Why Putin’s relationship and Trump sour

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Were there relations between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin from the origin? The popular Russian newspaper thinks. He turned to trains to illustrate the current state of US Russian ties.

“Recently, the collision seems inevitable,” said Moscow Komsomelets recently.

“Trump’s locomotive and Putin’s locomotive move on to each other.

“And no one is going to turn off and stop and turn away.”

For “Putin Locomotive” this is a complete couple ahead of the so -called “special military operation”: war in Russia in Ukraine. Kremlin leader did not want to stop hostilities and declare a long -term ceasefire.

Meanwhile, Trump’s steam train accelerates pressure efforts to stop fighting: announcement of terms, ultimatum, threats of additional sanctions against Russia and hefty tariffs for Russia’s trading partners like India and China.

Add to everything that two nuclear submarines in the US, which President Trump claims he has moved closer to Russia.

If you move from a conversation about steam trains to nuclear submarines, you know that everything is serious.

But does this mean that the White House is really on a “collision rate” with Kremlin over Ukraine?

Does Moscow’s visit to Moscow this week, Donald Trump’s special messenger Steve Witco, what is the fight between Russia and America for all positions?

In the first weeks of Trump’s second presidency, Moscow and Washington appeared well on the way to restart their bilateral relations.

No hint of head collision. Far from that. Sometimes it seemed that Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were in the same carriage, moving in the same direction. In February, the United States spoke to Russia in the United Nations, opposing a resolution conducted in a European project that condemned Russia’s “aggression” in Ukraine.

Two presidents talked about visiting each other’s countries this month. The Putin-Trump summit could see any day.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration pressure Kiev, not Moscow, and choosing fighting with traditional US allies, such as Canada and Denmark. In speeches and television interviews, US officials severely treated NATO and European leaders.

All this was music to the Kremlin’s ears.

“Now in America more in common with Russia than in Washington with Brussels or Kiev,” political analyst Konstantin Blokhin from the Russian Security Academy of Sciences told Izvestia in March.

The same newspaper was held next month:

“Corpses are revolutionaries. These are harmful systems. They can only be supported in this. The unity of the West is no longer.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s Messenger Steve Witcooff has become a permanent visitors to Russia. He made four trips here for a little over two months, spending hours in negotiations with Vladimir Putin. After one meeting, the Kremlin leader handed him a portrait of Donald Trump to return to the White House.

It was said that Trump’s president was “clearly affected” by the gesture.

But President Trump was looking for more than just a picture from Moscow. He wanted President Putin to sign up for an unconditional comprehensive ceasefire in Ukraine.

I am sure that Russia is holding the initiative now on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is reluctant to cease to fight, despite the claim that Moscow is seeking a diplomatic solution.

That is why Donald Trump was increasingly disappointed with the Kremlin.

In recent weeks, he condemned Russia’s relentless attacks on Ukrainian cities as “disgusting”, “shameful” and accused Putin’s president of talking “a lot of nonsense” on Ukraine.

Last month, Donald Trump announced a 50-day ultimatum Putin to end the war, threatening sanctions and tariffs. Subsequently, it decreased to ten days. The deadline should end at the end of this week. So far, there is no sign that Vladimir Putin will pressure Washington.

And again, how much pressure does Vladimir Putin feel?

“Since Donald Trump has changed so much terms, and he somehow perverted, I do not think that Putin perceives him seriously,” said Nina Khrushcheva, professor of international affairs at a new school, university in New York.

“Putin will fight as much as he can, or if Ukraine does not say,” We are tired, we are ready to accept your conditions. “

“I think that Putin is sitting there in Kremlin and believes that he fulfills the dreams of Russian tsars, and then common secretaries, such as Joseph Stalin, showing the West that Russia cannot be treated with disrespect.”

From the picture I have drawn so far, it may look as if the collision between Putin and Trump’s steam trains inevitably.

Not necessarily.

Donald Trump perceives himself as a great deal, and, from the appearance of things, he did not give up attempts to provide him with Vladimir Putin.

This week, Steve Witcoof should return to Russia for negotiations with the Kremlin leader. We do not know what offer he can bring with him. But some commentators in Moscow predict that there will be more carrots than a stick. It was not left unnoticed that President Trump said on Sunday that Russia “seems pretty good to avoid sanctions.”

On Monday, Ivan Losovarov, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Theory of the University of MGIM, Moscow, said Izvestiya that in order to facilitate the dialogue, Mr. Vitcoof could present “favorable proposals of cooperation (in Russia), which will open after the transaction in Ukraine.”

Can it be enough to convince the Kremlin to conclude peace after three and a half years of war?

No guarantee.

In the end, Vladimir Putin has not yet made his maximalist requirements in Ukraine, Ukraine’s neutrality and future size of the Ukrainian army.

Donald Trump wants a deal. Vladimir Putin wants victory.

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