Trump and Putin may have spoken, but experts say the Russian president doesn’t have the incentive to end the war
Russian and Western experts are being weighted after US President Donald Trump said he spoke to Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine.
In an interview with the New York Post, Trump said Putin “hopes to stop people from dying,” while the US leader said “we want to end this damn thing” (7am). (see post in 55 minutes).
However, experts who spoke with the Associated Press warned that there will be little incentive for the Russian president to come to the negotiation table, whether Trump threatens him, or blackmails him.
They said that almost three years after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv is tackling a lack of men and weapons, although Kyiv is working on the battlefield.
In other words, Putin says he is closer than ever to achieving his goals in a country that has endured the battle.
Russia is seriously injured and its economy is under strict Western sanctions constraints, but Putin has many soldiers and Russia’s economy is permanent, experts add.
Furthermore, Putin unleashed the toughest crackdown on objections since the Soviet era. In other words, he is not facing domestic pressure to end the war.
“In the West, the idea that it’s important for Putin to reach an agreement and get things done comes from somewhere. This is not true,” he said, holding a forum with Putin in November, in which he was asked to hold a Moscow. said Fyodor Lukyanov, who held the Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense. policy.
