There is some Zelig on him. Like that Woody Allen character who mimicized with the characters around him, Donald Trump changes his positions according to the leadership with which he is.
In the endearing film of the 80s, Leonard Zelig fell curlers in Tirabuzón from his temples if he was with orthodox Jews, the skin became black if he was with African Americans and thus with the ethnic, social or cultural groups with which he occasionally mixed. The difference is that the human chameleon that Allen created sought to go unnoticed, while Trump always tries to highlight, be leading.
That is why after the summit in Alaska, Zelesnki and the European leaders immediately claimed a meeting at the White House. And this time the Ukrainian president would not go alone, running the risk of another ambush like the one they had in the Oval Office on February 28. This time, he reached the presidential mansion of Pennsylvania Avenue accompanied by several European leaders who would help him resist Trump’s onslaught.
Everyone crossed the Atlantic without too many expectations. In the end, it is clear that the American president hates European leaders and, in particular, to Volodimir Zelenski; while feeling for Vladimir Putin a strong attraction.
Trump identifies with the conservative ultra -nationalism of the Russian president and with his geopolitical conception based on territorial expansionism. Putin convinced him that Russia is destined to lead Europe in the same way that the United States must prevail from the Central American Isthmus to the Canadian Arctic and Greenland.
It was the head of the Kremlin who encouraged him to claim the Panama Canal and the annexation of Canada and the immense and frozen island linked to the kingdom of Denmark.
European leaders are clear that Ukraine is not among the priorities of the Trump agenda. With regard to Russia, the priorities of the New York tycoon are, on the one hand, the big businesses that US businessmen can do in the Euroasy giant and trade agreements that Washington and Moscow can reach, while, on the other hand, there is what obsesses it so much: add points to obtain the Nobel Peace Prize.
Despising Zelenski and feeling for the European leadership the same as he feels for journalists, environmentalists, globalists and democratic leaders such as Obama, Biden, Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, when he thinks the Russian-Ukrainian conflict what Trump prioritizes is to use the strategic advantage of governing the power that more armaments and ammunition supplied and could return to Ucrania. Use it to ensure that the president of Russia opens possibilities of succulent businesses and commercial agreements, in addition to influencing rulers close to the Kremlin such as the Hungarian Viktor Orban, the Slovak Robert Fico and the Serbian Aleksandar Vucic, among others, to apply to the Nobel.
Probably, it also pretends that the former KGB chief who heads the Russian autocracy destroys or at least desist from using any document, filming or other tests that have obtained his espionage apparatus of everything compromising that has been found on his businesses and private events in Russia.
As if it were not enough to have blackmail instruments such as evidence of alleged organic parties, murky bus Ideas and promises to accumulate points that bring it closer to the Nobel Peace.
That at the end of the meeting, both leaders have described the meeting as successful although the war in Ukraine has not agreed anything, proves that, as former security counselor John Bolton said, in the best case “Trump did not lose, but Putin was the clear winner.”
He managed to get out of international isolation having no less than the United States. Also that the promise that had made its host to Europe and Ukraine, on “very serious consequences” for Russia if Alaska did not remember a high fire, would not be remembered.
The Russian leader did not even talk about a high fire and managed to repeat Trump what he has been raising Moscow for a long time: better than agreeing a high fire is to move towards a peace agreement.
In addition, the president of Russia avoids talking about reintegrating Ukrainian lands occupied by his army and, on the contrary, he conditioned a possible peace agreement that Ukraine withdraw his forces from the lands that he still controls in Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporiyia and Jerson. That is, as the trade unionists who start from asking for a figure higher than the one they are willing to accept in the joint negotiation, Putin began claiming more territory than they have managed to occupy their troops, to have a margin of negotiation without risking a centimeter of what has already been conquered.
By saying that they had advanced a lot, although not in the Ukraine issue (nothing less), which left Trump in sight is that he accepted the mirror that the Russian leader took, just like the Spanish conquerors with the Native Americans.
As soon as he listened to the cry in the sky that the Europeans put in the face of such an advantage obtained by the power that this war began invading the neighboring country, that is, violating the principle that international borders are not modified by force, Trump has account that he did not fulfill what he had promised only two days before at the virtual meeting with Zelenski and the leaders of the EU. Then he tried to balance the goals, announcing that to any agreement to end the war, Ukraine must approve.
What the New York tycoon did not say is that he can twist the Ukrainian will to lose the minimum indispensable of his territory. How?: Keeping the restrictions on the supply of weapons and ammunition to kyiv. Without that military support from Washington, Ukraine would be impossible to achieve his aspiration on the battlefield.
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