CIA Director Reveals Conversation With Putin Before Ukraine Invasion

More than two years into his role at the CIA, Director Bill Burns has warned that the United States is seeing a time of change and transformation “that come along a couple of times a century.”

Speaking at the Baker Institute on Tuesday, Burns said that while America “still has a better hand to play than any of our rivals,” it is “no longer the only big kid on the geo-political block and our position at the head of the table isn’t guaranteed.”

He warned that China was clawing to run the table while Vladimir Putin’s Russia, full of “twisted ambition of a fading power,” wants to smash the table completely.

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