Michael Weiss
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But privately, he's still trying to hold things together.
He doesn't believe in forfeiting NATO.
He doesn't have any illusions about who and what the Russians are.
He's described them as gangsters.
He's very hawkish on Russia.
This is not a mystery.
Vance is an isolationist, you know, very mobbed up with the Silicon Valley tech bros, Peter Thiel, the Koch brothers.
And now, you know, if you kind of do the Kremlin ology of the White House, what happens in order to get the Ukrainians to bully them into submission to agreeing to this framework, this Russian authored framework?
at least in principle, they dispatch Dan Driscoll, the Secretary of the Army, who has no business doing diplomacy, and he'll be the first to tell you that.
So Dan Driscoll was briefed by the CIA on the 13th.
Because he was going to Ukraine not to do this.
He was going to Ukraine to talk about military innovation and technology.
He's a drone guy.
Trump calls him the drone guy, right?
Now, why was he going to Ukraine to talk about this?
Because the Ukrainians are teaching us
How to modernize our own army and arsenal, right?
Because they've invented such cool suicide drones and missile systems, seaborne drones.
That's how they're hammering the Russians, both in their own territory and inside Russian territory.