Inside Ukraine-Russia talks: Britain's Kissinger, Putin's enforcer and Trump's envoy
Donald Trump’s latest effort to end the war in Ukraine unleashed a week of diplomatic turmoil.
And some of the most dramatic diplomatic twists and turns bear the finger prints of one man: Jonathan Powell, the British national security advisor, not only led a diplomatic rescue mission to recast Donald Trump’s original Russian-inspired proposals in Ukraine and Europe’s favour. His influence can also be seen in Anglo-French plans for a “coalition of the willing,” and even earlier this year in Donald Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan.
He is a low-profile figure who wields real influence. So can the man who…
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