August 15 was a date marked in red in international code. The between the US president, Donald Trumpand the Russian president, Vladimir Putinfollow hopes that one possible truce or even a peace agreement in the Ukraine War It could be close.
However, It has been almost a month since that appointment and the end of the armed conflict (even less with him in the last hours).
In that sense, in which it stands out that USAand personally Trump has made a erroneous interpretation about Russia that is costing Ukraine.
“It could be called a brave, optimistic interpretation, perhaps even Calamitosa. The belief of US president Donald Trump thatsomehow, Thanks to his charisma, he could convince His Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, that he wanted a peace agreement was, at best, excessively generous with himself and with the chief of Kremlin “it stands out in the text.
According to Nick Paton Walsh, that approach “fed on the Strategy that Moscow is a power ally in the United States against Chinainstead of (more and more) a Beijing Energy producing vassal. “
But That Trump’s perception has been completely wrong. In fact, last week, during the celebration of the 25th Summit of the OCS (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) they could contemplate Very cordial scenes, and, between Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
The aforementioned journalist emphasizes, in relation to the attitude adopted by the US before Putin, that “this erroneous interpretation of the situation It has cost Ukraine very expensivein terms of the public instability of your US support and al Provide a window in which Russian forces could advance coldly on the front. “
Regarding what this reality coup can assume for Washington, Walsh believes that “These months have provided a lesson Incident (if you had to learn it) On who is on each side. Not even Trump can become illusions now. “
