Trump's ultimatum for Russia ends - unresolved conflicts remain

Trump's ultimatum for Russia ends - unresolved conflicts remain

Two weeks after President Donald Trump a 14- day frame to evaluate the willingness of his Russian counterpart to end the conflict in Ukraine, Trump explains that Wladimir Putin has nothing takes care of the human costs of his war.

Trump's insights into the Ukraine conflict

"I start thinking, maybe he doesn't care," said Trump, when he was asked in an interview whether Putin regretted that thousands of his soldiers die in Ukraine every week.

This open statement, which was recorded in a New York Post podcast, illustrated the challenges that Trump continues to face while trying to convey complex international agreements, including topics that he once believed.

uncertainty about Iran and the Gaza conflict

Trump is also less confident about a nuclear deal with Iran, although he had declared a few days ago that the talks would go in the right direction. Negotiations to end the war in the Gaza Strip have stalled, and Trump's unrest over the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is increasing.

progress in trade talks with China

While Trump successfully communicated this week about an agreement with China to roll back some of the strict measures that had taken both sides in the course of the escalating trade war, it remains uncertain how long the new framework will last. A deal with similar conditions in Switzerland last month broke quickly.

political conversations and upcoming decades

himself Trump's approaches to his former pen lover Kim Jong Un seems to have failed. Attempts to deliver a letter from Trump to the North Korean dictator have been rejected by diplomats that work in the Nations' headquarters in New York, which made immediate hopes for a revival of the former friendship between Trump and the ruler.

Trump's persistent challenges and future prospects

"The president is still open to correspondence with Kim Jong Un. He wants to see the progress that was made at the 2018 summit in Singapore," said press spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday when she was asked for the report.

Despite everything, there is no task of the unresolved difficult topics in the government. Although Trump indicated that he could possibly withdraw completely from the Russia Ukraine conflict, he has not completely given up his efforts. It faces an intensive phase of summit meetings that will probably be all about war, including a G7 meeting in Canada in the next week and a NATO summit in the Netherlands later this month.

planned conversations with Iran and trade talks

his team, led by special sentences Steve Witkoff, is planning another round of talks with Iran in the coming days, despite the growing opposition to a deal of some Iran-Hawks and Israeli officials. The trading talks continue to run intensively, as the deadline is getting closer on July 9th.

"You will see deal for deals that will come next week. And the week after the week after," Commercial Minister Howard Lutnick told CNBC on Wednesday. "We have many of them in the pipeline. We just want to make sure it will be the best agreement we can do. We don't want to rush." ​​

conclusion: uncertain negotiations and the way forward

Nevertheless, Trump's comments offer an urgent insight into his frustrated - and frustrating - attempts to negotiate worldwide. "We are making progress and then suddenly something is bombed that should not be bombed, and that is the end of progress," he said about the Ukraine conflict and described a reality in which progress often only succeeds in small steps.

Although he announced the will two weeks ago, to find a response to Putin's willingness to terminate the war in a very short time, Trump has not yet made a decision on new sanctions against Moscow. This also happens, while his Republican allies in Capitol Hill are pushing tougher measures and Europe imposed new restrictions on Russia's oil and gas sector.

"I will use it if necessary," he said last Friday reporters on board Air Force One. The senators, many of whom have signed a draft law to increase sanctions against Russia, leave the decision to him. But according to Tim Trump, he didn't talk to you about it.

"I didn't talk to you about it," he said. "You have a law. It will be up to me, it's my option."

At the same time, Trump did not take any steps to increase military support for Ukraine, which this week suffered from some of the greatest drone attacks in the war. This is expected to be brought up by the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj at the upcoming summit meetings in which Selenskyj is supposed to take part.

Trump’s Defense Minister Pete Hegseth informed the legislators on Tuesday that there will be a "reduction" in the budget of military support for Kiev. "This administration has a completely different view of this conflict. We believe that a negotiated peaceful solution is both in the best interest of both parties and in the best interest of our country, especially taking into account the many competing interests worldwide," said Hegseth in a testimony before the congress.

Since he set the two -week period two weeks ago, Trump once said to Putin. But according to his own description, the conversation was not sufficient to bring about an immediate peace. "We had a good conversation," said Trump. "But nothing has become of it so far."

So far, there has been nothing of his efforts to dampen the nuclear ambitions of Iran. "I am getting less and less confident about it. They seem to take their time, and I think that's a shame, but I am now less confident than a few months ago," said Trump in the podcast interview. "Something happened with them, but my instincts tell me that a deal is far away," he added.

At its core, it is about Iran's insistence to continue to enrich uranium, which Trump demanded as a condition for the cancellation of some sanctions as part of a deal. This is basically the same topic that the nuclear conversations with Iran extended under Barack Obama, whose ultimate deal allowed a little enrichment. Trump withdrew from the contract during his first term, but now he is in the same negotiations.

A new round of talks with Iran will take place in the coming days, US officials have announced. The United States is waiting for an official answer to Tehrans for the latest proposal. A two -month period to achieve a deal that Trump put in a letter to the Iranian managers in April is departing this week. In the podcast interview, Trump said Iran would regret not doing a deal because the alternative war was. "It would be nicer to do it without warfare without people dying," he said. "Yes, it would be so much nicer. But I don't see the same degree of enthusiasm on your side for a deal."

This story has been updated with new reports.