Putin wants to talk to Trump and praise him; ‘Trump is sensitive to praise’

Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to restore contact with the United States now that Donald Trump is returning as president. He wants to talk to Trump and hopes that one day relations with the US will be restored. Putin also congratulated Trump on his election victory. “Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the talks could take place before the inauguration on January 20,” Russian journalist Joost Bosman reported.

Trump announced that he has called around seventy world leaders after his election victory. However, he has not spoken to Putin yet, but Trump says he plans to speak to the Russian leader. “I think we will talk,” the incoming US president said of the possible link with Putin.

Trump promised during the election campaign to call Putin and conclude a peace agreement with Ukraine immediately after winning the election. He repeatedly suggested that he wanted to scale back or end US aid to Kyiv and that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky might have to accept territorial losses to end the fighting.

The Russian president also gave Trump many compliments, Bosman heard. He called the future president a ‘confident man’. Putin’s statements can be seen as something special, the correspondent thinks. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov pointed out earlier this week that Russia still considers the US an ‘enemy state’ with which it is at war in Ukraine. That is indeed a distortion of reality, but that is how the Russians see it.’

So it is logical that no conversation has yet taken place between Trump and Putin. “If Putin had called Trump immediately to congratulate him, Putin could have been interpreted as a kind of knee-bending to the United States, which Russia wanted to prevent .

One suspects that Russia is very happy with Trump’s victory. Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, said in an interview that he thinks people in the Kremlin are “very happy” with the election results. “Putin thinks he knows how to play Trump and intends to use that to the benefit of the Russians.”

Nobel Peace Prize

Bosman says he can imagine that. “Trump is someone who is sensitive to suggestions,” he also emphasizes. So the broad positive words that Putin had for Trump will not be expressed without awareness. Bosman also refers to story from the independent Russian newspaper The Moscow Times. “It describes how the Kremlin sees the arrival of Trump. Trump wants to stop the war in Ukraine, a also involves strong personal considerations.’ Trump would like to receive the Nobel Peace Prize during his presidency, according to Russian officials.

According to the correspondent, this also shows what opportunities there are for Putin during Trump’s presidency. “There are opportunities for Putin to move Trump in that direction.”

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