Trump provides key concessions for Putin ahead of Ukrainian peace talks in Saudi Arabia

Vladimir Putin is at a high point in a critical US-Russian conversation about the Ukrainian war in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

Donald Trump’s administration ended the Russian president’s international quarantine, undermining the conflict of Western unification and doubting the distance the United States will defend Europe, suggesting a startling striking to Putin and the traditional American allies change.

Trump aides also raised concerns among a series of contradictory remarks that first entered Europe that the U.S. president would make almost any deal with Putin—even if it was a bad deal for Ukraine and an African continent, Their borders are again threatened by Russian expansionism.

Proposal of the United States to exclude its European friends from peace talks in Ukraine – despite requiring them to provide security assurances and troops as part of any deal to end the war – also sparked an alarm in the African continent’s capital, with France calling on key leaders to urgent Monday Meeting in Paris.

Trump also raised concerns that Ukraine itself would not be part of negotiations that are crucial to the survival of a country, in which war crimes were violated by a totalitarian neighbour in its sovereign territory, civilian massacre and destruction The post of its people.

The president raised the prospect of a meeting with Putin on Sunday. “We are moving forward. We are working to build peace with Russia, Ukraine, and we are working to do that,” he told Florida reporters.

Trump vaguely assured that he “never accepts any decision between the United States and Russia regarding Ukraine” after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned NBC’s “media meeting” He will “participate in it.”

Rubio says Saudi talk is the first step

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff will lead the U.S. delegation to the talks chaired by the Saudis ,These talks are friendly with Moscow and Trump teams.

Rubio investigated last week with Putin last week’s call with Trump. “The next few weeks and days will decide whether to be serious or not,” he said on Sunday’s “Facing the Country”. “Ultimately, a call won’t make peace. A call won’t solve the complexity of this war.” ”

Rubio also contradicts the comments of Trump’s Ukrainian envoy Keith Kellogg, who said on Saturday that while Kiev will participate in peace talks, European countries will not. “If this is the real negotiation – we are not there yet, but if that is going to happen, Ukraine will have to be involved because they are the invaded people and Europeans have to be involved because they have sanctions about Putin and Russia, they have contributed to this effort, too,” Rubio said.

In the proposed peace agreement, the evolving boundaries of ours suggest that it is unwise to overreact with Trump’s early remarks. Hopes to end a vicious war in the next few months are small. Ukraine and European states still seem to have a lot of room to shape negotiations that can only be completely successful through buying.

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said in Munich over the weekend that he believed Trump’s call with Putin was a mistake because it “proves” Russian leaders and lowered Ukraine’s morale. But he added: “When President Trump says that as part of the deal, there must be European troops, we will have to be asked to provide them, so sooner or later we have to be involved.”

Still, the government’s mixed message will raise concerns that Trump will agree to a deal with Putin to verify the illegal invasion and then impose it on Ukraine. While most foreign policy realists accept that Ukraine will not take back all the land Russia has captured, Trump has been criticized for abandoning leverage by phone calls with Russian leaders. As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, he said the peace agreement would not include the path to NATO’s Ukrainian membership and would not involve U.S. peacekeeping forces. Later, Heggs and other government officials downplayed some of these statements.

When Trump last week promoted Russia’s foreign policy stance rather than the West, the distorted speed attempt to make Putin fully recovered made people feel exacerbated. For example, the president appears to sympathize with Putin’s reason for the invasion and calls on him to return to the industrialized country after Russia annexed by Crimea in 2014. The absence of negotiations between Ukraine and Kiev negotiators in Saudi Arabia also seems to have severely weakened the stance of Western negotiations. European officials may have more sympathy for Ukraine than Trump – so if they don’t engage in any comprehensive negotiations, Zelensky’s position could be severely lowered.

Meanwhile, he decided to meet with leaders of the far-right anti-immigrant AFD party in the attack on European democracy a few days before the German election and decided to meet with European leaders. The speech is a clear sign of the Trump administration’s intention to promote many populist movements that caused dark echoes on the continent twice destroyed by the war in the 20th century. Hegseth’s blunt warning in Brussels last week that Europeans need to “have conventional security on the African continent” is widely seen as Trump’s resentment to NATO and its security umbrella sign.

All of this is music from Putin’s ears, as it shows that his status as an international pariah is over and that he has a deal with Ukraine that will consolidate his territorial gains. Trump’s open sectors within NATO are achieving one of Russia’s most important foreign policy goals.

“It’s really like Easter, Hanukkah, Christmas, Vladimir Putin’s birthday, everything is happening in one day,” said Alexander Gabuev, director of the Center for European Center in Russia, Carnegie ) told CNN’s Bianna Golodryga on Sunday. “No champagne will be refrigerated and then bring the refrigerator to the refrigerator, and the other bottles are not decorated.”

France holds an emergency meeting

The crisis in transatlantic relations prompted French President Emmanuel Macron to convene on Monday with leaders from Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark as well as heads of the European Commission, the European Commission and NATO Informal meeting. Secretary-General.

While Trump’s hostility to World War II security policy 80 years later was a stunning shift in U.S. policy and a sign of his resentment to internationalist goals, Europe has made itself vulnerable to the trend of more isolatedism in U.S. policy. These policies have long been part of the U.S. DNA.

Years of strangling the defense budget have prepared most non-U.S. NATO members for the mission to defend Europe, and the main role the Trump administration is now demanding. The rapid increase in defense spending will mean a painful choice for leaders who have worked to fund welfare states and are hampered by low-growth economies.

But there are already some signs that the Trump administration’s tough stance is to focus when leaders try to impress the president. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who plans to meet with Trump in the coming days, said he is willing to send British troops to Ukraine as part of any peace deal. European countries “must increase our defense spending and play a greater role in NATO,” Starmer wrote in the Daily Telegraph on Monday, but added that U.S. support remains crucial to ensuring peace.

Negotiations in Saudi Arabia will also highlight another evolving theme in international relations – the influence of the kingdom, due to its growing presence in Mohammed Bin Salman’s affairs in Middle East Many roles prove the sports league and its hosting of the 2034 FIFA World Cup.

Trump has made no secret of his admiration for strong-armed leaders, and the prince and Putin have a close relationship. A source close to the Saudi court told CNN’s Alex Marquardt that presiding over the negotiations would strengthen Saudi Arabia’s image and reputation and show them one of the most important issues of the day.

Saudi Arabia is crucial to Trump’s other foreign policy goal – ending the war in Gaza. The government is trying to trick Saudis and Israel into a diplomatic normalization agreement that could reshape the geopolitics of the Middle East and consolidate the Arab front against Iran. But Saudi Arabia is politically impossible without a path to the Palestinian state. Arab countries have worked hard to oppose Trump’s extraordinary plan to evacuate Palestinians from Gaza in large numbers, which would be a form of ethnic cleansing.

Trump’s fantastic plan for the U.S. to “own” and rebuild Gaza, and his apparent desire to hold talks with Putin in Ukraine, underscores the risks of his unorthodox diplomatic approach. But the president at a unique moment is the White House’s B ack, which provides an opportunity to seek agreements that might make the United States and the world safer — that is, unless he ink ignores serious security implications.

Sikorski warned in Munich that the president was working on a huge bet.

“The credibility of the United States depends on how this war ends (in Ukraine), not only the Trump administration, but the United States itself.”

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