Trump has key leverage over Putin, not vice versa - Telegraph
US President Donald Trump is unlikely to propose a deal on the war in Ukraine that will not be implemented.
Military expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon writes about this in The Telegraph, Censor.NET reports.
According to him, Trump's headquarters is holding back some of his ideas about the US taking control of the Gaza Strip and moving the residents to Egypt and Jordan. However, such "crazy proposals" may not seem so crazy in Kyiv and cannot be ignored in Moscow.
Simply put, the expert writes, Putin must be scared. Emboldened by his ceasefire in Gaza, Trump is unlikely to propose a deal on Ukraine that will not be implemented. The only way it can be implemented is if Ukraine returns some, if not all, of its occupied territory.
Putin may have to trade thousands of square kilometers of land in Ukraine for the few hundred he lost in the Kursk region to "save face" and his future in the Kremlin.
"After Trump's presumptuous statements on Gaza, it is likely that Trump has key leverage over Putin, not the other way around. Trump knows that he has a much better chance of achieving an effective and lasting peace in Ukraine than in Gaza. Given the new president's desire to be recognized as a great leader and peacemaker of the 21st century, Putin probably has something to worry about," the article says.
Earlier, Donald Trump said that Israel should hand over the Gaza Strip to the United States, and the Palestinians should be resettled in "safer and more beautiful" places.
