The facts are much more powerful than gestures or words. And this Wednesday, five days after Donald Trump received him in Alaska with red carpet and applause, Vladimir Putin He replied with facts. His military bombed an American factory in the west of Ukrainea missile attack that left about twenty injured. “I think he wants to reach an agreement for me, however crazy he sounds. Do you understand?” Trump a Emmanuel Macron The eve, during the visit of the half dozen European leaders who accompanied the Ukrainian Volodímir Zelenski To the White House to pray the American who does not throw Ukraine to the lions. During the visit his administration again made sensational ads and the Kremlin replied again with missiles.
Trump is convinced that his Personal connection with the Russian autocratcharged with war crimes for international justice, it will be enough to sign the Peace in Ukraine. But his magical thinking is not working. Not even when many of the Kremlin postulates do to end the war, postures closer to kyiv’s capitulation than to a lasting solution. “Trump believes foreign leaders can be treated in the same way as Americans, with fantastic promises and hateful matonism,” American historian wrote this week Timothy Snyder. “But those fantasies do not work beyond the US borders.”
Almost without exception, every time Trump talks to Putin, Russia increases its bombingsaccording to an analysis of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. And in parallel, every time the White House announces with all boato a progress in negotiations, Moscow soon puts the ground on the loophole. Putin is not dumb. Instead of a sharp “no”, impose impossible conditions Knowing that they will not be accepted.
Kremlin negatives
It happened on March 11, when Trump proposed a High 30 -day fire; a scenario that was repeated at the end of the month, when it reduced its reach to Naval Combat in the Black Sea. Nothing around here, nothing over there. And the same has happened this week of diplomatic frenzy in Washington. After the White House announced as a large concession the alleged disposition of the Kremlin to accept that the allies contribute security guarantees to Ukraine To prevent it from being invaded again after an eventual peace agreement, the Kremlin did not take the wine. Will only allow those guarantee, he said Sergei Lavrov, Your Foreign Minister, if Russia has veto powerand as long as a single NATO soldier on Ukrainian soil does not unfold.
Something similar happened after Trump presented almost as possible a possible Two or three bands Summit with Putin or Zelenski On the same table. Putin himself who continues to call Ukrainian by name. That summit, Lavrov replied, must prepare “step by step, gradually, with experts initially and without skipping any step.” Go that, imminent, nothing. Trump seems to have captured the message and no longer speaks of trilateral. The other two will have to meet first before embedding the photo, perhaps aware that this meeting is never produced.
White House Amateurism
To some Europeans, who are dedicating more efforts to appeasing Trump than to appease Putin, patience is being exhausted. Kaja Kallasthe head of community diplomacy, said Friday that Putin “is laughing” of Trump’s efforts. “It is clear that Russia does not want peace,” he added after accusing his leader of breaking all his promises. Is not helping the Amateurism with which the US faces negotiations. Its interlocutor with Moscow is Steve Witkoffa real estate entrepreneur without diplomatic experience, friend of the Trump family. In an interview he showed not even knowing what the four provinces occupied by the Russian military in Ukraine are called. And not only has he been accused of being some of Moscow’s most twisted arguments, but also to misunderstand Putin’s messages in his visits to Kremlin.
Not just that. Trump is disguising the National Security Councilhe State Department o to intelligence As a political vendetta with their Democratic rivals, including those departments dedicated to advising the President about Russia. So piloting negotiations with hardly any support of experts. “Trump has decided to rely especially in himself and a handful of nearby allies, including several friends from the business world,” said this week ‘The New York Times.’ And it is already known that the friendly It does not usually give good results.
Empty threats
Putin, which comes from the KGB, has it well open. Bully tends to harass the weak; In front of the forts, it is usually a tiger without teeth. And every time Trump has threatened Russia with sanctions, 100% tariff threats have been left. The opposite that he has done with Ukraine. With kyiv, he has dared to temporarily suspend the Weapon shipments or intelligence cooperation.
The conclusion is that Trump continues to conduct the peace process as if it were a reality show. At least you are looking for peace, some will say. But the truth is that six months after that February call with Putin that put the process to walk, nothing seems to have moved an apex. Russia continues to punish Ukraine without remission and Trump gradually loses interest. This week it was published that a season will be departed from the matter to let Russia and Ukraine organize the meeting between their leaders. Good luck.
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