Lavrov Rejects Ceasefire; Ratcliffe Steps Out of the Shadows (The Duran)

At the UN General Assembly, Sergey Lavrov flatly rejected Europe's push for a Ukraine ceasefire, while Marco Rubio spun his meeting with the Russian foreign minister as a breakthrough. In this episode we explain why the CIA under John Ratcliffe now appears to be running Project Ukraine, from the snubbed Moscow trip to the drone scare fed to Macron and the Europeans. Why does Russia keep blaming Europe and not name the CIA, and can anyone in Washington still restrain it?



Time Stamps:

00:00:00 UN General Assembly and the ceasefire push
00:01:29 From euphoria to collapse in Ukraine
00:02:56 Rubio spins his Lavrov meeting
00:05:40 Macron, Ratcliffe and the drone scare
00:07:30 The CIA is running Project Ukraine
00:08:51 Why talks need no ceasefire, the Vietnam precedent
00:10:04 Lavrov blames Europe, not the US
00:13:11 America's role from Maidan to Minsk
00:18:28 Can anyone restrain the CIA
00:22:52 Ratcliffe's Moscow trip and the Putin snub

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, September 26, 2026.]