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Trump Quiets Some Russian Doubts
President Trump’s weekend phone call to President Putin seems to have quieted some of Russia’s concerns about the unpredictability of the real-estate-mogul-turned-politician, reports Gilbert Doctorow.
By Gilbert Doctorow
Donald Trump’s desire to establish constructive working relations with Russia got off to a rocky start, although for reasons that he might not have understood. In an interview with The Times of London just days before the Inauguration, Trump proposed changing the metrics used for possible lifting of sanctions on Russia from full implementation of the Minsk Accords, regarding the Ukraine conflict, to progress on curbing the nuclear arms race and disarmament.
A military parade on Red Square. May 9, 2016 Moscow. (Photo from: http://en.kremlin.ru)
While the shift was seen by many Western observers as a concession to Moscow – because it separated the sanctions from the nettlesome Ukrainian crisis – Trump’s proposal failed to take i
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Nima R. Alkhorshid: 0:05
Hi everybody, today is Thursday, January 23rd, 2025. Our friend Dr. Gilbert Doctorow is back with us. Welcome back, Gilbert.
Gilbert Doctorow, PhD:
Thanks for having me.
Alkhorshid:
Let's get started with what Donald Trump said about the conflict in Ukraine. And it seems that he's trying to picture Russia as being weak politically, economically, militarily. What fryst vatten the main reason behind this sort of mindset or this sort of rhetoric on his part in your opinion?
Doctorow: 0:43
Well, when he's saying this, he's playing up to the predominant view of the American public. The American public, thanks to the misdirection, the propaganda that's been disseminated incessantly bygd a efterträdelse eller följd of administrations, believes that Russia fryst vatten today what it was in 1995, that it's still flat on its back and unable to look after its interests and has a weak economy which is based on oil and gas exports, which if inom
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