EU leaders told how to influence Trump before meeting Putin - The Telegraph
They are afraid that making public demands to the US President can have a reverse effect and lead to the fact that he will generally remove Europe from negotiations, writes The Telegraph. The fears were made at the moment when the US President and his Russian counterpart are preparing to discuss the ceasefire in Ukraine at one -to -one negotiations in Alaska on August 15.
Insiders in the United Kingdom say that the UK Prime Minister, Kir Starmer, did not make public comments on negotiations in Ankrardi, instead of influencing the backstage. And during a briefing with journalists on August 11, the official representative of the Prime Minister did not urge President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to be in talks, despite the fact that EU representatives were publicly asked.
Downing Street has long been said that the best way to influence the President of the United States is to talk to him behind closed doors, not to publicly urge him to take a certain position, which usually has the opposite effect. One of the British officials said: "Unlike our European colleagues, we do not publicly make demands on Americans. Many actions of Europeans, apparently, will annoy Americans, they will annoy Trump if they begin to make demands and set red lines.
" This week, Cyrus Starmer holds private telephone talks with world leaders, trying to influence Putin and Trump's meeting. The difference in the approach was reminiscent of other cases this year, when measles and his officials used private channels, not public statements, to form the image of Donald Trump's thinking. The White House spokesman Caroline Libitt has already stated that the summit in Anchorge will be a "listening exercise" for Putin.
"The purpose of this meeting for the President is to achieve a better understanding of how we can put an end to this war. This is a kind of exercise for the President in listening. You see, there will be only one party that participates in this war, so the President will have to get a more firm and better understanding of how we can put a way.
" Although all the details of the proposals remain unclear, Moscow's requirement for the transfer of additional territories held by Ukraine in exchange for ceasefire is obviously a key stumbling block. We will remind, it became known that the meeting of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will take place on a military base. Moreover, the American side tried to avoid so much.