larry johnson tells you what he thinks about the orange man's chances of making peace with the putin;

I am stealing the title of Alastair Crooke’s recent post on Trump and Russia because that was the starting point of my interview with him this week. It is now up on Counter Currents and is embedded in this piece.

Here is his opening:

Trump’s rhetoric about Russia having lost 1 million men in the Ukraine conflict is not just nonsense — the real number not even reaching 100,000 — but his resort to it underlines that the usual meme of Trump being just woefully misinformed is looking less and less plausible.

After touting the 1 million Russian deaths, Trump then suggests that Putin is destroying Russia by not making a deal. Adding (seemingly as an aside), that Putin may have already made up his mind ‘not to make a deal’.

Instead, in a curiously disinterested way, Trump remarks that negotiations would depend entirely on whether Putin is interested or not. He further claims that Russia’s economy is in ruins, and most notably says that he would consider sanctioning or tariffing Russia, if Putin does not make a deal. In a subsequent Truth Social post, Trump writes, “I’m going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR”.

I stand by my conclusion that a major source of Trump’s false claims about massive Russian casualties and a woeful economy is the intelligence community–specifically, the CIA and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The bulk of the intelligence presented to President Trump in the Presidential Daily Brief comes from the CIA. However, the DNI has the responsibility for preparing and delivering that brief. Trump did not come up with this inaccurate information on his own. We have now former CIA Director, Bill Burns, on the record with the Washington Post’s David Ignatius making the following claim:..........more.........