Russia-Ukraine War
Russia-Ukraine War
Russia-Ukraine War
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President Trump arrives at the Russian leader with threats; Vladimir Putin responds with compliments. But there are notable signs in its fair, a revived discussion about the control of nuclear weapons.
By David E. Sanger and Anton Troianovski
David E. Sanger, who covered US presidents, Washington reported. Anton Troianovski, who covers Russia, reported in Berlin.
They’ve become conscientiously conscientious for seven days: the pretend invitations to talk, combining a few jabs with ego, suggesting that the only way to put an end to the Ukraine war is for the two to meet, without the crashed Ukrainian
President Trump and Vladimir V. Putin, whose appointment has been the subject of mystery and psychodrama during Trump’s first term, are back. But it is not an undeniable re-run. mr. Trump was unusually harsh in his rhetoric last week, claiming that Putin “destroyed Russia” and risking the country with sanctions and customs costs if he didn’t show up at the negotiating table, a rather empty risk tally that holds up in the small amount of industry among the United States. And Russia those days.
Calculating and underestimating as always, Mr. Putin responded with flattery, agreeing with Mr. Trump that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine if Mr. Trump had been president 3 years ago. He repeated that he was in a position to sit down and negotiate the fate of Europe, the superpower of the superpower, the leader of the leader.
So far, they haven’t spoken, Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Saturday night that “he needs to communicate, and we’ll be in touch soon. “As they set the bar for this first conversation, they’re sending signals that they’re okay with that they’re sending to the signals that they’re sending to the signals that they’re sending to the signals that they’re sending to I need to negotiate more than just Ukraine, a war that, in Mr. Putin, it is just one of the arenas in which the West is waging its own fight.
The two men appear to be contemplating taking all the data between Moscow and Washington, in all likelihood adding talks on revived nuclear weapons, a verbal exchange that has an imminent deadline: the main treaty restricting the two nations’ arsenals almost precisely expires a precision. year. After that, they would be on the loose to continue the kind of arms race that the Global has not noticed since most of the internal days of the Cold War.
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