that government security procedures do not allow it to be used to convey classified information. The government has its own secure communications channels for that. The subject is likely to come up Tuesday when top Trump administration officials testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Musk Admits ‘Difficulty’ Running Businesses Amid DOGE Work
The purpose of the meeting is to sort of right the ship after that very fraught meeting between President Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Zelensky. The vibes are good. The proof will be in the pudding.
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Musk Admits ‘Difficulty’ Running Businesses Amid DOGE Work
The vibes are good. The proof will be in the pudding. What the Ukrainians have suggested in recent days is they're preparing to offer some sort of ceasefire that would apply to airstrikes involving Ukraine and Russia and perhaps attacks at sea. And indeed, they seem to have underscored that. the importance of that with a fairly sizable drone attack on Moscow overnight.
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Musk Admits ‘Difficulty’ Running Businesses Amid DOGE Work
And Secretary Rubio on the plane over here to Jeddah, he spoke to us just as we were landing. And he said he was hopeful there could be progress in this meeting today and that the hold on arms and intelligence to Ukraine would It was a pause that might soon be lifted.
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Musk Admits ‘Difficulty’ Running Businesses Amid DOGE Work
A ceasefire would be an initial step to lay the groundwork for prospective peace talks. It really couldn't be an end in itself, not as far as the U.S. is concerned, and not for the Ukrainians either. I mean, one reason those talks in the White House were so difficult is the Ukrainians want some sort of security guarantees. They note that
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Musk Admits ‘Difficulty’ Running Businesses Amid DOGE Work
The Russians seized Crimea in 2014 and then came back eight years later and launched a full-scale invasion of their country. So Zelensky's argument is Putin can't be trusted. And therefore, if there is to be a peace settlement, there has to be some sort of security guarantee or arrangement where the U.S. backstops British and French troops in Ukraine or something to make sure that agreement holds.
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Musk Admits ‘Difficulty’ Running Businesses Amid DOGE Work
The Americans today have been reluctant to provide it. So there are not only things that have to be done on the Ukrainian and Russian side to cement a peace, but there are things that have to be done on the West side as well.
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Musk Admits ‘Difficulty’ Running Businesses Amid DOGE Work
Well, Secretary Rubio is not here alone. The National Security Advisor
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Musk Admits ‘Difficulty’ Running Businesses Amid DOGE Work
mike waltz is here as well and they were also involved in the talks last month in riyadh with the russians so i think they do speak for the administration but one gets the sense that they're trying to make the policy work as effectively as possible and president trump at times can be a little unpredictable and he certainly speaks in harsher terms about the ukrainians so there's that to take into account but you have to assume they were sent here for a purpose
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Musk Admits ‘Difficulty’ Running Businesses Amid DOGE Work
And we'll just see at the end of the day what comes out of this.