(MENAFN- UkrinForm) According to Ukrinform, Brink shared these views during The David Frum Show , a podcast by The Atlantic.

Drawing on her experience within the Trump administration, Brink said she was not given the opportunity to offer recommendations that contradicted the president's viewpoint - something she described as a core function of the bureaucracy.

"That's highly problematic. I can tell you many times during the Biden administration, I am sure I annoyed or aggravated people because I was so persistent, but I felt it was my duty and my job in my views," Brink said.

She also called it a mistake not to rely on people with expertise in the area.

"Putin has a larger strategic plan, which is very dangerous to the United States, and we ignore that plan at our peril. And although he operates tactically, so he can be defeated. But I think it requires a very thoughtful, strategic, coordinated approach, and that's something that in the second Trump administration, my challenge had been getting advice to the right person, because there are a number of different people who are working on Ukraine and on Russia policy," she said.

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Brink also pointed to the chaos of the policy process in Washington as another major issue, saying it undermines a coherent deterrence policy toward Russia and fails to send the right signal to China.

"I think it's a different administration, and it's a threat to our future, and that's why I've come out. That's why I left," she said.

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