The 47th US president wants to end the conflict quickly but not with Ukraine’s complete defeat, Dmitry Suslov told RT
US President Donald Trump will try to make good on his promise to quickly end the conflict in Ukraine, but not at the cost of Kiev’s complete capitulation to Moscow, Dmitry Suslov, a member of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, has told RT.
Trump, who was sworn in on Monday, repeatedly pledged to resolve the Ukraine conflict through diplomacy, but provided little specifics, apart from wanting to arrange negotiations between Moscow and Kiev.
Suslov, deputy director for world economy and international politics at the Moscow-based Higher School of Economics, said that “the support for Ukraine has stopped being a priority for the US.”
“Trump’s interest is not to back Ukraine as an anti-Russian proxy, but to end the conflict as soon as possible, in order to free up resources for the fight against China,”…
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