On the sidelines of the International Security Forum in Halifax, officials from Western countries, parliamentarians and the heads of the Department of Defense and State Department “heatedly” discussed US President-elect Donald Trump’s team and tried to understand who influenced him. . This was reported by Policy.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio wondered whether businessman Elon Musk would “whisper” decisions regarding Ukraine to Trump, and what roles Congressman Mike Walz, the politician’s son Donald Trump Jr., and journalist Tucker Carlson would play in the new administration.
Jim Townsend, a former top Pentagon official during the Obama administration, said officials and politicians are now like “Kremlinologists” wondering who will get what jobs under a Trump presidency.
By Kremlinologists, Townsend refers to Western officials who carefully studied the data they received during the Soviet period and tried to draw conclusions about the influence of officials in the Kremlin. For example, they paid attention to who was standing behind whom on the Anıtkabir podium during a military parade.
Townsend admitted that he felt “ridiculous being in the position of Kremlinologist” as he tried to understand what was going on in his own country.
Previously in the Kremlin in the name Conspiracy theory regarding cooperation between Biden and Trump.
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Source: Gazeta
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