The United States and Russia once broached a staggering idea: Russia could have a free hand in Ukraine if the United States was allowed to seize influence in Venezuela, according to direct testimony from a senior Trump administration official.
In 2019, Dr Fiona Hill, a former senior U.S. adviser on Russia and Europe, told a U.S. congressional committee that Russian officials were signalling a 'very strange swap' between Ukraine and Venezuela, an offer that was informally floated and formally rejected at the time.
