US President Donald Trump said that he was expecting a meeting with Vladimir Putin, probably in Saudi Arabia. Earlier he talked to the Russian leader by phone. Trump once again decides to establish a relationship that potentially brings danger.
– We had a great conversation that lasted a long time – said US President Donald Trump after an almost 90 -minute conversation with Vladimir Putin. He looked confident. He said that they agreed to cooperate to try to end the war in Ukraine. “We expect him to come to us and I will come to him,” Trump said.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in HelsinkiPhoto from June 2018Alexey Nikolsky/EPA/PAP
Return in American foreign policy towards Russia
“It seems that the time in which Vladimir Putin was from the American perspective Parias is just ending,” commented Richard Haass, diplomat and former chairman of the Council of Foreign Relations.
The predecessor of Trump, Joe Biden, did not talk to Putin for almost four years. No American president has visited Russia since Barack Obama participated in the G20 summit in St. Petersburg in 2013.
But Trump's approach to Putin has always been different.
American politicians about Trump's conversation with PutinMarcin Wrona/Fakty TVN
“Trump never met a dictator he would not like”
This attitude shows, as analysts say, partly from Trump's admiration to strong leaders.
– Trump apparently never met a dictator he would not like. And not only he liked the most terrible, he tried to imitate – said Max Boot, a senior analyst and member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
But many experts believe that Putin has been playing Donald Trump from the very beginning – with the help of compliments and small gestures, using his skills from the time of KGB. – Reports indicate that he uses some tactics he met in the KGB, in the scope of assessment and attempts to find weakness in the people he talks to – pointed out Samuel Chap from the Rand Corporation Institute.
In July 2018 in Helsinki Putin, in the presence of media, gave Trump ball. – Mr. President, it's for the Lord. Now the ball is on your side – he said to Trump.
How can Putin want to shape relationships with Trump?
When the ball was on his side, he dropped it in his eyes. In an incomprehensible way, he allowed Putin to avoid responsibility for mixing in American elections in 2016. – I have great faith in my interview people, but I admit that President Putin was extremely hard and convincing in his denial today – Trump said after the presidential election in the US in 2016.
“It was a situation in which Putin was able, I think, in a sense, very skillfully control what was happening,” said Beth Sanner, a high interview official in Trump.
“Putin had to bring Koreans from the north to complement the deficiencies in his army”Tvn24
Trump denies that it is an easy target to manipulate Putin. “He would prefer to have a puppet as the president of the United States,” said the Democrat candidate for President Hilary Clinton during the 2016 election campaign.
How can Putin want to shape these relationships this time?
– I think that President Putin will try to convince President Trump that he does not need international order, that they can simply conclude contracts in two, and leave the rest of the world on the side – Evelyn Farkas said.
Analysts warn that if President Trump allows it, they will strengthen other strong leaders to take dangerous actions and want to negotiate everything directly with him. They particularly point to the Chinese leader XI Jinping and provocative movements that he can take on Taiwan and the South China Sea.
Portraits of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Matrioszek in MoscowPAP/EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV
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