The former director of the MI6 Sir Alex Younger warned that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has “touched Donald Trump as a violin”, but maybe now he has taken things too far. The former Chief of the United Kingdom’s external intelligence service was overwhelmed by ensuring that the Russian president managed the American “as he wanted.”
Younger, who led the United Kingdom Secret Intelligence Service between 2014 and 2020, said the Russian President had tried to manipulate Trump presenting a false feeling of camaraderie, only for the plan to eventually fail when the US leader hardened his position on Ukraine, as published by the British media .
“Until now, he has manipulated Trump as if he were a violin. He has created the idea that they are friends, who are the same and that together they can solve all the problems of the world. But Donald Trump is becoming very clear that Putin has no other plan to subjugate Ukraine BBC Newsnightin which he said that Putin seemed to be judging political and military reality.
Younger said the Russian president “is exaggerating. And it does not have a military solution.” “In three years he has lost a million men and has less territory than in 22, agrees? So Trump is his only answer. He is playing very dangerous,” he said.
The relations between Trump and Putin seem to have deteriorated in recent months, since the US president abandoned the idea that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was somehow caused by kyiv and, instead, he blamed the Kremlin for prolonging a brutal war. “Putin says many nonsense, if you want to know the truth. It is always very friendly, but in the end it turns out to be a nonsense,” the US president recently declared.
