{"id":1532877,"date":"2025-04-28T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1532877"},"modified":"2025-04-28T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:20:00","slug":"five-significant-disagreements-account-for-trumps-newfound-anger-with-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/five-significant-disagreements-account-for-trumps-newfound-anger-with-putin\/1532877\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Significant Disagreements Account For Trump’s Newfound Anger With Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five Significant Disagreements Account For Trump’s Newfound Anger With Putin<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The peace process might go kaput if they can\u2019t resolve these issues…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Trump\u00a0speculated<\/a>\u00a0that Russia\u2019s bombing of civilian areas might signal that \u201cmaybe [Putin] doesn\u2019t want to stop the war, he\u2019s just tapping me along\u201d,<\/strong><\/em> and then reiterated his earlier threat to impose \u201csecondary sanctions\u201d against those who violate the US\u2019 primary ones, which was analyzed\u00a0here<\/a>. This followed Trump\u2019s latest meeting with Zelensky, who might have negatively influenced over his\u00a0hitherto largely positive perceptions<\/a>\u00a0of Putin, and comes after reports that the US has\u00a0finalized its peace plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Five significant disagreements that have emerged throughout the course of negotiations account for Trump\u2019s volte-face toward Putin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first was referenced by Trump in his post where he condemned Russia\u2019s bombing of civilian areas<\/strong>. Putin\u00a0argued<\/a>\u00a0earlier in April that Russia is targeting Ukrainian troops there, but the optics of continued Russian strikes against civilian areas amidst peace talks with the US evidently left a very negative impression on Trump, who now doubts Putin\u2019s commitment to peace.<\/p>\n

The second concerns European peacekeepers in Ukraine,<\/strong> which the US\u2019 reportedly finalized peace plan suggests despite Russia opposing it. Although Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth\u00a0already declared<\/a>\u00a0that the US won\u2019t extend Article 5 mutual defense guarantees to NATO countries\u2019 troops in Ukraine, Russia fears that the US could be manipulated by the Europeans into mission creep if the latter deploy there. Putin therefore prefers for there to be no ambiguity about this and for Trump to scrub it from his plan.<\/p>\n

Third, it\u2019s unclear whether Ukraine will be obligated to at least partially demilitarize<\/strong> like Kiev provisionally agreed to do during spring 2022\u2019s ultimately failed peace talks, which is one of Russia\u2019s explicitly declared goals in the conflict. Trump is reluctant to support this since he seems to believe that it could embolden Putin to recommence hostilities in the future, especially in the absence of European peacekeepers, but this demand isn\u2019t something that Putin could easily walk away from.<\/p>\n

The fourth disagreement is over the US\u2019 refusal to accede to Russia\u2019s demand for coercing Ukraine into withdrawing from the disputed territories that are still under Kiev\u2019s control. <\/strong>The\u00a0New York Times<\/a>\u00a0cited a source who described this as \u201cunreasonable and unachievable\u201d, but it\u2019s\u00a0imperative for Russia<\/a>\u00a0after the Kremlin recognized the entirety of these regions as Russian following September 2022\u2019s referenda. Just like with demilitarization, Putin also can\u2019t easily walk away from this either, hence the disagreement.<\/p>\n

And finally, the US\u2019 reportedly finalized peace plan also requests that Russia hand over the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant and Kakhovka Dam to the US<\/strong>, which is as unacceptable for Putin as the preceding points of accepting European peacekeepers, dropping demilitarization, and curbing his territorial claims. All five disagreements, including the first-mentioned one about Russia\u2019s continued strikes against military targets in civilian areas, collectively contributed to this impasse right before the diplomatic finish line.<\/p>\n

If Putin and Trump can\u2019t resolve these issues, after which Trump would then also have to get Zelensky to agree to their new deal, then the peace process will probably go kaput.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Putin and Trump are incentivized to resolve their disputes due to how mutually beneficial the\u00a0nascent<\/a>\u00a0Russian<\/a>–US<\/a>\u00a0\u201cNew<\/a>\u00a0D\u00e9tente<\/a>\u201d is while Zelensky would struggle to continue fighting if the US once again\u00a0cuts off military aid<\/a>\u00a0as punishment for rejecting whatever those two agree to. Be that as it may, it\u2019ll still be very difficult to break this deadlock.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 04\/28\/2025 – 13:20<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/five-significant-disagreements-account-trumps-newfound-anger-putin<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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