«The US President is trying to flatter Mr. Putin»
The press reporter had a discussion with former US Ambassador to Russia, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, former US Ambassador to the United Nations, India, Israel and Jordan, Mr. Thomas Pickering about Russia-US relations ahead of the meeting of the two countries' leaders.
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TomasPickering:The relationship between the two countries is very complicated at present, and the meeting, which is likely to take place, is a good opportunity to show whether we can change the increasingly deteriorating relationship between the United States and Russia.
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TomasPickering:Mr. Trump is a difficult person to predict, but I suspect that the North Korean issue is still on the agenda. The issue of nuclear weapons and the procedures necessary to reduce nuclear weapons for the purpose of strengthening the stability of nuclear restraint is important to everyone, it must be on the agenda of the two leaders. Neither of them wants an accidental nuclear explosion due to a misunderstanding between the two sides. And starting the process (which they are doing now) would be a really important step forward.
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TomasPickering:I think that in some sense, if Mr. Trump feels that he can flatter a difficult negotiating partner, he will do it. And I think that is the case we are talking about. I think that Mr. Trump has completely misjudged the situation. At the G7 summit, his statement upset people, and this did not bring a positive reaction from the American public.
In addition, Russia reacted very negatively. This shows that one of Mr. Trump's biggest problems is his lack of foreign policy knowledge, his inability to learn the lessons of history and his seeming complete ignorance of history, and as a result, he sometimes falls into traps or hits rocks without even knowing it.
