Former U.S. Ambassador Chas Freeman, in an interview on Daniel Davis’s Deep Dive broadcast on Nov. 19, says nothing negative about Trump (he has in the past), but emphasizes Trump’s stated intent to stop the war against Russia. He says that Biden’s announcement that Ukraine can use U.S. long-range missiles to target deep into Russian territory is an attempt to shift the blame for the disaster in Ukraine. He says of U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (who claimed that the U.S. is not at war with Russia), that he is reminded of the Jesuits, who are excellent at lying, and that Sullivan is outright lying.
Freeman says that Putin is rational and cautious, but that if a number of Russians get killed in this process, the Russian President may have no option but to attack. He adds that there is no military rationale for this move by Biden, only political.
