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Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in meetings with Putin to end war in Ukraine (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 1 week ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world
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Using the Kremlin’s interpreter was “a very bad idea” that put Witkoff “at a real disadvantage,” Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, told NBC News.

Donald Trump’s special envoy broke with long-standing protocol by not employing his own interpreter during three high-level meetings with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, opting instead to rely on translators from the Kremlin, a U.S. official and two Western officials with knowledge of the talks told NBC News.

Steve Witkoff, who has been tasked with negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine, met with Putin in Moscow for several hours on Feb. 11, on March 13, and in St. Petersburg on April 11, and “used their translators,” one of the Western officials said. “If they speak to each other in Russian, he doesn’t know what they are saying,” the official added, referring to Putin and the interpreters.

Witkoff, a former real estate mogul and cryptocurrency trader, does not speak Russian. By using Kremlin interpreters, he ran the risk that some of the nuance in Putin’s messages was missed and he would not have been able to independently verify what was being said to him, two former American ambassadors said.

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[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 96 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The administration finds itself reeling after firing all of our translators due to “foreign language being woke globalist DEI marxism, speak english”

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I genuinely can't tell if this is satire or fact

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 30 points 1 week ago

I cant either and I wrote it. Its both satirical and also a highly plausible explanation. Although we all know the one set of translators they wouldnt fire are the Russian ones

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

That is the price we had to pay for this new meritocracy of highly competent and experienced administrators