Although the failure of Donald Trump and his Vladimir Putin to reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine could cause despair, for European leaders maybe it is one Breath of relief, The New York Times writes.
The reason is nothing more than Volodimir Zelenski and European leaders believed that Donald Trump would retreat to Vladimir Potin’s territorial demands and would have forced the Ukrainian president either to lost more than 20% of his countryeither reject a peace agreement which can be risked.
In their analysis the New York Times They say that Volodimir Zelenski may in the end need to make this choice.
Donald Trump took off from Alaska after his conversation with Vladimir Putin, without having achieved the most basic and first step: a temporary ceasefire which would allow further negotiations.
It was exactly the result, he told reporters earlier on Friday, with which he would not be “happy”. Anyway Donald Trump “flirts” with the idea of getting Nobel Peace. The war raging in Ukraine seems to spoil his plans.
Putin insisted that “by making this course we can reach an agreement and the faster the better.”
The American was no more specific. In Interview given by Donald Trump to Fox Newsstated that The responsibility to reach a ceasefire agreement was now in the hand of Volodimir Zelenski.
But even if Trump did not make concessions about Ukrainian territory, undoubtedly left Zelensky anxious for the way he handled the Russian leader.
The US president spoken enthusiastically about his Russian counterpart, calling Vladimir. Don’t forget and the Donald Trump’s applause on the arrival of Vladimir Putin, who was then cut by the White House in the editing.
Trump said that he and Putin “did not get there” (the agreement), but tried to present their discussion as another step in the process and talked about another brief meeting – pushing Putin to propose to him to come to Moscow.
But the fact that the two men were not willing to answer a single question from journalists- something rare for Talkan Trump who is always willing to describe his latest agreement- made it clear that they existed few things to discussat least for the time being.
In fact, Putin won the greatest gift of everything: His reassessment to the society of world leaders. Since the beginning of the day, after landing him on the large American air base, he seemed to have control.
He got off his plane, smiling as he stepped foot in the US for the first time after a decade. He entered Trump’s limousine for a short route to the site of their meeting and when the discussion ended, Trump granted his traditional privilege as a host to start the press conference.
Instead, Putin first made his comments, Considering the difficulties he faced in his collaboration with former President Joe Biden and confirming Trump’s claim that if he was president in 2022, the war in Ukraine would not have begun.
It may take days for the next steps to be decided.
Putin managed to achieve an important war goal: He came out of the “box” of the authoritarian leader and at the expense of which he was pending arrest for war crimes, and the US president welcomed him as a peacemaker.
Putin managed to save time. Suspended discussions of new sanctions without actually giving anything.
How much this image will last remains unknown, though the attitude it lasted for less than 4 hours on American soil is an example of an impressive diplomacy.