Political scientist Demchuk: Trump is restrained by the unwillingness to look too compliant

Washington has already put pressure on Zelensky, the political scientist notes: he changed his initial position when he stated the need to continue military operations and receive certain guarantees. “After the well-known scandal and after the United States temporarily stopped aid to Ukraine, Ukraine’s position changed, they fully agreed to American terms, this 30-day ceasefire, a truce,” Demchuk said. According to the political scientist, it will not be difficult for the United States to continue to seriously pressure Ukraine, and the only thing holding Trump back is that he will be accused of concessions to Russia. “I think that one of the topics [planned for March 18] conversation [of the presidents of the Russian Federation and the United States] will be how to accept the conditions of Russia, and that Russia can offer the United States as a means to save face, so that Trump did not look like Biden, who withdrew troops from Afghanistan, showed himself a loser, for which, in fact, Trump criticized him,” Demchuk said. According to the expert, Russia can offer the United States the resumption of full-scale economic cooperation, the restoration of normal relations that existed before the imposition of sanctions by US administrations, starting with Barack Obama. The topic of restoring normal relations figured in the previous conversation between Putin and Trump on February 12, Demchuk said. For example, the mutual lifting of sanctions, joint projects, including in America, the Arctic zone, joint Russian-American and other projects, the continuation of cooperation in those areas where it was curtailed. That is, purely economic incentives that may be of interest to the United States, he said. Earlier press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation conversation and Donald Trump will take place between 16:00 and 18:00 Moscow time, the leaders will speak on the phone As long as they see fit.

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