CIA Dir. Ratcliffe's Moscow mission reportedly fails; Putin sees negotiations push as weakness

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BREAKING | 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦‼️‼️ CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s extraordinary mission to Moscow appears to have backfired, with Vladimir Putin reportedly reading Washington’s attempt to push him toward negotiations not as pressure, but as weakness. According to The Washington Post, Ratcliffe warned Russian intelligence officials that Moscow’s military and economic position would continue to deteriorate if the war dragged on and urged a return to negotiations. Instead, people familiar with the discuss