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Trump raises stakes to Putin's life or death: expert on U.S.-Russia talks

Kate Kikot
28 January, 2025 Tuesday
20:38

Political expert Vadym Denysenko believes that the United States may be considering the physical destruction of Putin in order to put pressure on the negotiation process to end the Russian-Ukrainian war

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He expressed this opinion on Espreso TV.

“It's important to understand why Tucker Carlson announced the Biden administration's intentions to eliminate Putin right now. Let's start with the fact that it was Tucker Carlson who recently interviewed the Russian dictator. Accordingly, his statement will be of great interest to Russian intelligence services. We must understand that in recent weeks and months there has been a lot of talk about two areas of the negotiation process. In particular, the first is Putin's military logic, and the second is Donald Trump's trade thinking. There was a lot of talk that Trump, as a businessman, could not understand the Russian paranoid man who wanted to fight. A lot of theories were built around this,” Denysenko explained.

The political expert believes that the United States may consider the actual elimination of Russian leader Putin. According to Denysenko, Carlson's statement indicates that Donald Trump is preparing the ground for negotiations with Putin, who is most afraid of the physical destruction of him and the regime in Russia.

“Tucker Carlson's statement does not matter to Ukrainians. It simply changes the entire logic of the negotiation process. Until recently, there was an opinion that there was a complete consensus in the White House that no matter how the negotiations on the war in Ukraine ended, the issue of changing the Putin regime would not be on the agenda at all. Carlson's statement completely changes this opinion and indicates that the United States may consider regime change in Russia, which in turn will cause and will continue to cause paranoia in Putin's mind. He is a coward and most of all he is afraid of physical destruction. From this point of view, I think this is a kind of heavy preparation for future negotiations between the United States and Russia. As a matter of fact, Trump has raised the stakes to the level of Putin's life or death. It's hard to say what this will lead to next. However, I have no doubt that this is a very strong move by Trump,” he added.

  • According to Reuters, preparations are underway for a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
  • On January 20, Putin announced that Moscow was open to dialogue with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over the war in Ukraine.
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