Kaliningrad drone incident: the administration must conceal or contain exposure of U.S. reconnaissance technology while negotiating with Russia — a diplomatic power struggle where technological vulnerability forces high‑stakes political decisions.
Kaliningrad drone incident: the administration must conceal or contain exposure of U.S. reconnaissance technology while negotiating with Russia — a diplomatic power struggle where technological vulnerability forces high‑stakes political decisions.
Events in This Arc
A warm, late‑night Oval Office moment—Debbie pleads to join the president’s impromptu cash poker game while Bartlet riffs about an equinox egg‑balancing trick—quickly fractures into crisis when Leo bursts in. …
A high-stakes diplomatic confrontation unfolds in the Oval Office when a U.S. reconnaissance UAV is found crashed in Kaliningrad. Leo, blunt and alarmed, threatens to destroy the drone to prevent …
President Bartlet abruptly ends a high-stakes phone negotiation with his Russian counterpart by dropping the pretense and admitting the UAV was photographing Kaliningrad — specifically black-market nuclear material shipments. He …