Is Russia unable to hold it back, or is the United States unable to hold it back? Anyway, the heads of state of the United States and Russia had a phone call, and they talked for two and a half hours. I have to say that Trump and Putin really talked, which was revealed from the first time Trump became president of the United States.
According to the line, The initiator of this call is Russia.Interestingly, the call took place on October 16th, local time, and the next day, On October 17, Trump is scheduled to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky in the White House.
Hence, Putin may want to let Trump know about Russia’s ideas as soon as possible before he asks the United States in Zhejiang, so as not to fall into passivity.
An important message was released after the call ended, Trump has confirmed that he will meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, but the time has not been determined.
It should be noted that the meeting venue of the two countries was well-known, and Hungary, although a member of the European Union, is different from other EU member states, and the relationship with Russia is very good, and will even vote against the vote in the EU to discuss Russian sanctions.
After hanging the phone, Trump said on social media: The call was “very fruitful” and “will see if we can end this unglorious war after meeting with Putin.”Meanwhile, Trump also announced that next week Secretary of State Rubio will lead the U.S. Senior Advisory Corps to hold talks with Russia.
The whole world was curious about the two big guys cooked two hours of phone calls, and what specifics they talked about, One estimate that will be mentioned is the provision of cruise missiles to Ukraine.
A few days ago, Trump suddenly said that he was considering providing Ukraine with the Tomahawk cruise missile that it had always hoped to obtain.
Russia is more tense about this, with Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov repeatedly stating that if the U.S. really gave the "Taxic" cruise missiles to Ukraine, it would escalate the Russian-Ukrainian war to a new round.
Putin knows that Zelensky and Trump will definitely ask for Tomahawk cruise missiles after meeting. Anyway, Europe will pay for Ukraine, which is equivalent to the United States selling arms to Ukraine. From the perspective of interests, the United States is not losing money. He is a businessman. Trump is willing to promote this military aid under normal circumstances.
In order to prevent the situation from developing in an uncontrollable direction, Calling the United States first to clarify its position and clarify Russia's bottom line will help Trump give up the idea of providing missiles to Ukraine.
In addition to weapons, there is another topic that should and will definitely be discussed. Russia's biggest problem at the moment comes from finance. After dozens of rounds of sanctions from Western countries, Russia's domestic economy has been seriously affected, which is directly reflected in the fact that fiscal expenditures cannot make ends meet.
Recently, the U.S. is also preparing to deal with Russia's most dependent oil buyers.The first Russian oil buyer affected was India, and the U.S. will double the tariff rate on Indian imports from the previous 25% to 50%, hoping to force India to give up buying Russian oil.
In addition, U.S. media that the U.S. Congress is pushing for the adoption of a new sanctions scheme against Russia. The main content is that if Russia refuses peace talks, the United States will impose a 500% secondary tariff on countries that purchase Russian oil.Such high tariffs are no different from cutting off trade exchanges. In other words, the ultimate goal of this bill is to decouple trade from the countries buying Russian oil.
If the Russian oil giant does not really go to Russia to buy energy because of the fear of high tariffs imposed by the United States, then Putin will have a headache, and in extreme cases the Russian financial system will collapse, possibly even the supply and wages of the front forces cannot be guaranteed.
Therefore, how to deal with Rosneft is a topic of great concern to Putin.
Given that it’s hard to make this clear on the phone, Trump and Putin should focus on talking in Hungary. Russia may be willing to make some concessions at the military level in exchange for the United States keeping a blind eye to the purchase of Russian oil.Alternatively, a limit can be set, stipulating that the annual purchase quantity will not be affected by secondary tariffs within a certain range, and a 500% tariff will be imposed on the amount exceeding it.
As for selling crude oil as he pleases, unless Putin signs the US-led Russia-Ukraine armistice agreement, Trump cannot agree.
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