Starmer’s careful Trump pitch may be drowned out by Kremlin siren songs ...Middle East

In a glowing profile (“Keir Starmer on Putin, Trump and Europe’s Challenge: ‘We’ve Known This Moment Was Coming’”), the newspaper’s London correspondent wrote that “the crisis has transformed Mr Starmer, turning a methodical, unflashy human rights lawyer and Labour Party politician, into something akin to a wartime leader”. 

That may be music to Washington’s ears, and the Prime Minister carefully goes out of his way to praise President Donald Trump. “I think we have a good relationship….I like and respect him. I understand what he’s trying to achieve,” he says, using cadences that No 10’s image-makers will hope resonate with America’s quixotic and authoritarian president. 

In a ninety-minute conversation with former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson, Witkoff appears to dismiss Starmer’s proposals to deploy the UK’s Armed Forces as part of a peacekeeping force in Ukraine. “What the hell is going on with…Starmer saying we’re going to send British troops?” asks Carlson in the interview published on Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

Asked whether he thinks the Russians want to “march across Europe”, Witkoff responds “100 per cent not”.

But the Trump administration remains utterly beguiled by Russia’s leader, as Witkoff himself demonstrates in his interview with Carlson. “It got personal,” the envoy says of a recent Kremlin meeting at which Putin presented Witkoff with a “beautiful portrait of President Trump from the leading Russian artist” that the envoy was charged with ferrying back to the White House.

square WORLD Explained

'Putin's not a bad guy': Eight bombshell revelations from Trump envoy

Elsewhere in the interview with Carlson, Witkoff reveals that he has discussed the partial dismemberment of Ukraine in his talks with Putin. While he is unable to name the five regions of Ukraine that he suggests may eventually be ceded to the Russians, he says Moscow has “reclaimed these five regions. They have Crimea and they have gotten what they wanted. So why do they need more?” he asks rhetorically, in an indication that he rejects the Prime Minister’s fear that Putin has ulterior motives.

The Prime Minister’s challenge now it to get Trump’s mind off his own personal business empire, and to focus on the threat the British Government believes that Putin continues to pose.

Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( Starmer’s careful Trump pitch may be drowned out by Kremlin siren songs )

Also on site :

• Lou Christie, “Lightnin’ Strikes” and “Rhapsody in the Rain” Singer, Dies at 82
• Bruce Springsteen Hints at New Music and Reveals Upcoming Box Set
• Detained Afghan’s legal entry into U.S. was ‘improvident,’ government argues