US army secretary briefs ambassadors at ‘nightmare meeting’ in Kyiv on Friday after talks with Ukrainian leader

US officials have told Nato allies they expect to push president Volodymyr Zelenskyy into agreeing to a peace deal in the coming days, under the threat that if Kyiv does not sign, it will face a much worse deal in future.

The US army secretary, Dan Driscoll, briefed ambassadors from Nato nations at a meeting in Kyiv late on Friday, after talks with Zelenskyy and taking a phone call from the White House. “No deal is perfect, but it must be done sooner rather than later,” he told them, according to one person who was present.

The mood in the room was sombre, with several European ambassadors questioning the content of the deal and the way in which the US had conducted the negotiations with Russia without keeping allies informed.

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    Jesus christ the Trump rabbit hole is so deep we could mine for Uranium down there. It’s more holes than a Caribbean sponge, fuck me. Flood the zone indeed. They know we can’t keep track, because there’s so much of it, before we caught up to his crimes decades ago, he’ll already had a decade of new ones… In fact… Shit.

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      consider trump has been with the soviets since the late 80s, plus since nobody would loan him money since he stiffs banks, so only through DEUTSCHE BANK AND THE russians that were giving him money, and yes his casinos were involved in the laundering too. its also likely russian has the epstein files too, why not, because EPSTEin also deals with other people to blackmail them.

      tha

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        I have been doing a deep dive into Melania’s family origins and I have strong reason to suspect her father was if not directly KGB then most certainly an informer or asset. I believe she was recruited and assigned into a pool of women whose job it was to get in the circles of such people as Epstein and the likes, in order to latch on to potential targets over a long period of time.

        I mean it’s basic cold war stuff, I don’t know why people pretend like the cold war ended at all.