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The US is Signaling Withdrawal in Ukraine

7 min readApr 18, 2025

The US Secretary of State, in a conversation with the NATO Secretary General, confirmed that if a clear path to peace does not emerge shortly, “the US will withdraw from its mediation efforts to establish peace”.

This is not a surprise. I have been expecting this for some time. This administration lacks the patience, diplomatic acumen, and understanding of the situation. Plus, let's be honest, they want Russia to win.

There are other ways we know this. And in normal times, this would also be a national scandal. This is but one more reminder that we are not living in normal times:

Elon Musk-led US DOGE department is suspected of organizing a large-scale leak of confidential databases to unknown recipients from Russia, — Militarnyi

Cybersecurity expert and security developer at the National Labor Relations Board Berulis informed the US Congress about a covert cyber operation against his department, which was organized by the DOGE government efficiency department.

To do their job, employees of Musk’s department used external tools that are not usually used in government agencies, for example, to automate requests and bypass restrictions.

Security officers at the National Council noticed strange activity: about 10 GB of data was downloaded from the…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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