The day has been hectic on the US-Russian negotiations front, leaving the peace-loving people in this world much more optimistic than yesterday.
Now that the second Donald J. Trump administration in place and beginning work at a breakneck speed on so many fronts, the prospects for a consolidation of world peace and an end to the war in Ukraine are the best they ever were.
Right now, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are exchanging statements in the press in a kind of diplomatic dance to advance the momentum for a first telephone talk, and eventually an in-person talk.
And now, each side has made a public statement acknowledging a fact that is important to the other side.
Trump was the first: on June 21, 2024, Trump said that Biden ‘provoked Russia’s attack’ on Ukraine by attempting to Kiev into NATO.
Asia Times reported:
“’Biden was saying all the wrong things’, Trump told venture capitalist David Sacks. ‘And one of the worst things he was saying was, no, Ukraine will go into NATO’. The Republican presidential candidate added, ‘When I listened to him speak, I said, this guy’s going to start a war. As you know, for years there was never even talk of Russia going into Ukraine. That would have never happened. Russia was never going to attack Ukraine’.”
Also, on January 7th, at Mar-a-Lago, the then President-elect doubled down, as Reuters reported:
“’A big part of the problem is, Russia – for many, many years, long before Putin – said, ‘You could never have NATO involved with Ukraine’. Now, they’ve said that. That’s been, like, written in stone’, Trump said.
‘And somewhere along the line Biden said, ‘No. They should be able to join NATO.’ Well, then Russia has somebody [NATO nation] right on their doorstep, and I could understand their feelings about that’.”
So, it was time for Putin to reciprocate, which he did in double fashion in an interview with Russian state television: by agreeing that Trump had his electoral victory stolen in 2020, and also that, were he in charge, the war would have never started.
Putin praised Trump as a ‘clever and pragmatic man’ focused on U.S. interests and said Moscow is ready for talks with the U.S. on a broad range of issues.
Associated Press reported:
“’We always had a business-like, pragmatic but also trusting relationship with the current U.S. president’, Putin said. ‘I couldn’t disagree with him that if he had been president, if they hadn’t stolen victory from him in 2020, the crisis that emerged in Ukraine in 2022 could have been avoided.’
Putin’s statement was his bluntest endorsement yet of Trump’s refusal to accept his defeat in the 2020 election.
Trump also has said repeatedly he wouldn’t have allowed the conflict to start if he had been in office.”
Watch: Putin’s interview with Russian TV.
Russian president Vladimir Putin says the 2020 US presidential election was “stolen” from Donald Trump, and that had he won, the Ukraine conflict might have been avoided. pic.twitter.com/2DYU7IaPqP
— Leah Rain
(@LeahRain77) January 24, 2025
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