Trump spoke to Putin by telephone on Wednesday and demanded the immediate beginning of peace negotiations. Only then did you talk to Zelensky
First he called Vladimir Putin and only then to Volodymyr Zelensky. Donald Trump has already begun to shake the waters to put peace negotiations in Ukraine, but have first called the aggressor country and only then to the assaulted deserved criticism from the Ukrainian President. Although this order is not “normal”, it was the “expected”.
“It would not be normal in the context of international relations in the dimension of the normative axis”, guarantees the specialist in International Relations José Filipe Pinto, explaining that they are based on three axes – the normative, which stems from law; the economist, linked to the economy; and the polemological, related to the war.
According to José Filipe Pinto, Europe lives around the normative axis, but the US, with Trump, changed this order, so that Putin was expected to be the first person on the president’s Ukraine war list. “Trump’s return to power has passed the normative axis to third position, first putting the economic axis, because it sees the state as a company and taking into account the polemological axis that stems from the war,” he says.
“It was expected that Donald Trump first called Putin than Zelensky,” he continues, denying that there is a “reversal in the process,” but “the normal course of a process that has to be interpreted within the world of multiple orders “.
Everything is due to the different “weight” that the US President attributes to the heads of the two states at war, and Trump does not recognize the Ukrainian counterpart “more than an authority resulting from his resistance to the invader” and that “nothing More has to offer than natural resources, “while recognizing Putin” a statute that stems from the world multiple orders, “although so far the Russian has been” condemned to the condition of outcast. “
“I don’t know if it is normal. In diplomacy there are no normal things. There are initiatives that are taken and President Trump has decided that this was the initiative he should take,” says Ambassador António Martins da Cruz, asked about the call order.
Trump is fulfilling what promised during the election campaign, he says, and to this “understood that he should understand himself directly with the Russian President”, noting that previous contacts between Americans, Russians and Ukrainians have already been made ” public “.
Also the ambassador Francisco Seixas da Costa speaks of a “completely atypical” situation: “It is not supposed that a third part will be involved in the process without making an invitation from both parties. The process is turned inside out.”
Donald Trump e Vladimir Putin (Foto: Associated Press)
Theoretically, it explains, in a conflict arise multilateral international entities to intervene for peace or, at the request of the parties, a country, or a set of countries play this role to try to find mediation.
“In this case, no one has asked the US to intervene in this process. The US, by manifestation of objective force in the international framework, understands that they have a duty to intervene in the conflict and do it in their way. It is an unprecedented moment,” he says the commentator of CNN Portugal.
Zelensky doesn’t seem to have liked Trump to talk to Putin first. “I don’t see this phone call as a priority, since he (Trump) spoke first to Russia. Although not very friendly anyway, because we know how Ukrainian society and Europeans react: nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine, ”he said in a reaction to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Thursday. According to Zelensky, Kiev’s priority is the meeting between Ukraine and the US, as well as the development of a “to lock Putin” plan. “I think it’s fair to talk to the Russians after that,” he said.
For José Filipe Pinto, “friendly is an euphemism.” “Clearly shows that Trump has a priority hierarchy,” he says. And, continues, Zelensky realized this early: “Zelensky was the first to realize the change of the conjuncture, was Leto offering Trump the possible dividends of the continuation of American support, was aware of his fragility and exchanged the arrogant speech of demand for dialogue and demand “.
Ambassador António Martins da Cruz also considers that the Ukrainian position will not be decisive in conflict resolution: “In direct negotiations between Russians and Americans, it is obvious that Zelensky will be heard, but will never have the last word.”
In this sense, Francisco Seixas da Costa says that “Ukraine is not an independent state today”, but “an dependent state that does not generate its own future, given that all its defense over the three years has been done thanks to the outdoor support “.
Zelensky Volodym in Donald Trump
For António Martins da Cruz, Europe will also be out of the business process: “Europeans have not been taken or find so far.” “And if it continues to do so will be Europe at the end to send troops to maintain security and pass the check to a part of the reconstruction of Ukraine,” he says.
The ambassador does not believe that Trump calls A (EU) as a whole for the negotiating process. The US president will “certainly” “France and Germany and” perhaps “Poland certainly.
“The EU continues to place the normative axis first, continues to talk about a fair solution to the conflict, which is not the essence of history to resolve conflict – is the law of the strongest,” continues José Filipe Pinto. For the international relations expert, this shows that “European leaders still remain attached to the world of World War II.”
On Wednesday, he spoke to Vladimir Putin over the phone. “We have woken up that our teams will immediately start negotiations,” Trump said on his social network, Truth Social. Only later did the US president call and said Volodymyr Zelensky from the conversation.
A meeting is now expected between the American and Russian leaders, which must happen “in the not too distant future” in the.
