В ожидании звонка

[yakov_a_jerkov]

Я два дня назад приводил короткий отрывок из интервью Трампа Fox News — "Киев за пять дней". Интересно, что, как указал stumari, Трамп, на самом деле, сказал "пять часов", а не "пять дней". Я и текст твита прочитал, и видео посмотрел, но "пять часов" у меня в голове не зарегистрировалось. Хотя, казалось бы, это ж Трамп, он мог и "пять минут" сказать.

С тех пор стало известно, что в понедельник Трамп поговорит с Путиным по телефону. Это будет ключевой, эпохальный разговор. Трамп с Путиным решат судьбу мира. Или ничего не решат.

Так вот в ожидании этого звонка, мне кажется стоит вернуться к тому недавнему интервью Трампа. Видео интересующей нас части ниже, но я также приведу текстовое изложение корреспондента FT, Миллера. По-моему, в текстовом виде легче оценить, так сказать, уровень трамповского понимания ситуации.

Baier: "You said [to Putin], get to the table... stop bombing. He hasn't stopped bombing..."

Trump: "Well he is at the table. And he wanted this meeting. And I always felt there can't be a meeting without me because I don’t think a deal is gonna get through. There’s a lot of hatred on both sides. I have a very good relationship with Putin, I think we’ll make a deal. We have to get together and I think we’ll probably schedule it up, because I’m tired of having other people go and meet and everything else. With that I think Steve Witkoff is doing such an incredible job, but it’s a very tough job and it’s a job that because of position that I think I’m the only one that’s gonna be able to do that one and I think we’ll do it fast too. I think Putin is tired of this whole thing and he’s not - he’s not looking good. And he wants to look good. Don’t forget this was supposed to end in one week and if he didn’t get stuck in the mud with his army tanks all over the place, they would’ve been in Kyiv -- Kiev -- in about five hours. And who gave the javelins? Do you remember who gave the javelins? Was it Barack Hussein Obama who gave the javelins? No it was Donald Trump who gave the javelins."

Trump on Zelensky: "I had a real rough session with Zelenskyy because I didn't like what he said. And he was not making it easy. And I always said he doesn't have the cards, and he doesn't have the cards. And I'm being honest, he doesn't have the cards."

"You're dealing with a massive army and you're dealing with someone that's brave and had great equipment." [Unclear if he's talking about Putin or Zelensky, I think the latter?]

Baier asks Trump about hitting Russia and its banking sector with sanctions...

Trump goes on a tangent about making "money in a few days" on his Middle East trip.

Trump then repeats a previous remark about Zelenskyy's salesmanship: "I think he's the greatest salesman in the world, far better than me. Zelenskyy, he comes to Washington, he walks out with $100 million every time he walks away. ... We send checks, we dont' send equipment, we send cash." (This is false.)

Baier: Are you going to put the screws to Putin?

Trump: "Wait..." and he goes on to talk about Biden.

Trump on Ukraine: "I will tell you, Putin – it was the apple of his eye. ... But we inherited a mess. I think it's going to get solved. But Putin... wanted the whole thing."

Baier asks Trump what the US and Ukraine gain from supporting Kyiv, and Trump implies that it's already enough: "Somebody said, well what do we get out of it, in terms of let's say, Ukraine? You know what they get? A large part of the country."

Baier: "At some point there needs to be leverage on Putin..."

Trump: "Nobody uses leverage better than me, look what I did to Iran..."

Baier: "So it's changing?"

Trump: "It's not changing..."

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Comments

[hard_squeeze]

В общем, в понедельник вечером ждём труса от Трампа, сплошь капслоком, что Зеленский должен немедленно вывести войска из исконно российских территорий и что Путин пошёл на большие уступки и согласился оставить Украине другие исконно русские территории: Харьковскую, Черниговскую, Сумскую и Полтавскую области. Плюс мать городов русских, Киев. И что это превосходная сделка, что если бы не Байден, такую сделку можно было бы заключить давно и война не началась бы.

[imfromjasenevo]

в том, что война продолжается, виноват Байден и украинская грязь