Trump went on key concessions to Putin in front of Summit in Saudi Arabia - CNN
The Trump administration put the end of the international isolation of the Russian leader, destroyed the unity of the West in this war in Ukraine and questioned how far the United States would go to Europe. CNN writes about it. Trump's assistants also increased the fears that the US President would approve almost any agreement with Putin-even if it is bad for Ukraine and the continent whose borders are again threatened by Russian expansionism.
The assumption that the United States would exclude its European partners from peace negotiations on Ukraine also alarm in the continent's capitals, and France convened key leaders on an emergency meeting in Paris on Monday Monday. On the eve of February 16, Trump said a meeting with Putin can go "very soon". "We are moving forward. We are trying to reach peace with Russia, Ukraine, and we are working hard on it," he said.
The ambiguous reports from the Trump administration will heat up the fears that he will agree to the agreement with Putin, which will legalize the illegal invasion and then enforce him in Ukraine. Although most foreign experts in the field of foreign policy recognize that Ukraine will not get all the lands captured by Russia back, Trump still criticized that he had missed levers of influence in his conversation with the Russian leader.
Like the Defense Minister Pete Hegsset, who said the peace agreement would not include the path to NATO membership for Ukraine and that the US peacekeeping troops will not be involved. The fears intensified due to the rapid Trump's attempt last week to fully rehabilitate Putin, accused of war crimes when he promoted Russia's foreign policy, not the West.
For example, Trump seems to have listened to Putin's justifications to invade Ukraine and urged him to return to a group of industrialized G8 countries, from which Russia was expelled through the occupation of Crimea in 2014. According to journalists, the statements of the new US administration are pleasing to the Kremlin head.
The time during which it remained in the status of international rogue is coming to an end, and the agreement on Ukraine, which is already at the distance of the extended hand, will consolidate territorial conquests for the Russian Federation. The division that Trump initiated inside NATO is consistent with one of the main Russian goals in foreign policy. "It is like Easter, Hanuka, Christmas and Vladimir's birthday in one day.