Opinion leaders in the U.S. and prominent MAGA voices took note that the most serious and provocative strike on Russian soil to date occurred just one day after former CIA Director Mike Pompeo (from Trump’s first administration) and U.S. Senators Blumenthal and Graham visited Kiev.

Given the well-documented and publicly acknowledged collaboration between American and Ukrainian intelligence services, Mike Benz poses what seems like a rhetorical question:

“Did no one in the U.S. intelligence apparatus really know this attack was coming?”

Ron Paul is baffled as to why U.S. Senators would undermine official U.S. foreign policy by urging Ukraine to keep fighting. Meanwhile, Steve Bannon did not hold back in his response to the staunchly Russophobic Graham, who declared that the U.S. would continue arming Ukraine and sanctioning Russia regardless of who occupies the White House—prompting Bannon to call for his arrest.

As we’ve speculated before in similar cases, this points to one of two scenarios:

1. The Trump administration is staging a “good cop, bad cop” routine—with Marco Rubio as the only Western leader offering condolences for the Bryansk rail terror attack victims, while Graham & Co. play the aggressors.

2. Donald Trump does not actually have control over his own government.

Neither scenario bodes well for the prospect of a peaceful resolution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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