CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s secret trip to Moscow involved telling one of Vladimir Putin’s top officials that Russia needs to end the war in Ukraine before its economic situation worsens, according to a report.Ratcliffe met with Aleksandr Bortnikov, director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (F
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🇷🇺 Russia: Poland is crossing the line. If necessary, it would take us just three days to reach Warsaw.
🇵🇱 Poland: You couldn’t even reach Kyiv in three years, and now you’re talking about Warsaw? Come to our border and see how long your tanks last.
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El Vicepresidente de Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 durante el primer mandato de Donald Trump 🇺🇸, Mike Pence, afirma que la mejor manera de evitar que Vladimir Putin 🇷🇺 ataque a la OTAN es mediante la determinación:
“¿Realmente se enfrentaría Putin a la OTAN?
Mi Respuesta: Si Putin percibe debilidad, por supuesto que Sí. Es por esto que es la hora de mostrar la fuerza de Estados Unidos.”
A su vez, cita este párrafo del artículo del WSJ: “Trump podría mostrar resolución cancelando ruidosamente las retiradas de tropas de Europa y señalando más apoyo para Ucrania y las líneas del frente de la OTAN.”
Mike Pence 🇺🇸 también ha pedido a Donald Trump 🇺🇸 y a los aliados de la OTAN que envíen de forma urgente los misiles interceptores que tanto necesita Ucrania 🇺🇦 para contrarrestar los ataques aéreos rusos 🇷🇺.
JD Vance está ocupando ahora su lugar.
— @CasetaBosque Aug 29, 2026
Former CIA officer for PAP (Polish News) on DCIA Moscow Visit: “Ratcliffe’s warning will be effective only if it has teeth.”
The visit of CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Moscow is a good step, but only the first step, and the warning given to Russia will only work if it is concrete and “will have teeth”, Sean Wiswesser, a former high-ranking CIA officer and author of a book about Russian services, told PAP.
⚠️Reports that Ratcliffe warned Russia against provocations or an attack on NATO are a good sign suggesting a more firm policy of the current US administration towards Russia, and the CIA director was a good person to convey this message, per Wiswesser, given that Russia is a security-service driven state.
According to Wiswesser, the current wave of action below the threshold of war is controlled by the Russian services. Reports from Germany about a drone with an explosive charge found by a Ukrainian transport plane at the airport in Leipzig, are reportedly linked by intelligence services to the Russian military intelligence of the GRU. “The thugs who lead the Russian services go out of their way to impress their boss, Putin,”-said the expert.
Wiswesser assessed that the visit itself is a signal that the administration in Washington takes the threat to the Alliance seriously.
It is crucial, in his opinion, whether the warning given to Russia was specific. Wiswesser recalled the previous publicly known visit of the head of service in Moscow, Bill Burns, in 2021, when the previous administration tried to dissuade Russia from plans to invade Ukraine but it was not taken seriously, the warning lacking “teeth.”
Link to the article for more below….and kudos to Oskar Górzyński, PAP Korespondent, DC. Poles are great allies to the U.S. and NATO, was honored for the interview.
👉I again stressed we need more pushback on Russia and more support to Ukraine.
#Russia #ForeignPolicy #Poland #NATO
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pap.pl/aktualnosci/byly-ofic…— @Wiswesser Aug 29, 2026
Declassified CIA files keep reminding us how far intelligence agencies once pushed Cold War experimentation. MKULTRA isn’t conspiracy theory. Parts of its disturbing history are documented fact. theintercept.com/2026/04/26/… #CIA #coldwar #NationalSecurity
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🚨Update: CIA Director John Ratcliffe flew to Moscow and threatened Russia if they didn’t back off Ukraine. Instead Russia is destroying Kiev and will soon launch a nuke to take out the rest of the country.
— @defense_civil25 Aug 29, 2026
⚡️Zelensky calls for Ukraine to launch 1,000 drones at Russia daily.
President Volodymyr Zelensky called for Ukraine to increase the frequency of its long-range drone strikes against Russia on Aug. 28, setting a goal of launching 1,000 drones a day.
— @KyivIndependent Aug 29, 2026
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov visited Washington, D.C. today where information sharing with his U.S. counterparts is expected to be at the forefront of his visit. Fedorov, who was ousted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky due to intra-governmental and defense ministry conflicts, is expected to share much of his knowledge of Ukraine’s ability to adapt to battlefield conditions by mobilizing the defense industrial base and creating flexibility within industry during a conflict characterized by large-scale conventional operations.
— @sentdefender Aug 29, 2026
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