"Gentlemen, you can't report in here! This is the press office!"
Ruth Deyermond
SCOOP: The Pentagon has banned journalists from its press office, designating it a classified space. The change creates a new barrier between journalists and the public affairs officers who have traditionally answered their questions.
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The Kremlin and the White House are so fixated on the idea that only great powers have agency that they're willing to destroy their countries' power to prove it.
American football songs: “Yay, we like our team! They’re good! Go team!”
British football songs: “Your granny has herpes, and she’d still be better than your striker.”
The change creates a new barrier compared with previous administrations, under which the office was an open room where reporters could stop by the desks of military public affairs officials without es...
Another line Putin is really not going to like: "You hoped for internal unrest in Ukraine. Instead, it was your own military formations that staged a mutiny against you." This doesn't really read like a genuine attempt to persuade Putin into a face-to-face negotiation.
The Trump administration continues to try to realign the US away from the West and towards Russia. Last year it rolled out the red carpet in Alaska; now it's at Putin's pound shop Davos to show off pictures of a ballroom. It's trying to enhance Russia's status at the cost of the US's.
In case anyone was inclined to think negotiations with Russia were a serious prospect, Zelensky's letter has goaded Putin into making it clear they're not. This event is supposed be a platform for Putin the global statesman but looks like they got Putin the angry old man instead.
