THe did not take the Trump administration to the red lines in Ukraine in its talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday: it cares about the bottom line. State Secretary Marco Rubio, emphasized that when he said the two sides would create a team, not only to support Ukraine’s peace talks but also to explore “not Kapani – Believing opportunities “to partner with Moscow geopolitically” and, frankly, economically “that can result.
Kyiv and other European chapters still remain throughout the scope of Donald Trump’s mockery when it comes to world activities, and will not give up the people who caught them. But it should not surprise that business dealings are high on the agenda. Vladimir Putin loves to end his country’s economic separation. Russia makes the case that American energy companies and others can earn free of charge by doing business together again.
For Mr. Trump, his two major interests – money and power – are not only interrelated but fungible, as the US goals and his personal interests often do not understand him. (This is a man who launched his own cryptocurrency token days before returning to the White House, and as he sought to ease the regulation of the industry).
When he talks about the future of Ukraine or Gaza, he does not speak of non-human rights and security, life and home, but with putting our hands on $ 500bn of minerals and a “large real-estate site” according to to the mention. He believes in cutting deals, not making peace. Among his foreign policy team is Steve Witkoff, not a diplomat but a billions of real-estate developer and golf buddy. Mr. Witkoff was first appointed as the Envoy of the Middle East and was then sent to arrange in Moscow. Russia’s Sovereign wealth fund Kirill Dmitriev, also in Riyadh – while Ukraine and European allies were rejected by a seat.
Mr. Trump’s companionship of wealth and strength was obvious even before he took office for the first time. He suggested that he can use Taiwan as an action in China on issues including trade. John Bolton, who became a national security advisor, later said (though Mr. Trump denied it) that the President begged China’s leader Xi Jinping, to ensure he would win the next election, “Stress[ing] The importance of … increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat to electoral outcome ”.
Mr. Trump’s Middle East policy is not only pleasing to his Evangelical Christian supporters. His disturbing proposal to clean up ethnic Palestinians from Gaza, which allows the construction of an American “riviera”, is surprising but in many way Also the inhabitants of Israel. His daughter-in-law, Jared Kushner, a former real-estate developer who will be charged with Middle East policy administration in Mr. Trump’s first term, suggested last year as Gaza’s “Waterfront” can be “very important”. .
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has tried to capitalize Mr Trump’s economic transactionalism by offering access to Ukraine’s resources, especially minerals, in exchange for security. He caught Mr. Trump’s attention – but the terms of the resulting US demand look less like diplomacy than extortion. The US president values everything and knows the value of nothing. Others should try to show him that his plans will not come as cheaply as he believes.
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