Army Secretary Dan Driscoll goes from Trump’s ‘drone guy’ to top Ukraine-Russia negotiator

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President Donald Trump loves to utilize nontraditional emissaries for foreign policy to help the conventional U.S. diplomats.

He leaned on his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff, a real estate developer who had not had diplomatic experience prior to Trump’s second term, to seal the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, and now, with a renewed push to end the Russia-Ukraine war, his new unconventional diplomat is Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.

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