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Trump and Putin made a call about peace in Ukraine
President Trump said he had a “long and very productive phone call” with President Vladimir Putin de Russia, which characterized how the beginning of a negotiation to end the war in Ukraine. Subsequently, Trump said he had spoken with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
“We each talk about the strengths of our respective nations, and the great benefit that one day we will have to work together,” Trump wrote on the social networks of his call with Putin. “But first, as we both agree, we want to stop the millions of deaths,” in fact, a few hundred hundreds of thousands, “taking place in the war.”
The call means the collapse of western efforts to isolate Putin diplomatically.
Trump did not say how Ukraine’s interests would influence negotiations. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegesh previously said at a NATO meeting in Brussels that a peace agreement that restored the borders of Ukraine to those of 2014, when Russia attached Crimea, was “unrealistic.” Russia now occupies about 20 percent of Ukraine. Trump, Heghseth added, does not support Ukraine membership in NATO as part of a peace plan.
Minerals Deal: The valuable mineral resources of Ukraine have become a prominent component in the maneuver on the future of the country after Trump promoted the idea of exchanging US help for Ukrainian minerals. The United States Secretary of the United States was in Kyiv to talk about a possible agreement.
Modi hopes to keep India out of Trump’s objective list
Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India is expected to try to relieve any potential friction between his country and the United States when he meets President Trump today in Washington. Modi has talked about a warm relationship with the president, but Trump can be a friend Voluble.
Two obvious problems could complicate the objectives of modi: trade and immigration. Modi “will try to show Trump that he is cooperating with his fixation in tariffs and illegal immigration,” said Mujib Mashal, our head of the Office of South Asia. “Trump has pointed out to India as one of the main tariff abusers who enjoy a commercial deficit with the United States, mentioning India in the same breath as China.”
The commercial surplus of India with the United States is growing, and Modi could offer lower duties on US goods such as Bourbon and nuts, which occur mainly in Republican states.
Deportations: India is also the largest source of illegal immigration to the United States after Latin America. The Modi government has made it clear that it will cooperate with Trump’s deportation effort, even when it caused a fuss in India last week.
Jordan and Egypt try the deviation in Gaza
Jordan and Egypt are moving with speed to try to deter Trump to force them to collect two million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. The two Arab nations see the proposal as an existential threat.
The strategy seems to be to placate Trump with the offers of working together to rebuild Gaza, bring peace to the region and expand humanitarian aid efforts. That could help them buy time, analysts say, perhaps enough for the idea to be completely shattered, or so that their strategic and security inconveniences become evident. And with Trump, adulation can be highly effective.
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