Witless Witkoff's performance has been problematic: communication failures that have confused allies and misled both sides about negotiating positions. Trump's advisers, who have little experience dealing with the Kremlin at war, have not understood major elements of Putin's maximialist demands.
"It’s excruciating to imagine how badly Trump’s diplomatic envoy, Steve Witkoff, an amateur out of his depth, misunderstood his last meeting with Putin in Moscow if he thought that the Alaska summit was going to be successful." - @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
The whole admin is problematic. Just looking thru the CIA purge...🤦. DOGE. ICE antics & secrecy. This is an admin of YES people, chosen & placed strategically to assuage & stroke the fragile ego of their holy leader. At least that's what the dumpster fire looks like to me 🤷♂️
System-level failure will occur at some point. It's going to be ugly.