Russian President Vladimir Putin was at a joint press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland on July 16, 2018.
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Since its invasion of Ukraine three years ago, Russia has spent a lot of energy to demonize the United States and devastated its leadership, economy and culture, and what it calls Washington’s “hegemony” in the global world order.
International sanctions led by the United States prompted more sulfuric acid in Moscow, as Russian President Vladimir Putin and other senior officials slammed Almost continuous punitive restrictions on key sectors of the Russian economy and its elitesas the war continues.
But the arrival of President Donald Trump’s friendly administration and talks with the United States that have just escaped to end the conflict in Ukraine and the path to re-entering from the economic and geopolitical cold are driving Moscow to turn around in recent years It occupies a sharp and gentle position of confrontation.
As tensions between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emanated in a public attack on Wednesday, Trump called Zelenskyy a “dictator” and Putin was in this His silence was broken in the reconciliation between Russia and the United States after the week. The first sit-down conversation between officials since early 2022.
“I have a high opinion of (negotiation), and that’s a result,” Putin said. “He added that the meeting was “very friendly”.
“Overall, as I know, it is (the mood) very friendly. On the American side, there are completely different people who are willing to accept the negotiation process without any bias and have no bias towards what they have done in the past,” he said. NBC News Translator said in a comment.
Putin also praised Trump for showing “restraint” in what he called “hysteria”, and they were angry at Ukraine’s future negotiations.
Emotional music changes
In Russia – Moscow’s emotional music seems to change rapidly after the U.S. talks in Riyadh on Tuesday, despite Christianity’s absence from discussions, ostensibly to lay the foundation for the upcoming peace talks in Ukraine.
Russian state media responded positively to negotiations And the trend in Russia-US relations, too, Moscow’s senior officials Putin’s faithful inner circle.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that the focus of the negotiations was more focused on the “revival” of U.S.-Russia relations than Ukraine, calling the sentiment now “business.”
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were at a joint press conference in Helsinki, Finland on July 16, 2018.
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Foreign Secretary Sergey Lavrov responded to the sentiment, commenting on the “very constructive” talks that took place, noting that on Wednesday, the countries “started to shake off our relationships with the Biden administration. the edge of the abyss”.
“For now, it is necessary to clean up the legacy of the Biden administration, and it all destroys everything … the foundation of a long-term partnership between our countries,” Lavrov said, and the United States, Russian state news agency Tass reported.
CNBC has asked the Kremlin to comment further on changes in Washington’s position and is awaiting a response.
There is no doubt that Joe Biden’s departure from the White House and Trump’s return prompted Moscow to soften his remarks about the United States, warming relations with the United States during his first term from 2017 to 2021 .
Russian President Vladimir Putin even showed his support for the tariffs announced in Trump weeks before his tenure, noting Facing Trump’s trade threat, American and European allies will “stand at the feet of their masters”.
Russia will also benefit greatly from the final war, which puts its economy in a war position, Moscow has greatly increased the production of its military hardware, transferred workers to other key industries and production, making for the ongoing inflationary pressures Contribution Russian citizens are keenly aware of the rising prices of basic commodities and food.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with workers during an airplane visit in the eastern and western Siberian city of Ulan-ude on March 14, 2023.
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Economic Benefits
Moscow often underestimates the impact of Western sanctions on its major industries, especially the oil and gas sector, and anything hit by export revenues, but supports it by trade with other countries such as China and India, such as China and India. Ability to mitigate sanctions.
Economists say that, as part of the peace agreement, restrictions on restrictions and opportunities to reopen to Western markets can be mitigated.
“The decision of the U.S. and Russia to end the Ukrainian war marks a potential major turning point after three years of conflict,” Liam Peach, senior emerging market economist at capital economics, said in a report Tuesday.
“The negotiations will take time and the impact of the macroeconomic will depend on the characteristics of any agreement (but) we believe that a peace agreement may lead to higher gas flows in Russia and lower energy prices, but any promotion that promotes the European economy – Russia and Europe outside Ukraine – may be restricted.”
“A peace agreement with a broad interest to all parties will have a macroeconomic benefit: it can be based on moderate pickup and drop-offs Some In his comments in his email, he pointed out that Russian pipeline gas flows to Europe (and) the relaxation of Western sanctions on Russia, “although perhaps only in certain regions, such as Russia’s opportunity to enter the U.S. financial system.
David Roche, strategist at Quantum Strategy, commented that authoritarian leaders such as Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are the U.S. resentment to new discoveries from old allies and warming up to Moscow. Roche and other strategists are also cynical, and now that Russia is already deeply ingrained, Russia will tend to abandon its war-oriented economy.
Roche said in an email comment: “The winners are Putin and Eleven.
“The huge opportunity for the U.S. to retreat to magazine segregation for ‘dictators’ (including Russia and China) to replace the U.S. in terms of aid, investment and political painting,” Roche said in an email comment on Wednesday. .
“Putin will use a ceasefire to rebuild Russia’s armed forces. Once the battle prevents the terrible losses of people and machines from Russia, it will become a daily increase in the armed forces. The Russian war machine produces the entire equipment of the German armed forces every 6 months. ..Ironically, there are earthquake cracks on the Russian war machine.
Ukrainian smoke
Ukraine and its European allies were swallowed up by the United States, and Russia re-entered its roots in diplomatic ties and negotiated without input.
Zelenskyy has expressed his shock at Kyiv’s talks, but his frustrations have emerged completely on Wednesday when he said Trump was “disinformed” by Russia The impact of
That was when Trump fired back, saying that Zelenskyy was a “autocrat with no elections”, though Opinion polls released Wednesday The Kiev Institute of International Sociology shows that 57% of Ukrainians trust their president.
Since Zelenskyy’s 2019 general election, Ukraine has not held elections, saying it is unrealistic to vote during the war and in martial law.
