Trump's two -week deadline for Russia ends; Unresolved conflicts remain
Trump's two -week deadline for Russia ends; Unresolved conflicts remain
"I start thinking, maybe he doesn't care," said Trump, when an interviewer asked if Putin was thinking that thousands of his soldiers die in Ukraine every week.
challenges in international negotiations
This honest insight, which was recorded in a Podcast of the New York Post this week, illustrates the difficulties that Trump continues to confront when it comes to making complex international agreements, including topics that he previously described as easy to solve.
uncertainty about nuclear agreements with Iran
At the moment, Trump also seems to be less confident of reaching a nuclear agreement with Iran, although he had stated a few days ago that he believed in progress in the negotiations. The talks to end the war in the Gaza Strip have stalled, and Trump's resentment about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deepens.
results from trade talks
Although Trump reported a success in the negotiations with China this week to withdraw some of the one -sided measures that both sides had taken in the middle of a tightening trade war remains unclear how long this new framework remains. A similar agreement signed in Switzerland last month failed quickly.
relationships with North Korea
So far, there is only one trade agreement that emerged from the 90-day negotiation period that Trump determined with US partners in spring after exposing his mutual tariffs. The deadline expires in early July.Problems with correspondence to Kim Jong Un
Even Trump's approaches to his former letter partner Kim Jong un seem to have run into nothing. Attempts to send a letter from Trump to the North Korean dictator were rejected by diplomats at the United Nations headquarters in New York, which destroyed immediate hopes for a revival of friendship between Trump and the ruler.
hopes for a peace closure
"The president remains open to correspondence with Kim Jong Un. He wants to see the progress that was achieved at the (2018) summit in Singapore," said press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday when she was asked for the report.
The administration has not given up, however, to tackle difficult, still unsolved topics. Although Trump indicated that it may be entirely out of the Russia Ukraine conflict, he has not completely stopped his efforts. He is now entering an intensive phase of summit meetings, which will probably be focused on the war, including a meeting of the G7 in Canada next week and a NATO summit in the Netherlands later this month.
upcoming negotiations and trade talks
his team, led by a special representative Steve Witkoff, is planning another round of Iran talks in the coming days, even if there is increasing resistance to an agreement between some Iran-Hawks and Israeli officials.
and the trade talks continue to run at full speed, while the deadline is getting closer on July 9th. "You will see that agreements will come about week after week," commercial minister Howard Lutnick told CNBC on Wednesday. "We have many in the pipeline. We just want to make sure they are the best possible agreements. We don't want to hurry up."
Trump's frustrations in international negotiations
Nevertheless, Trump's own comments this week offered a clear insight into his frustrated - and frustrating - attempts to make international agreements.
"We are making progress and suddenly something is bombarded that should not be bombarded, and that is the end of progress," he said about the Ukraine conflict and described the situation as two steps forward, one step back, while the efforts are going on by a ceasefire.
Current decisions in Ukraine policy
It has been two weeks since Trump promised to have an answer to Putin's willingness to end the war within two weeks, a time frame that he repeatedly used this spring when he was asked about his Ukraine policy. Since then, Trump has not made a decision about new sanctions against Moscow, although his Republican allies in the Capitol have pushed to tougher measures and Europe imposed new restrictions on the oil and gas sector in Russia.
military aid for Ukraine
"I will use them if necessary," he said on Friday in front of reporters in Air Force One. He explained that the senators, many of whom have supported a law to increase sanctions against Russia, were given the decision. However, he himself did not speak to them.
forecasts for Iran-Diplomacy
In the meantime, Trump has not taken any steps to increase military help for Ukraine, which is among some of the greatest drone attacks in the war this week. He is expected to hear this by the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj at the upcoming summit meetings in which Selenskyj should take part.
Trump's Defense Minister Pete Hegseth informed the legislators on Tuesday that there would be “a reduction in this budget” by military aid for Kiev. "This administration has a very different view of this conflict. We believe that a negotiated peaceful solution is in the best interest of both parties and our national interests, especially in view of the many competing interests worldwide," said Hegseth in a hearing before the congress.
outstanding discussions with Iran
Since he set the two -week period two weeks ago, Trump once spoke to Putin. But in his own representation, the conversation was not enough to bring about an immediate peace. "We had a good conversation. But nothing has come out so far," he said.
stagnation in the Iran question
also from his efforts to restrict Iran's nuclear ambitions. "I am getting less and less confident. They seem to be delayed, and this is a shame, but I am now less confident than a few months ago," said Trump in the podcast interview. "Something happened with them, but I am much less confident that an agreement will come about," he continued, noticing that his "instincts" tell him that an agreement is in the distance.
difficulties in the conversations
The point of contention is to persevere to enrich uranium, which Trump has requested as a condition for the cancellation of some sanctions in the context of an agreement. This is largely the same problem that the nuclear discussions with Iran extended under Barack Obama, whose ultimate deal allowed a low enrichment. Trump retired from the agreement during his first term and is now faced with many of the same difficulties.
about the upcoming deadlines
A new round of talks with Iran will take place in the next few days, US officials have reported. The United States is waiting for an official answer to Tehrans for its last proposal. A two-month period to achieve an agreement that Trump stated in a letter to the Iranian leaders in April is departing this week. In the podcast interview, Trump said Iran would regret not concluding an agreement because the alternative war was.
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"It would be nicer to do this without war, without people who die," he said. "Yes, it would be so much nicer to do it. But I don't think I see the same level of enthusiasm for an agreement with you."