Putin just calls Trump a ‘smart person’….
That’s ALL Donald gets….
The US President HAS been flexing in the media EVERWHERE….
We have begun to point out that Trump’s threats are actually being curtailed by Reality in Immigration and Tariff actions…
We can now add another Foreign Affairs situation…
While Trump’s threat got Israel and Hamas to impose a cease fire….
No such thing has occurred with Russia/Putin and Ukraine/Zelensky…..
The Russian President has been around the block for decades….
Donald Trump does NOT get over with just threat’s ….
And Putin reminds the American President that BOTH need their economies need something in common….
Lower oil prices….
( Russia IS a World oil exporter which Trump says could be hit with sanctions, which woiuld drive Up World/American oil/gas prices stupid.. )
This while the Ukraine IS bombing Russian oil depots that Putin would like trump to get Ukraine to stop doing also ….
President Vladimir V. Putin on Friday brushed aside President Trump’s threat of new sanctions against Russia, saying he doubted that Mr. Trump would make a move that would “harm the American economy,” as the leaders continued jockeying for position ahead of talks that both men have said they want.
Mr. Putin, in comments to Russian state television broadcast Friday, repeated his desire for a meeting with Mr. Trump. But while Mr. Trump has also said he wants to talk to Mr. Putin, neither the White House nor the Kremlin have said when a meeting — or even a phone call — might take place.
“He is not only a smart person, he is a pragmatic person, and I can hardly imagine that decisions will be made that would harm the American economy itself,” Mr. Putin said, referring to the possibility of new sanctions against Russia while heaping new praise on Mr. Trump.
“It is probably better for us to meet and, based on today’s realities, talk calmly about all areas that are of interest to both the U.S. and Russia,” Mr. Putin added.
Mr. Trump on Wednesday threatened “high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions” on Russian goods if Mr. Putin didn’t make a deal to “STOP this ridiculous war” in Ukraine. (To be sure, U.S. imports of Russian goods totaled a tiny $2.9 billion last year.)
Mr. Putin repeated his frequent claim that Russia is open to negotiations on “the Ukrainian problem,” but that Ukraine needed to lift a 2022 decree that declared talks with Mr. Putin “impossible.” Many analysts say that Mr. Putin appears confident in Russia’s ability to outlast Ukraine and the West, and that he would seek to impose Russia’s terms in any negotiations….
image….President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said he had a desire to meet and “talk calmly” with President Trump.Credit…Pool photo by Ramil Sitdikov
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