Why Putin and Trump’s relationship has soured

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Has the relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin set out on bars? A famous Russian newspaper believes that. It turned into trains to clarify the current situation of US -Russian relations.

“It seems that the direct collision appears to be inevitable,” which was announced by the Tablolide Moskovsky Komsomolite recently.

“Trump’s locomotive and Putin’s locomotive accelerate each other.

“Nor is about to stop the operation or stop and vice versa.”

For “Putin’s locomotive”, it is a full jacket in the future, with the so -called “special military operation”: Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Kremlin leader did not show any desire to finish hostilities and declare a long -term ceasefire.

Meanwhile, Trump’s locomotive has accelerated efforts to pressure Moscow to end the fighting: announcing the final dates, warning, additional sanctions against Russia and the huge definitions of trading partners in Russia, such as India and China.

Add to all of this the American nuclear submarines that President Trump claims to be re -placed near Russia.

When you move from talking about locomotives to nuclear submarines, you know that things are dangerous.

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

Or is it a visit to Moscow this week by Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkeov, a sign that despite all the positions, the deal between Russia and America to end the fighting is still possible?

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

No hint of face collision on face. Far from that. Sometimes it seemed as if Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump were in the same vehicle, moving in the same direction. In February, the United States stood up to Russia at the United Nations, where a European formula was opposed to the “aggression” of Russia in Ukraine.

In a phone call that month, the presidents spoke about the visit of each other. I felt as if the Putin Trump’s top could happen on any day.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration was putting pressure on Kiev, not on Moscow, and choosing battles with traditional American allies, such as Canada and Denmark. In sermons and television interviews, US officials were strongly criticizing NATO and European leaders.

All this was the music of the Kremlin.

“America has more common denominators with Russia more than Washington with Brussels or with Kiev,” said political scientist Constantin Blockine of the Center for the Russian Academy of Sciences for Security Studies of the Isvista newspaper in March.

The next month, the newspaper itself was screaming:

“The Trumperists are revolutionaries. They are wreckage of the regime. They can only be supported in this. The West’s unity is no longer geographically, they are no longer an alliance. Trams have destroyed the consensus through the Atlantic with confidence and speed.”

Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Whitchov, became a regular visitor to Russia. He made four trips here in a little more than two months, and spent hours in talks with Vladimir Putin. After one meeting, the Kremlin leader presented him with a picture of Donald Trump to return to the White House.

President Trump was said to have “not clearly touched” through the gesture.

But President Trump was looking for more than just a painting from Moscow. He wanted President Putin to register in a comprehensive, unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine.

I am sure that Russia is now carrying the initiative in the battlefield, Vladimir Putin was hesitant to stop fighting, despite his claim that Moscow is committed to a diplomatic solution.

This is why Donald Trump is increasingly frustrated with the Kremlin.

In recent weeks, Russia’s uncompromising attacks have condemned the Ukrainian cities as “disgusting”, “disgraceful”, and President Putin accused of talking “a lot of nonsense” on Ukraine.

Last month, Donald Trump announced a 50 -day warning to President Putin to end the war, threatening sanctions and definitions. Then reduce it to ten days. The deadline is scheduled to end this week. To date, there is no sign that Vladimir Putin will surrender to pressure from Washington.

Then again, how much pressure did Vladimir Putin really feel?

“Because Donald Trump has changed many final dates, and wrapped him in one way or another, I don’t think Putin is taking him seriously,” Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs at the new school, is a university in New York City.

“Putin will fight for him as long as he can, or, unless Ukraine says,” We are tired, we are ready to accept your circumstances. “

“I think Putin is sitting there in the Kremlin and believes that he checks the dreams of Russian Corar, then the general secretaries such as Joseph Stalin, in showing the West that Russia should not be treated with respect.”

From the picture I have drew so far, it might seem as if the direct collision between Putin’s locomotives and Trump is inevitable.

Not necessarily.

Donald Trump sees himself as the maker of a big deal, and from the appearance of things, he has not abandoned one attempt to secure with Vladimir Putin.

Steve Witkev is scheduled to return to Russia this week to hold talks with the Kremlin leader. We do not know the type of offer that he may bring with him. But some commentators in Moscow expect that there will be more carrots than the stick. It was unprecedented that President Trump on Sunday said Russia “seems good in avoiding sanctions.”

On Monday, Ivan Lutkarif, Associate Professor of Political Theory at MGIMO University, Moscow, told Izvestia that to facilitate the dialogue, Mr. Witkoff may offer “useful cooperation offers” [to Russia] It would open after a deal to Ukraine. “

This may be sufficient to persuade the Kremlin to make peace after three years of war?

There is no guarantee.

After all, so far in Ukraine Vladimir Putin has not skiing from his maximum demands on the lands, the neutrality of Ukraine and the future size of the Ukrainian army.

Donald Trump wants a deal. Vladimir Putin wants victory.

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