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Expert Mölling: “Putin tries to open a much larger barrel”
According to political scientist Christian Mölling, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin tries to increase the price of an armistice. Now it depends on two factors.
Russia’s response to the ceasefire offer of the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj is not only an attempt to make time to go into a much larger package in the negotiations. “
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday in a press conference that he was for an armistice. But there are “nuances”. The “basic causes” of the conflict with Ukraine would have to be combated. In addition, this should not receive any military support during the ceasefire.
The red line of Donald Trump
This is “the attempt to open a much larger barrel,” said Mölling in star- “The Location International”. US President Donald Trump had “set a red line behind which he no longer got back”. Putin is now trying to “increase the price of an armistice”. In this way, Russia will expect that in the meantime no American intelligence and educational information would be delivered to the Ukrainian side. This worsens the possibilities of Ukraine to clarify what happens to the Russian troops.
According to Mölling, Moscow does not go into confrontation with the United States, but try to push the conversations in a direction that Russia strategically helps.
According to Mölling, US President Trump and his role as a “dealmaker” can also weaken this.
Putin is the better dealmaker – to its advantage
Now a “new phase of the conversations”, which is shaped by two uncertainties: “How big is Trump’s will to peace? And what does Russia clever into the negotiations and on the other hand to generate a dilemma and to bridge a possible clash of Ukraine and the United States.”
Mölling, who leads the “Europe’s future” program at the Bertelsmann Foundation, sees Russia at the advantage: “You have to see that very clearly: If Russia can do one, it is the ability to bring people apart through diplomacy. They are just professionals.”
In the middle of this week, Selenskyj had under pressure from the US government after oneMeeting of Ukrainian-American among the Saudi port city of Djidda for a 30-day ceasefire.
Source: Stern
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