Yet another take has been issued, and more alleged details, on\u00a0CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s Tuesday trip to Moscow, which took place amid great secrecy and still even days later has only been subject of immense speculation.<\/p>\n
Axios is reporting over the weekend that the CIA chief\u00a0proposed a trilateral meeting\u00a0<\/strong>between Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – when he met with top Kremlin intelligence officials but was not granted a direct meeting with Putin himself.<\/p>\n “Of course, President Putin is immediately briefed on everything,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry\u00a0Peskov said, calling the meeting\u00a0“a positive phenomenon”<\/strong>\u00a0while not giving additional details.<\/p>\n The war has quite obviously ramped up this summer, with tit-for-tat strikes expanding beyond just military and energy targets,\u00a0to include food and retailing companies<\/strong>, and increasingly even civilian neighborhoods.<\/p>\n According to some details via\u00a0Axios<\/a>:<\/p>\n Over in the Middle East, the Iran war has not gone well for Washington, and so the White House has recently pivoted back to seeking a war forward toward peace in Ukraine, needing a foreign conflict ‘win’.<\/p>\n However, US admin officials\u00a0have signaled<\/a>\u00a0they are not ready to force Ukraine into a ‘bad’ peace deal. Also according to Axios, “Zelensky’s chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov,\u00a0told local media<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday that\u00a0U.S.-mediated talks with Russia could resume in September<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n As for Trump, on Wednesday he told Glenn Beck in an interview: “We would like to see the Ukraine war end,” adding that his administration was\u00a0“working very hard to get that war ended<\/strong>.“<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/intelheads.jpg\")
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