What ausdealen Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin? Even before the Helsinki summit is clear: The US President, could the entire Western Alliance on the Altar of his vanity victims, says Christian Trippe.
Donald Trump wants to talk with Vladimir Putin. Just the two of them, each with an interpreter. Political consultants and the minute-taker should not be present at the interview this time. The White house wants it that way – and it violates a basic rule of such summit, which is more than mere custom. Trump is fueling the mistrust, he fueled deep-seated Fears among those who see Russia threatened, and the doubt of the assistance, a guarantee of the Western Alliance.
Trump and Putin are very similar. Both see themselves as “strong men” in a Chaos-dominated world, both realize that they have conducted a community first and foremost as States. Putin presents himself for some time as the leader of all those political forces which decided to turn illiberal. Trump, in turn, in the role of the destroyer of those liberal institutions, of the gifts in the world according to the epoch breaks between 1945 and 1990, an order.
Mutual Admiration
Both have announced several times that they admire each other, all the opposing interests. For the Meeting of Helsinki does not Bode well, because the expectation horizons are too different. The Americans looks like so many times before, the media effect, a Meeting on the big stage, Pat on the back with Aplomb; he will astonish the world. His political goals – for example, he has hidden what keeps Trump.
Christian F. Trippe, DW expert for international security
The Russian, however, has an extensive Agenda: Putin wants a free Hand in the Syrian civil war. He wants a free Hand in the Ukraine sees Putin as a Russian zone of influence, and he only limited sovereignty. And finally, he asks that the West recognize the coup-like occupation of the Ukrainian Peninsula of Crimea four years ago was not an annexation, but a “reunification” with Russia. The EU and the US have imposed because of the Crimea sanctions against Moscow, and Putin wants them to be gone.
Trump: Putin’s Preferred Candidate
Who starts to question how Putin can enforce these goals with his American Opposite, looks in a political and moral abyss. While Trump’s travels through Europe, has raised a US special investigator brought charges against twelve Russian agents. They should have intervened in the US presidential election two years ago. Russia has long been suspected of Trumps campaign help: hacker attacks, information theft, through Social Media campaigns to influence U.S. voters.
No question, Donald Trump the desire was the candidate of the Kremlin leadership. But he is therefore also equal to “your” President? The answer depends solely on whether the Kremlin has something against Trump in the Hand, whether there are so-called “Kompromat” – compromising Material, which is good for political blackmail. Speculation again and again, time Trumps women’s stories in the Moscow times about trump’s business contacts in New York.
These stories from Trumps Exemplification lurid, but it will remain in speculation. You are not allowed to distract from the real policy that makes “the real” Donald Trump. Who snubbed the NATO allies, like Trump does, the concerned business of all enemies of the West. A US President, threatening with the withdrawal from NATO, is a gift for every Russian Präsdienten. Whether Putin will thank Trump for that in Helsinki? We will not know. Trump knows only too well why he wants no record of his conversation with Putin.
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