Donald Trump has said he believes Vladimir Putin is ready to make a deal on the war in Ukraine as the two leaders prepare for their summit in Alaska on Friday, but his suggestion the Russian leader and Volodymyr Zelenskyy could “divvy things up” may alarm some in Kyiv.
The US president implied there was a 75% chance of the Alaska meeting succeeding, and that the threat of economic sanctions may have made Putin more willing to seek an end to the war.
Trump insisted that he would not let Putin get the better of him in Friday’s meeting, telling reporters: “I am president, and he’s not going to mess around with me.
“I’ll know within the first two minutes, three minutes, four minutes or five minutes … whether or not we’re going to have a good meeting or a bad meeting.
Putin is definitely ready to agree to warmed-over demands from the Biden era 🦄 just like last time
Trump is going to show his hand as a Russian agent any day now (instead of throwing tantrums cursing Putin’s name like he wandered out of Reddit dot com slash r slash world news 😳)
X to doubt
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Putin’s idea of a deal is they pause the war, he gets the entire territory he now occupies and Ukraine is forbidden from building their army or joining NATO. Plus all the sanctions imposed due to the war need to be lifted of course, because the war is over. Then he can rebuild his forces and economy and just invade again at a later date.
And Trump will agree to it because he wants a Nobel peace prize and doesn’t care if he throws another country under a bus.
Russia has been very consistent about not being interested in any sort of pause. The deal is going to be that the west capitulates, and Trump will try to figure out to spin it as a win.
