Vladimir Putin is “laughing his backside off” at Donald Trump after scoring “game, set and match” with his “blank cheque peace deal”, one expert believes. While Putin may have vowed to stop pummelling Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Trump failed to execute his plan to end the war after the lengthy phone call.
What Trump and Ukraine had wanted was a complete halt to the conflict for 30 days, but what they gave Putin was a “blank cheque” which will gift the warlord everything he wanted on a silver platter. Defence and security expert Anthony Glees explained how Putin will be giddy and howling after hoodwinking the self-appointed “best deal-maker in the world”.
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He tells The Mirror: “The 90 minute ‘conversation’ with Trump was game, set and match evil Putin. No wonder he was smirking on Russian TV yesterday evening. To mix metaphors poker-playing Putin is laughing his backside off at golfer Trump.”
Trump came into office with a mandate to dismantle America’s role as world policeman and end the country’s involvement on foreign soil. Instead, he’s meddled and sowed discord in Gaza and Ukraine, and made himself look like a “total failure” by being unable to capitalise on his wild schemes.
“What I would say is that the phone-call fiasco yesterday not only weakens Trump (already being made to look a total failure over Gaza) it also puts Starmer and the European Coalition of the Willing, that the UK is leading, on the spot,” Professor Glees explained.
And Trump may be completely unaware of the gravity of exactly what he’s giving away to the Kremlin. He seems willing to offer up everything Putin wants – Ukrainian sovereignty, its plans to join NATO, and even to stop US efforts to retrieve the Ukrainian children snatched from their families and taken into Russia which many amount to cultural genocide, Professor Glees explained.
And once the dust has settled, Putin will simply return to swipe the prize Trump has awarded him, and maybe a couple more countries for good measure. Professor Glees said: “That’s a blanket cheque for Putin not only to take the rump of Ukraine as soon as he hopes everyone will have forgotten about it but to begin to subvert and destabilise all the post-1997 NATO members that border his marauding state. Trump has restored Putin to the world stage, no longer the pariah he deserves to be but Trump’s equal.”
And like most of Trump’s “deals”, money appears to be at the root of it all. He rejoiced in Putin’s promise of “enormous economic deals with Russia in the future”. “Oh, how the Kremlin will have giggled at that one!,” Professor Glees said.
Trump’s ego is a glaring hole for Putin to exploit, one that makes him “vulnerable to his wiles”, so now all he has to do is play the waiting game because “time is on his side”, the professor concluded.
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