In this evening’s edition of The Great Game political talk show, which we may take as representative of Kremlin thinking, they finally discussed an issue that has attracted the close attention of commentators in the United States and Europe for several days: that there are sharply divergent views within Trump’s circle of foreign policy formulators and implementers with regard to what the end game in the Russia-Ukraine war should look like. On one side of the issue stand General Kellogg, Trump’s initial appointee as envoy to the warring parties, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. On the other side stand Steve Witkoff, whom Trump made his chief negotiator with the Russians, and Trump himself.
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