Nebulous at best, Trump’s plan in Alaska involved unleashing “very severe consequences” against the Russian President if he failed to embrace a ceasefire, or provide clarity over his intention to end the conflict.
Trump constantly reaches for the “next couple of weeks” formula when he faces a fork in the road and decides to buy himself more time. But the world can now see nakedly that he is willing to give the Russian leader as much time as he demands. Trump has threatened Putin with tighter sanctions, “very severe consequences” and, as he put it only on Tuesday, “tough action” if he doesn’t bring the war to a close. He has never followed through on any of those threats.
Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, described Trump’s talks with Europe as a ‘road to nowhere’ (Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko/ Reuters)The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his colleagues from Europe of making “clumsy…unethical attempts” to lure Trump away from Putin’s orbit during Monday’s historic White House meeting. Far from any “breakthrough” on security guarantees for Ukraine that US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff trumpeted on American television last Sunday, Lavrov described Trump’s discussions with Ukraine President, Volodymyr Zelensky, and his European allies as the “road to nowhere”.
Trump hosts a historic meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Nato Secretary-General Mark Rutte, and other European leaders including Keir Starmer at the White House on Monday (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
But Russian officials have waved away Trump’s claim that a meeting between the two leaders is imminent. Lavrov said any face-off “must be prepared in the most meticulous way”, and claimed that Putin had merely promised to “think about raising the level” of bilateral talks that have been the preserve of only lower-level officials so far.
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Certainly, no major progress on peace or security guarantees for Ukraine appears to have been made across two days of Western military talks featuring the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine. On Tuesday night he engaged with European defence chiefs, and then widened the circle on Wednesday by attending a virtual meeting of top Nato officials. Italian admiral Guiseppe Cavo Dragone said the meeting of the alliance’s Military Committee had been a “great, candid discussion…and that unity was truly tangible”.
Trump told Fox News on Tuesday that he did not expect peacekeeping operations even to be tested by the Russians. “I think if a deal is made, I think Russia’s had it, they’ve all had it, and for an extended period of time I don’t think there will be a problem”, he predicted.
Zelensky and the European leaders who crowded into his Oval Office on Monday beg to differ.
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