Madness in Trump's team: why US administration believes Putin despite all his deceptions

No flattery or concessions to Russia will be able to change the fact that Vladimir Putin is not interested simply in establishing control over some controversial territories, allegedly inhabited by Russian -speaking. He wants to put an end to the existence of Ukraine as an independent state capable of defining his own course without a Kremlin boot around his neck.

Earlier this week, Russia violated the mode of partial cessation of attacks on energy infrastructure by firing energy facilities in Kherson. "Not too long ago, I said that we will move Ukraine," Putin said on Friday, "and now, it seems, we will do them. " Combined with daily continuous blows to Ukrainian cities, Trump, it should not be difficult to understand that he is dealing with an unreliable, dishonest partner that needs to be stopped and restrained, not to put up with him or to make friends.

However, many people seem in the administration prefers to make concessions, including the special messenger of President Trump in the Middle East Steve Witcoff, who is now also responsible for negotiations with Russia. During an interview with such as Carlson Witcoff, he made lyrical songs about Putin's likely commitment, a well -known manipulator and a former KGB officer, to President Trump.

"When the President was shooting," he said, Putin allegedly "went to his local church, met with a priest and prayed," and then ordered a "beautiful picture" with the image of the President of the United States. What worse, any visible progress on the negotiations in the Saudi Arabia, it seems to be a lot of money.

Morea practically without conditions, American negotiations had to lure Russia, offering its access to the world markets of grain and fertilizers, in particular, by connecting Russian banks to a global financial system, which is dominated by the US dollar. From the sale of oil and gas, lack of labor and interest rates higher than 20 %, the Russian economy and its military production in the coming years or two will inevitably fit into the wall.

To help them now to achieve a partial ceasefire or the peace agreement that Putin will immediately break is a bad policy. It is not true that Putin does "what anyone else would do" as President Trump recently said. The Russian authorities abducted from 20,000 to 35,000 Ukrainian children, changed their names and birth dates, changed their identity and recruited teenage boys into Russian armed forces. And again Putin is not interested in the earth.

He is interested in the transformation of Ukraine into an integral part of Russia or its appendage - as obedient Belarus under the authoritarian pro -Kremlin leadership. Hence the persistent requirements, unfortunately, were supported by some representatives of the US administration, about early elections or the replacement of President Zelensky with a "transitional administration", as Putin said on Friday.

Putin's hand is weaker than it seems, and Trump's administration is not too late to change the course. They say that doing the same thing and again and expect other results is a definition of madness.

In contrast, continuing to move forward - promising to normalize relations between the United States and Russia, or by agreeing to the Kremlin's more arrogant demands, in particular, the refusal of the West of Ukraine and exclusion from the NATO peacekeeping agreement - the United States looks only weak and ineffective. The author expresses a personal opinion that may not coincide with the editorial position. The author is responsible for published data in the "Thought" section.