Senior officials in the administration of US President Donald Trump have refuted each other in how to develop a common policy towards Russia, amid a White House torn apart by vicious infighting, says a political analyst in Washington.
“You know there is a total war within the administration,” said Mike Billington, an editor with the Executive Intelligence Review.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has “completely refuted all of the garbage coming out of the press about Trump is now mobilizing against Russia, is mobilizing against China, and Tillerson just completely contradicted it,” Billington told Press TV on Wednesday.
“And on China, he said this is not about trade, but he said we do not blame China for the North Korea crisis, and we want to talk to North Korea and they have to understand that we are not a threat, we are not going to invade, and we are not going to force unification,” he added.
“This is a total opposite of…