The State Department’s internal intelligence agency reportedly expressed serious doubts earlier this year that Russian President Vladimir Putin would be willing to consider ending the war in Ukraine.
According to The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, analysts at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research concluded in multiple assessments and briefings that Putin had little incentive to negotiate peace, a stance that contradicted more hopeful assessments from the CIA.
The disagreement played out ahead of President Donald Trump’s August meeting with Putin in Anchorage, Alaska — an encounter that failed to produce progress toward peace.
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