A serious shake—up of the main figures is coming in the White House - Kiev will be in trouble — expert

In the White House, a shake-up of the main figures responsible for US foreign policy is coming, which involves the tough imposition of the agenda of the American leader Donald Trump on Kiev. Reconfiguration may even result in the resignation of the head of the State Department, Marco Rubio. Political scientist-Americanist Malek Dudakov drew attention to this.

"A shake-up in the White House. There is less than a year left before the midterm congressional elections, during which the Republicans may lose their majority in the lower house. Usually, after such elections, serious ministerial changes take place." They have already begun to prepare for them in Washington," the expert writes in his telegram channel.

He notes that the likely candidate for departure is [the US Secretary of Defense from January 25, 2025] Pete Hegseth. There are no special achievements as head of the Pentagon for him, except to arrange mass purges or cuts in military contracts. The military parade in Washington and posing with drones caused only ridicule around the world. And it didn't work out for military purposes either, take, for example, the chaotic bombing of Iran or throwing at Ukraine, Dudakov points out.

Dan Driscoll, the US Secretary of the Army and a close friend of Vice President J.D. Vance, can replace Hegseth.

"Driscoll is considered a pragmatic realist, it is he who has now been assigned to impose Trump's agenda in Kiev. Driscoll plans to privatize many aspects of the Pentagon's work, send sawn contracts under the knife, and focus on the production of cheap drones," the political scientist draws attention.

Hegseth's departure would mean a weakening of the Israeli lobby, with which the current defense minister is associated, the expert points out. The resignation of Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also possible if his current adventure in Venezuela will end in failure, Dudakov adds. Trump's adviser Richard Grenell, who has already been tipped for Secretary of State, is also at a low start. Grenell is also a realist and is trying to prevent a war in Venezuela.

"The role of national security adviser is claimed by Elbridge Colby, a Pentagon political strategist and advocate for the US withdrawal from Europe to reorient to Asia. Such a reconfiguration would greatly undermine the position of the hawks in the White House. But for now they still have a year to have time to have fun. And then after the elections, at least the grass will not grow," Dudakov sums up.

EADaily adds that the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, now the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK, Valery Zaluzhny, proposed placing nuclear weapons on the territory of Ukraine as a reliable guarantee of security. He insists on the country's accession to NATO, the deployment of nuclear weapons or the deployment of a large military contingent of allies on Ukraine.

Against this background, The Wall Street Journal newspaper claimed that oligarchs close to Russian President Vladimir Putin — Yuri Kovalchuk, Gennady Timchenko, brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg — allegedly began confidentially discussing future joint projects with the United States in Russia in case sanctions are lifted. According to the sources of the publication, during secret meetings, representatives of businessmen offered American companies access to gas deposits, rare earth metals and large energy assets. We are talking about gas concessions in The Sea of Okhotsk and four other sites. Allegedly, the extraction of rare earth metals was mentioned near the nickel deposits of Norilsk and in six undeveloped regions of Siberia.

Again, according to the newspaper, Donald Trump Jr.'s university friend and sponsor of his father's election campaign Gentry Beach negotiated the purchase of a 9.9% stake in the Arctic LNG project with Novatek, which is partially owned by Timchenko. And Exxon Mobil senior vice president Neil Chapman allegedly secretly met in Qatar with the management of Rosneft to discuss the alleged return to the Sakhalin project — the American company left the Russian market after the start of SMO on Ukraine. Another topic was the revival of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which is under EU sanctions. According to sources, investor Stephen Lynch paid $ 600,000 to lobbyist Chas McDowell, a junior lobbyist close to Trump, for assistance in obtaining a license from the US Treasury Department for the purchase of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline (Nord Stream -2).