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The Last KGB Agent in Minsk

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the splurge of media covering Ukraine , the Zelinskiy / Trump phone call , that notorious ask for dirt on the Bidens by the POTUS, missed an incredibly obvious point. The detail most apparently missed by the mass media is the quite simple thought, that Ukraine's President did a "Columbo" number on the POTUS, and the possibility of that,  is both somewhat hilarious and intriguingly real . The man is an actor, his previous experience was not business or politics, his experience was in the theater of perception politics.  I do not think that Ukraine's president sees the Russian Federation's leadership as enemy, rather that they are powerful actors,  within the Geopolitical theater of the present moment. Yet if Trump is the friend of the President's Geopolitical opponent, what better way to disarm that friend of your opponent than by crippling him with an internal political uproar, that isn't quite permanently disabling , but it is another item, that be