{"id":1544439,"date":"2025-06-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1544439"},"modified":"2025-06-30T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:00:00","slug":"continued-russian-us-talks-prove-that-putin-doesnt-think-that-trump-duped-iran-with-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/continued-russian-us-talks-prove-that-putin-doesnt-think-that-trump-duped-iran-with-diplomacy\/1544439\/","title":{"rendered":"Continued Russian-US Talks Prove That Putin Doesn’t Think That Trump Duped Iran With Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued Russian-US Talks Prove That Putin Doesn’t Think That Trump Duped Iran With Diplomacy<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov\u00a0confirmed<\/a>\u00a0last week that the US\u2019\u00a0bombing of several nuclear sites<\/a>\u00a0in Iran won\u2019t affect their bilateral dialogue, declaring that \u201cThese are independent processes.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

This is significant since many observers speculated that Trump duped Iran with diplomacy while supposedly plotting to attack it this entire time. If true, then it would follow that he might also be duping Russia too, albeit not in preparation of a direct US attack but in pursuit of some other nebulous goal.<\/p>\n

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Putin doesn\u2019t adhere to that interpretation, however, which is also proven by him later\u00a0talking about<\/a>\u00a0his \u201cgreat respect\u201d for Trump and praising his \u201csincere commitment\u201d to peace in Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Skeptics might speculate that he\u2019s playing \u201c5D chess\u201d as part of some \u201cmaster plan\u201d to \u201cpsyche out\u201d the US but that doesn\u2019t make much sense.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no point in continuing a dialogue if one of the parties is convinced that the other isn\u2019t negotiating in good faith. That would be a total waste of time and resources.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Russian politicians and experts were\u00a0very critical<\/a>\u00a0of Trump\u2019s decision to bomb Iran, as was the country\u2019s\u00a0Permanent Representative at the UN<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Their polemics don\u2019t equate to Putin supposedly suspecting Trump of foul play in the US\u2019 talks with Iran, however, but they do show that Russia was very displeased with what he ended up doing even though it later expressed cautious optimism about the\u00a0ceasefire<\/a>\u00a0that he claimed credit for brokering. All of this is\u00a0consistent with Russian policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On that topic, Russia is\u00a0also interested<\/a>\u00a0in a ceasefire with Ukraine, but only on its terms.<\/strong> These include Ukraine withdrawing from the entirety of the disputed regions, declaring that it\u2019ll no longer pursue NATO membership, and Western countries cutting off arms shipments to it, among other demands. Russia believes that continued dialogue with the US can lead to Trump ultimately\u00a0coercing Zelensky<\/a>\u00a0into these concessions, to which end Putin offered him a strategic resource-centric partnership as an incentive.<\/p>\n

The idea is that the US could invest in Russia\u2019s rare earth and Arctic energy industries, with the first providing the US with its sought-after minerals and the second leading to them jointly managing the global oil and natural gas markets, thus giving each of them stakes in the other\u2019s success. This could then in turn help ensure that relations remain manageable even if another crisis unexpectedly erupts. With time, Russia and the US would then reshape the world order, but only if their d\u00e9tente remains on track.<\/p>\n

Therein lies the importance of continued Russian-US dialogue, which Putin is committed to in spite of speculation that Trump duped Iran with diplomacy ahead of attacking it.<\/strong> From his perspective, Trump isn\u2019t just saying the right things about the conflict (most of the time at least), but he more importantly hasn\u2019t doubled down on military-intelligence aid to Ukraine. Simply put, it\u2019s Trump\u2019s actions (or lack thereof in this case) that impress Putin, not his words, which he\u2019d be foolish to take at face value.<\/p>\n

That said, there\u2019s no guarantee that Putin can convince Trump to coerce Zelensky into his demanded concessions, and the potential failure of their talks could indeed lead to the US escalating its involvement in Ukraine and therefore worsening tensions with Russia. Even so, Putin won\u2019t prematurely abandon diplomacy just because some speculate that the US never truly intended to reach a deal with Iran, the assessment of which he doesn\u2019t share as confirmed by his own and Peskov\u2019s recent statements.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 06\/30\/2025 – 02:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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Continued Russian-US Talks Prove That Putin Doesn’t Think That Trump Duped Iran With Diplomacy Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov\u00a0confirmed\u00a0last week…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1544440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1544440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}