Dearlove Spins Fantasies Abut Keeping NATO's Ukraine War Going

Aug. 16—Former MI6 Chief Richard Dearlove, one of the leading figures who orchestrated the “Russia, Russia, Russia” hoax which President Donald Trump rightly denounced as “very dangerous” for the United States, and the controller of Christopher Stelle, author of the discredited anti-Trump dossier, stated with great consternation on his “One Decision” podcast in the hours before the Alaska summit that he is “extremely worried” that some long-term peace deal might result. “I just don’t know what [Trump] is up to…. I just don’t get it…. An awful lot of people are worried.” He moaned that “we” thought we had something at the last NATO meeting with Trump, but now… Dearlove exclaimed that the Europeans are so upset they “are throwing the toys out of the pram!”

“Sir Russiagate” has no intention of surrendering, however. The British spymaster went on to outline key elements of a strategy to “save” NATO's war: He expects Germany to pick up the whole tab for financing Ukraine’s weapons, and their asset, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his team to make sure that the United States sells the weapons for Germany to then ship to Ukraine.

The Europeans are going to have to rally behind Zelenskyy, he argued. If the Germans really step up to the plate, they have the financial clout to back Ukraine, he pronounced. Germany has “the wealth and means necessary” to sustain Ukraine, if the Americans will sell them the weapons—and it seems to him that the U.S. will. “There certainly are people working for Rubio, whom I know, who have a completely different view of a settlement, and they are not going to sell Ukraine down the river,” Dearlove confided.

He forecasted that the summit meeting will not produce anything but “optics”: Russia will keep bombing Kyiv; Trump will get angry—and then come to his senses and see that “coercion” is the only way to deal with Putin. That means secondary economic sanctions, and enough military “kit” to give Ukraine the basis to hold “a realistic stalemate” on the battlefield (but not recover large amounts of territory, Dearlove admits).

One source commented that Dearlove, who is known the enjoy certain substances, might want to reduce his consumption before offering analysis.