{"id":1502216,"date":"2024-11-14T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1502216"},"modified":"2024-11-14T03:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T08:35:00","slug":"did-trump-really-call-putin-late-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/did-trump-really-call-putin-late-last-week\/1502216\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Trump Really Call Putin Late Last Week?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did Trump Really Call Putin Late Last Week?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

There are reasons to doubt WaPo\u2019s report…<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Washington Post<\/a>\u2019s (WaPo) report alleging that Trump called Putin the Thursday after he won the election and told him not to escalate the conflict was contradicted by both the Kremlin and Kiev. The first called it \u201cpure fiction<\/a>\u201d while the second said that it was \u201cunaware<\/a>\u201d of the call despite allegedly being informed of it.<\/strong> The Trump team hasn\u2019t commented on it at the time of writing. Nevertheless, the report\u2019s timeframe raises questions about its credibility, which will now be elaborated on.<\/p>\n

Putin participated in his traditional Q&A session that evening at the Valdai Club\u2019s annual meeting, which lasted\u00a0until around midnight<\/a>. He claimed not to have talked to Trump by that time but said that he\u2019d be interested in speaking with him if he calls.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If WaPo\u2019s report is correct, then it means that Putin either talked to Trump before the aforesaid event but lied about it or that he talked to him sometime afterwards but before 8am Moscow time, which would be midnight of the next day at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n

It can only be speculated why Putin would lie about this if that\u2019s indeed what happened, which is unlikely, and it\u2019s also equally unlikely that he\u2019d agree to have a detailed discussion with Trump between midnight and 8am in the morning after the prior evening\u2019s long Q&A session.<\/strong> After all, these sorts of calls aren\u2019t impromptu but are arranged ahead of time, and Putin could always have rescheduled. Therefore, WaPo\u2019s report is probably fake news, thus making one wonder why it was published in the first place.<\/p>\n

One possibility is that someone on his team was tasked with introducing the report\u2019s two narratives, that Trump told Putin not to escalate but also informed Ukraine of the call too, into the discourse. <\/strong>This could have been done to test the water by gauging their reactions to what he might have planned to do. Another possibility is that subversive elements close to him wanted to undermine his planned call. And finally, the last possibility is that it was made up, whether by WaPo or whoever else for whatever reason.<\/p>\n

In the order that they were shared, the first \u201ctrial run\u201d theory would have shown that Russia is uncomfortable with being told what to do while Ukraine doesn\u2019t want to be left out of the loop. As for the second, both might now know what to expect, but Trump could also switch it up to surprise them. Regarding the last one, it drove traffic to WaPo\u2019s site and reaffirmed the perception of them as one of the preferred outlets for insiders to leak to, but it had no noticeable effect beyond that.<\/p>\n

Looking forward, the first official Putin-Trump call (whenever it may be and assuming that WaPo\u2019s report is fake news as was argued) will probably see the returning American leader sharing more details with his Russian counterpart about exactly what he has in mind for ending the Ukrainian Conflict.<\/strong> Readers can learn more about what that might look like\u00a0here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>, and\u00a0here<\/a>. It\u2019ll take more than one call to achieve this, most likely at least one in-person meeting too, but everything is moving in that direction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 11\/13\/2024 – 22:35<\/span><\/p>\n

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