{"id":1543698,"date":"2025-06-25T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1543698"},"modified":"2025-06-25T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:20:00","slug":"trumps-disbanding-of-a-secret-deep-state-working-group-raises-hopes-of-peace-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/trumps-disbanding-of-a-secret-deep-state-working-group-raises-hopes-of-peace-with-russia\/1543698\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Disbanding Of A Secret “Deep State” Working Group Raises Hopes Of Peace With Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump’s Disbanding Of A Secret “Deep State” Working Group Raises Hopes Of Peace With Russia<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Its inter-agency members sought to sabotage the Russian-US rapprochement…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Reuters<\/a>\u00a0reported in mid-June that the Trump Administration had recently disbanded a secret inter-agency working group overseen by now-dismissed National Security Council members tasked with formulating strategies for coercing Russia into concessions to Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to their three unnamed US official sources, Trump\u2019s hitherto refusal to escalate American involvement in the conflict led to this initiative losing steam, though he could still potentially reverse gears in the future.<\/p>\n

At any rate, what\u2019s most significant about Reuters\u2019 report is that it confirms that a secret group of officials from the US\u2019 permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies (\u201cdeep state\u201d) was set up to manipulate Trump into pressuring Russia<\/strong>, which could have worsened tensions had it succeeded. Just as significantly, however, was its failure to do so thus far. Nevertheless, the plans that they devised could still be implemented by subversive deep state elements and therein lies the problem.<\/p>\n

According to Reuters, \u201cIdeas ranged from tailored economic deals designed to peel some countries out of Russia’s geopolitical orbit to covert special operations efforts\u201d<\/strong><\/em>, the first scenario of which included a proposal to \u201cincentivize\u201d Kazakhstan into cracking down on Russia\u2019s evasion of Western sanctions. That country has been drifting Westward for some time already, which could pose challenges for Russia and China as explained\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0in summer 2023, but it doesn\u2019t appear that anything came from that scheme.<\/p>\n

The second scenario, however, might have speculatively been connected to Ukraine\u2019s strategic drone strikes against Russia in early June. No one can say for certain\u00a0whether or not Trump knew about this<\/a>\u00a0in advance, but Reuters\u2019 revelation about the existence of this previously unreported \u201cdeep state\u201d working group lends credence to those of his supporters who claimed that he didn\u2019t. After all, it\u2019s entirely possible that this was orchestrated by them without his knowledge, which he\u00a0might have told Putin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the possibility that these \u201ccovert special operations efforts\u201d included the\u00a0two false flag plots in the Baltic Sea<\/a>\u00a0that Russia\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Service recently warned about. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Although they claimed that these are joint British-Ukrainian efforts, it can\u2019t be ruled out that the aforementioned subversive \u201cdeep state\u201d elements within that working group could have either played a role in their planning and\/or might have had a detailed plan ready for pressuring Trump into escalating against Russia afterwards.<\/p>\n

This secret \u201cdeep state\u201d inter-agency working group\u2019s disbandment therefore raises hopes of peace with Russia and might partially account for the Trump Administration\u2019s latest pragmatism towards it. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The Secretary of Defense\u00a0recently announced<\/a>\u00a0that aid for Ukraine will be slashed in the next budget while the Secretary of the Treasury\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0against new anti-Russian sanctions. Trump then\u00a0opposed<\/a>\u00a0more such sanctions at the G7,\u00a0blocked<\/a>\u00a0efforts to lower the Russian oil price cap, and\u00a0stood up<\/a>\u00a0Zelensky.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s premature to celebrate the preceding moves since Trump could always flip-flop on his own or be\u00a0manipulated into escalating<\/a>, they\u2019re nevertheless positive developments for peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether he\u2019ll stay the course, but what\u2019s important is that he\u2019s back to his pragmatic approach that was briefly disrupted by a\u00a0period of angry posts<\/a>\u00a0about Putin.<\/p>\n

The best-case scenario is that he proudly defies the \u201cdeep state\u201d by\u00a0finally coercing Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0into Russia\u2019s demanded concessions for peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 06\/25\/2025 – 16:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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