Financial Times: The Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of War of the United States have a tense relationship
In a report, the British media revealed the tense relationship between the US Secretary of the Army and the head of the Peagon.
US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, who is leading the negotiating team on the US plan to resolve the war in Ukraine, has “tense relations” with Peagon chief Pete Hegst, according to ISNA.
“The strained relationship between the two officials is one of Washington’s worst-kept secrets,” the Financial Times reported, quoting a former US defense official.
The former official also told the newspaper: “Driscoll seems to have se a clear signal that he was to head the Peagon.”
CNN also recely reported that Driscoll could replace Heggst as the head of the Peagon. However, the Wall Street Journal later reported that Driscoll said he was “not ierested” in the job.
Driscoll has recely been at the ceer of the US governme’s efforts to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine. Last week, he preseed Preside Donald Trump’s 28-poi peace plan to Ukrainian Preside Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev.
According to the White House, the trip was followed by talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Geneva that resulted in “an updated and revised peace framework.”
In addition to Driscoll, the American delegation in Geneva included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Presideial Envoy Steve Wittkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.
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