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The transcript of a leaked phone conversation between President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, and a Kremlin adviser—published in Wednesday’s Bloomberg News —might stand as the most remarkable security breach of the year, in several ways. And the document proves, once and for all, that in the negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, Witkoff is acting as a Russian tool.

First, Trump is left with two choices: to either fire Witkoff, who is not a formally appointed official anyway, or essentially confirm that he is acting as a Russian tool as well. The fact that Trump has decided to send Witkoff to Moscow for further talks in the coming days suggests the lat

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