Donald Trump during a speech in Florida on July 15. MARCO BELLO / REUTERS
The former president of the United States, who will again be a candidate for the White House in 2024, intends to play on his “good relations” with Zelensky and Putin to quickly bring them to the negotiating table.
If re-elected President of the United States in 2024, Donald Trump will end the war in Ukraine.in one day“. The former head of state assured him, in early May, during an interview with the conservative English news channel GB News, at the microphone of Nigel Farage, architect of Brexit. Candidate for a second term in 2024, the sulphurous American billionaire returned in detail to this famous plan, during a program broadcast on Fox News Sunday July 16.
To influence the outcome of the conflict, Donald Trump intends above all to use his “good relationswith the Ukrainian and Russian presidents, Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin, to force them to sit down at the negotiating table. “I know Zelensky very well, and Putin even betterargued the former president. I had a very good relationship with the two».
A utopian vision
When the Fox News reporter who interrogates him retorts that these are not his “relationsthat will stop the bombings, Trump clarifies his words. “I would say to Zelensky: enough, you have to make a deal“, decides the former president. “And I would say to Putin: if you don’t reach an agreement, we are going to give a lot (to Ukraine, editor’s note). More than they ever got if we must“. And to insist:I’ll close the deal in one day».
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If these declarations give rise to a smile, it is because they seem, in the current state of things, perfectly utopian, since the demands of each camp remain totally incompatible. At the beginning of the year, Vladimir Putin made it clear that he would only negotiate if Ukraine accepted the “new territorial realities”, namely the annexation of the four Ukrainian oblasts of Donestk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhya.
For its part, Ukraine demands the restoration of “territorial integrityof the country, thus the return to the pre-war borders, as well as compensation and punishment for war crimes. Two positions, for the time being, irreconcilable.
Joe Bidenhas no idea what’s going on»
Donald Trump also took advantage of his time on Fox News to scratch his successor Joe Biden, whom he accuses of not being able to deal with world leaders. These latter “are smart people, including Macron in France, including Putinunderlined the former tenant of the White House. These people are lively, tough, generally vicious and at the top of their game.“. Conversely, according to him, Joe Biden “has no idea what’s going on“, in a period “the most dangerous in history” the United States.
2023-07-17 16:17:53
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