Rosenberg: Trump-Putin call seen as victory in Russia

Judging by immoderate of the headlines contiguous successful Russia, Moscow believes that the latest telephone speech betwixt Presidents Putin and Trump went good - surely for the Kremlin.

"Putin and Trump agreed to enactment unneurotic connected Ukraine resolution," concludes Izvestia.

"Record-long Putin-Trump call," declares Komsomolskaya Pravda. The paper's website adds: "As things basal Russia has scored a diplomatic triumph here."

Why are immoderate successful Russia claiming "victory" aft this two-hour telephone call?

Probably because, by the extremity of it, Vladimir Putin hadn't been pressured into making immoderate large concessions to Ukraine oregon to the United States. On the contrary, helium had - successful effect - rejected President Trump's thought of an contiguous unconditional 30-day ceasefire.

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Instead of pressuring Moscow with the menace of adjacent tougher sanctions and penalties, to get Russia to motion up to its plan, the US medication reacted by praising the Kremlin leader.

"We had a large call," Donald Trump told Fox News.

"I would commend President Putin for each helium did contiguous connected that telephone to determination his state adjacent to a last bid deal," said Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff.

Not lone did Moscow not hold to an unconditional ceasefire, President Putin acceptable his ain pre-conditions for peace.

They see an extremity to Western subject assistance to Kyiv and quality sharing with the Ukrainians, arsenic good arsenic a halt to mobilisation successful Ukraine. Such conditions are wide viewed arsenic a mode of securing Ukraine's capitulation.

It's hard to spot Kyiv agreeing to immoderate of that.

But could the Trump medication yet beryllium persuaded, by Moscow, that specified conditions are acceptable? And if so, would Washington unit Ukraine to judge them?

Much whitethorn beryllium connected whether the Kremlin tin person President Trump helium has much to summation from processing bully ties with Moscow than by defending Ukraine's corner.

As if to property location the point, successful their conversations with the Americans, Russian officials are already dangling assorted economical and fiscal carrots and talking astir however mutually beneficial the Russia-US narration could beryllium if the 2 countries tin re-energise bilateral relations and get to enactment connected associated projects.

Vladimir Putin precocious raised the imaginable of US-Russian practice successful aluminium accumulation and uncommon minerals mining.

The connection appears to beryllium getting through.

"We'd similar to person much commercialized with Russia," said Donald Trump connected Tuesday successful his interrogation with Fox News.

"They person immoderate precise invaluable things for us, including uncommon earth. They person a large chunk of existent estate, the biggest successful the world. They person things that we could use."

Moscow whitethorn good beryllium hoping - perchance calculating - that Donald Trump volition prioritise getting a chunk of that "Russian existent estate" implicit securing an acceptable woody for Ukraine to extremity the war.

It's a constituent echoed contiguous by the pro-Kremlin Izvestia newspaper:

"Moscow's logic is to marque economical relations with America truthful profitable that severing them would beryllium excessively costly for the United States."

After Ukraine had agreed to an unconditional ceasefire a week ago, the US medication publically announced that "the shot is successful [Russia's] court".

Now that Vladimir Putin has rejected the woody and acceptable his ain conditions, the Kremlin person has deed it backmost into America's "court".

But Russia and America volition proceed their discussions - some connected Ukraine and connected US-Russian ties.

And it's these negotiations which are apt to power Donald Trump's adjacent move.