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Re: President Trump 2.0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...tration-putin/
Quote:
Trump’s blast toward Russia is a ‘negotiating tactic,’ White House says
President Donald Trump’s furious rhetoric toward Russia is “a negotiating tactic” intended to pressure the Kremlin, a senior White House official said Wednesday, a day after the president stunned global policymakers and delighted Ukrainian leaders by embracing Kyiv’s ambitions for a decisive defeat of Russia.
The president’s apparent flip in favor of Ukraine’s reconquering its full territory is a marker of Trump’s frustration toward Russian President Vladimir Putin, the senior White House official said, a month after a red-carpet summit in Alaska between the two leaders yielded few concrete results.
But Trump was not signaling a major shift in U.S. policy toward Kyiv during a day at the U.N. General Assembly in which he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the official said, speaking like others on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about sensitive diplomatic discussions.
The U.S. president has long suggested that Ukraine will need to give up territory to end the war, so his declaration on Tuesday that Kyiv can “WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form” with the right support was a notable break.
But hours later, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the U.N. Security Council that the war would end at a negotiating table, not the battlefield — a conventional restatement of existing U.S. policy that suggested that Trump’s new approach was not being translated into practical action.
The senior White House official said that everything the president does is “from the lens of ‘How can we make a deal?’”
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Rule 1 of Negotiation Tactics - don’t tell the other side your Negotiation Tactics…
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