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An American lawyer, a banker, and a former spy devised a plan to prevent nuclear Armageddon. They just had to show it to the Russian president.

An American lawyer, an experienced banker in Russia and a former East German secret service agent have become part of an unusual effort to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin not to use nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine.

According to the Financial Times, the three men created a special communication channel with the aim of preventing a dangerous escalation of the war. The newspaper called them “Putin’s whisperers,” due to their connections to the Russian president and the ability to communicate with him outside of official channels.

The initiative gained importance after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, when the war was not going according to Moscow's plans and Putin began threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons if Russia's security was threatened. While some analysts saw these statements as an attempt to intimidate the West, others feared that the situation could spiral out of control.

One of the people most concerned about this possibility was American lawyer Richard Conn, who lives and works in Weston, Connecticut. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he moved with his family to Moscow to help Boris Yeltsin's government transition to democracy and a market economy.

Conn returned to Russia in the early 2000s, during Putin's first presidential term, and has maintained ties to Russian businessmen and politicians since then. During his lifetime, both the KGB and the CIA tried to recruit him, but he rejected both offers, remaining committed to dialogue between the United States and Russia.

The second person is Bob Foresman, an American banker who lived and worked for years in the former Soviet Union. He initially stayed in Kiev, where he met his future wife, and then moved to Moscow, where he headed the investment department of the local branch of the Dresden Bank.

Foresman has also had connections to Donald Trump. In 2016, when Trump was gaining ground in the race to secure the Republican nomination for US president, the banker extended him an invitation to speak at a conference in St. Petersburg.

The third person, Matthias Warnig, is a former agent of the Stasi, the secret service of communist East Germany. After leaving the service, he worked with Foresman at the Dresden Bank, but what makes him particularly important is his long-standing friendship with Putin.

Warnig had met Putin in Dresden, while the latter was serving as a KGB officer in East Germany. They met again in the 1990s in St. Petersburg, where Putin was just starting his political career. The two often spent evenings together, drinking vodka, and over time they developed a close friendship.

Warnig became one of the few people who could communicate directly with the Russian president, without having to go through a chain of advisers. The closeness between them was so great that, when Putin's wife, Lyudmila, was seriously injured in a car accident, the Russian president's two daughters stayed for a period in Germany, with Warnig's family.

It was these connections that were exploited after the war in Ukraine began. Conn contacted Foresman, who suggested that Warnig might be the right person to convey a direct message to Putin, in order to convince him not to use nuclear weapons.

This effort also included Eric Green, head of the Russia department at the White House National Security Council, who reportedly gave the go-ahead to proceed.

Then began a series of meetings and contacts in various places, from the Canary Islands and Zurich to Washington and Moscow. Initially, Warnig contacted Yuri Ushakov, the former Russian ambassador to the United States and one of the Kremlin's top foreign policy advisers since 2012. Later, he also met with Putin himself.

However, it is not known exactly what was discussed during these meetings and whether the effort had any concrete impact on the Russian president. It also remains unclear how involved the White House was in this initiative.

US administration sources have said that this was just one of several communication channels that the US and its allies used to contact Putin and warn him about the dangers of using nuclear weapons.

The story of these three men shows that, at a time when relations between Russia and the West are extremely tense, personal connections and contacts built over years can serve as bridges of communication, even when official channels are difficult to use. But what remains unknown is whether these efforts succeeded in convincing Putin to back down from nuclear threats.

 


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