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President Donald Trump It announced on Sunday that he will probably speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. Putin’s spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, and the White House have since confirmed the call.
Trump would like to keep his campaign blade by closing a deal with Putin to end the war in Ukraine, which he has called a ‘massacre’.
This is what to expect and what cannot be expected from their conversation.
Both Trump and Putin will probably remain warm and respectful for each other, and will continue to show their skills and talents in diplomacy. Unlike former President Biden and his VP Kamala Harris, who were often annoyed by Putin’s Recalcitrance and calls him a “murderer”, Trump does not insult Trump Putin. The master of the art of the deal knows how to dance the waltz of diplomacy.
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Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zelenskyy, Left, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin
Under the facade, neither Trump nor Putin trust each other. Smiles and positive gestures, despite the fact that, in his first term, Trump continued the most powerful anti-Russia policy since Ronald Reagan. He authorized deadly help to Ukraine, punished the Nord Stream 2 -pipeline, started Russian spies that operated from his embassy that occurred as diplomats, and closed three Russian facilities in the US that effectively served as spy operational bases that focus on home country. Trump has also taken various measures to reduce the ability of Russia to use vulnerabilities in the American way of war, which is highly dependent on technology.
In turn, Putin looks at Trump As an extremely difficult and worthy opponent, someone who is unpredictable and difficult to manipulate the way in which the Russian dictator played earlier presidents: Bush, Obama and Biden. In 2017, when he was asked by a journalist if he was disappointed in Trump after the closure of Russian diplomatic facilities in New York, Washington and San Francisco, Putin called the question ‘naive’. The former KGB agent said that Trump is “not my bride, and I am not his groom.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his address to the Nation in Moscow on March 23, 2024. (Mikhail Metzel/Pool/AFP via Getty images)
In 2018, after the top in Helsinki, Putin mocked the idea that Trump trusted him: “You can’t trust anyone. Where did you get the idea that Trump trusts me and I trust him completely?” Putin told journalists. “He (Trump) defends the interests of the US and I from Russia.”
Indeed, feelings and emotions are simply not part of the Statecraft that use serious and strong heads of state when dealing with each other, especially when it comes to Russia and the United States, both of which consider exceptional superpowers.
When it comes to the substantive side of the Trump-Putin deal on Ukraine, there will be no breakthrough on Tuesday. But both parties will probably report positive progress without specific details.
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The 30-day cease-it-alless is unreachable. Putin is highly unlikely that it is forced to accept a ceasefire -because he is willing to fight to the bitter end.
As President Trump recently admitted, Putin holds ‘all cards’. Washington could and probably an even more serious economic pressure on Moscow, because the American Minister of Finance Scott Bessent and director Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, recently suggested. Hassett claimed that there are “many things” that Trump is ready to use as part of his “carrots or sticks” strategy to put pressure on Putin.
But the Russians believe that Team Trump bluffing, which suggests that it is too risky to play the cards with global economic consequences. The Russians think that more aggressive sanctions against the Russian energy sector are counterproductive, which would result in even higher prices here. Anyway, Moscow believes that sanctions can be done again, as it has done so far. Indeed, no economic sanctions have changed Putin’s behavior in the past decade.
The aftermath of a mortar attack in Makariv, east of Kiev, in Ukraine (National Police of Ukraine)
President Trump probably feels that a deal with Putin is more difficult to make than he thought. By making his campaign blade, Trump Perhaps he got himself in an unreachable time frame, so Putin used. Trump’s Russian advisers should have clearly drafted for the supreme commander of the complexity of the issue of Russia-Ukraine in which Washington had stepped in by pushing Ukraine in NATO In the first place.
The Russian media praise Putin’s “Six words” message to a “impatient” Trump (My Sat Mir, no Est ‘NyuansyIn the Russian language), referring to Putin’s recent statement in which he claimed that Russia is for peace, but “there are nuances.” On Sunday, Trump claimed that he was “a little sarcastic” when he promised the campaign track to end the war in Russia-Ukraine in 24 hours.
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On Sunday evening, Trump sounded more realistic and clearer with journalists at Air Force One.
“We want to see if we can end that war,” he said. “Maybe we can, maybe we can’t, but I think we have a very good chance.”
If the supreme commander realizes that Putin is stringing him, he will cancel the call and walk away. Putin Stew could alleviate him, which evokes a comeback if the Russians really want peace. The mess that President Trump has inherited from Biden and the Europeans will almost certainly not be resolved in a phone call, or not at all.
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