“The Kremlin believes that Trump is more interested in conducting a personal vendet with Zelensky and subordinating the Ukrainian governor to its will than to target Russia.”, – WRITE: www.unian.ua
The Kremlin believes that Trump is more interested in conducting a personal vendet with Zelensky and subordinating the Ukrainian governor to its will than to target Russia.
Trump promised to strengthen sanctions against Russia, but the corresponding reaction was sluggish / UNIAN collage, photo Reuters, GettyimagesDespite the threats of Donald Trump to apply new serious sanctions to Russia if it continues to fire Ukraine with drones and missiles, the Russians do not seem to take these statements seriously. According to the article for The Spectator, the political scientist, the chairman of the Consulting company Mayak Intelligence, the author of about 30 books on Russia Mark Galeotti, such a restrained approach is surprising, because in the past Moscow with fury responded with threat to further sanctions. However, Galeotti notes, there are three main reasons for such a reaction.
1. “Trump is not a friend.”The first reason is that, no matter how much the Russians were delighted with how convenient to them were Trump’s recent initiatives, they were not subjected to the thought in the liberal western circles that they were bought and paid. According to the Russian parliamentarian Andrey Kartpolov, “Trump is not a friend.”
In Russia, its interests, and Trump and the US in their own, and although they now seem agreed, it will inevitably change.
2. Trump treats Russia and Ukraine differentlyThe reason is not only in his unclear respect for Vladimir Putin, but also that he sees these two countries as very different.
“Russia is the opposite interlocutor who needs to lure at the negotiating table before the time comes for serious pressure. Ukraine seems to consider Ukraine an ungrateful vassal, who needs to be shown who is here,” Galeotti writes.
So so far, unless the Russians find a direct “disrespect” to Trump – they feel sufficiently safe.
3. “New sanctions are afraid of nothing.”As Galeotti writes, Moscow has confidence – fair or not – that new sanctions are afraid of nothing.
“After three years of personal and sectoral measures, the real struggle for the event is to identify and close the loopholes used by the Russians, only to find new ones,” he notes.
Yes, one Moscow economist, close to the Kremlin, suggested that “the only new measures that the West could take to have a serious importance would also be so destructive for them that they would not dare to use them.”
“Thus, the Kremlin’s position is a mixture of caution and self -reliance. They do not believe that their relationship with Trump will definitely never be spoiled, but now they believe that he is more interested in leading a personal vendet with Zelensky and subordinate Ukraine to his freedom.
Trump promised sanctions againstAs UNIAN wrote, Trump urged Moscow to go to talk immediately. According to him, the United States will impose large -scale sanctions against the Russian Federation if the country does not agree to negotiate.
At the same time, former US President Donald Trump adviser to National Security John Bolton said threats of sanctions against the Russian Federation were empty. According to him, Russia has successfully learned to bypass restrictions, including financial ones.
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