Yaroslav Trofimov
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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WSJ What’s News · ‘Honest and Accurate’: Trump Names His Pick for Labor Data Body · 12 Aug 2025
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Putin's goal has always been the same since this war began.
He wants a puppet regime in Ukraine, if not the alt-right annexation of all of Ukraine.
And so he doesn't see President Zelensky of Ukraine as a legitimate leader, and therefore he refuses to meet with him.
Peace in Ukraine is realistic if President Putin decides that it's in his interest to end the war.
And right now, he doesn't seem to be interested in that because he thinks that on one hand, he is winning on the battlefield with the Russian army advancing.
And on the other hand, he is not paying any price for that diplomatically because President Trump, after so many threats, has let his deadline for secondary sanctions on Russia lapse without consequence.
For Putin, really, it's a win-win situation.
If he manages to get concessions from the Trump administration on Ukraine to give up land, great.
If he can settle a war on his own terms, it'll be fantastic news for Russia.
But even if he doesn't,
That's still a major geopolitical victory for Putin.
For the last three and a half years, he's been a pariah.
He's been isolated on the world stage.
And now, all of a sudden, he gets to get what Russia always desired, a meeting on equal terms with the United States, where Putin can really posture as a global statesman who is deciding the fate of the world together with his equal, President Trump.
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