An Attempt to Understand a Strange Visit to Moscow
- On Aug. 25, CIA Director John Ratcliffe arrived in Moscow via Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III to meet with Aleksander Bortnikov, head of the FSB, regarding the Ukraine war.
- Reports of planned SCALP cruise missile blueprint sharing by Britain prompted concerns that Russia may test the NATO alliance and pressure Western economies by threatening Baltic states.
- The U.S. maintains about 80,000 troops in Europe and about 10,000 in Poland, while Germany is permanently deploying its 45th armored brigade to Lithuania with 5,000 personnel expected operational by 2027.
- Russian ally Belarus conducted readiness exercises as President Alexander Lukashenko visited Russian President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 29, underscoring Belarus's strategic importance for operations near Poland.
- Rumors suggest Putin may receive inaccurate information regarding Ukraine, or that segments of Russian intelligence seek to end the war, though these claims remain speculative and difficult to verify.
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The CIA's John Ratcliffe Goes to Moscow
Last Monday the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (DCI) John Ratcliffe and his retinue boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews airfield in Maryland, stopped presumably to refuel at the Riga airport in NATO member Latvia, and then flew on to land at Vnukovo International Airport, one of the […]
After the visit of CIA chief John Ratcliffe to Moscow, new details of his mission become known.
An Attempt to Understand a Strange Visit to Moscow
On Aug. 25, CIA Director John Ratcliffe landed in Moscow for talks on the Ukraine war. It was a meeting meant to be noticed; he traveled on a U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III, a heavy military transport plane, thus not being particularly subtle. These kinds of meetings have taken place before, most recently just before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. During that meeting, Washington warned Moscow not to invade, demonstrating that the …
Ukrainian diplomat's version.
The CIA's John Ratcliffe Goes to Moscow - LewRockwell
Last Monday the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (DCI) John Ratcliffe and his retinue boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews airfield in Maryland, stopped presumably to refuel at the Riga airport in NATO member Latvia, and then flew on to land at Vnukovo International Airport, one of the […]
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