It is “more difficult” than he thought, but Donald Trump has no intention of renouncing the attempt to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible. Indeed, after the summit with Vladimir Putin and the one with Voldymyr Zelensky accompanied by European leaders, the American president puts the accelerator by erasing his August holidays and calling his closest ally in the old continent, Viktor Orban, to convince him to give the green light to the entrance of Kiev in the European Union. A haste that, however, clashes with the Zar’s strategy, who said he has been available for a face with the Ukrainian leader but in fact he seems to want to take time.
«I am optimistic, I have to be. But I thought it would be easier, “admitted The Donald in an interview with his friend and conservative writer Mark Levin at the end of five days of fire. The Tycoon has canceled its rest period in the Golf Club of Bedminster, New Jersey, because – explained the spokesman for the White House Karoline Leavitt – “has a mission and wants to beat the iron until it is hot”. However, it seems unlikely that the Puti-Zelensky meeting can take place within this week.
According to the Wall Street Journal, there will be “no” easily or quickly “for several reasons. First of all, to negotiate directly with Zelensky, it would be in contrast with the narrative he built to justify the invasion of Ukraine: therefore treating with him would create an internal problem. The leader of the Kremlin attacked the Ukrainian president several times, even recently, calling him a “puppet of the West” and insisted on the fact that several problems must be solved before a meeting. On the other hand, if he refused he would risk irritating Trump who has already threatened Russia of new sanctions.
But above all, a meeting with Zelensky could put an end to the ballet that Moscow has staged around Trump’s efforts: on the one hand Putin professed his desire for peace, on the other he asked for an escalation of the offensive who made important conquests in the east of the country gain to the Russian troops. A summit with the Ukrainian president could lead to an unwelcome moment of truth. And therefore the shrewd ex -KGB agent takes time. The Donald, you know, is not known to be a patient man, and therefore pulls straight on his way trying to give a turning point to the negotiations. “Instinctively,” he placed Mike Levin who asked him for the behind the scenes of his negotiations with Russia and Ukraine.
In the meantime, at the request of the European leaders gathered on Monday at the White House, Trump called Orban and asked him to remove the veto on the entrance of Kiev in the European Union. According to Bloomberg, who first reported the call, would have been on that occasion that the Hungarian premier would have offered to host the summit between Putin and Zelensky in Budapest. Less open, however, it seemed about the purpose of the call. “The adhesion of Ukraine to the European Union does not offer any guarantee of security”, wrote the Prime Minister Hungarian on Facebook who in these three years of war has tried to hinder the sending of European weapons in Kiev or the imposition of penalties against his friend Putin on more than one occasion. “Therefore, connecting the adhesion to the security guarantees is useless and dangerous,” said Oran after the phone call with the American president.