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Kid Berwyn

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11. PNAC for Putin

Sun Jan 4, 2026, 10:45 AM

Jan 4

What Fiona Hill told the Brookings Institution:

I myself, back in 2019, had a rather bizarre experience when I was in government where the Russians proposed a swap for Ukraine and Venezuela. Suggesting that as Venezuela — we were having a crisis with Venezuela, at the time after Nicolas Maduro was, you know, basically trying to stay in power indefinitely — that if we pulled out of Ukraine, they would pull out of Venezuela where they’d sent in some security people to help prop up Maduro. And it just reinforced the way that they think. And we should not play into that way of thinking.

Source: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/putins-war-in-ukraine-a-conversation-with-fiona-hill-and-angela-stent/

And now that Trump has put We the People on the hook for Iran’s liberation, Bibi’s happy, too.

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