{"id":1307672,"date":"2025-10-17T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-tomahawk-and-carrot-method-putin-and-trump-continue-to-trade-air\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T06:07:47","slug":"the-tomahawk-and-carrot-method-putin-and-trump-continue-to-trade-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-tomahawk-and-carrot-method-putin-and-trump-continue-to-trade-air\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tomahawk and the Carrot: When Dictators Flirt with Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: Author&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sergey.fursa\/posts\/pfbid0vcyGBfJ6cG3zjiVtpPoinKuLYJEu6DmomeGzaVMy4FyW23zzALTT3sBqDApTwCRGl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Donald Trump has returned to his favorite strategy \u2014 the Tomahawk and Carrot method. He flatters and threatens Vladimir Putin in the same breath, hoping to extract concessions without commitment. Putin, a master illusionist, plays along \u2014 offering not peace, but performance. It\u2019s a romance of convenience, rich in spectacle and poor in substance. Enough to feed Trump\u2019s ego, but not enough to end the war \u2014 or earn him the Nobel Peace Prize he quietly dreams of.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"125\" data-end=\"201\">Is this what Trump needs? Who knows. But it\u2019s definitely not what we need.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"203\" data-end=\"534\">Trump and Putin are still trading air. Even if the Tomahawks reached Ukraine \u2014 and then flew on to Russia \u2014 little would change on the battlefield or in Russia\u2019s economy. Fifty cruise missiles equal a single Russian strike on Ukraine, adjusted for scale and geography. Still, for us, it would count as welcome political progress.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"704\">Even if Rubio and Lavrov managed to arrange a Trump\u2013Putin meeting in Budapest, it would do little to change the course of the war or the situation on the front lines.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"706\" data-end=\"1032\">As long as Putin can keep selling Trump illusions and remains unwilling to end the war, the Tomahawk-and-Carrot method will fail. The only method that works with Putin is Tomahawks and sanctions. And that\u2019s precisely what Trump refuses to use \u2014 no matter how many Western publications insist that he\u2019s \u201cfurious\u201d with Putin.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1034\" data-end=\"1135\">Because hopes and illusions win easily \u2014 when you\u2019re eighteen. And, apparently, when you\u2019re eighty.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/tomahawks-for-ukraine-will-this-change-the-situation-on-the-front\/\">\u201cTomahawks\u201d for Ukraine: will this change the situation on the front?<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"380\">And we don\u2019t need any illusions about 500-percent tariffs on China. That\u2019s not peacemaking \u2014 that\u2019s Trump\u2019s trade war with Beijing. There\u2019s already talk of 100-percent tariffs. Whether he adds another 500, 1,000, or even 100,500 no longer matters.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"382\" data-end=\"702\">Is everything lost? Not yet. The reparations loan issue is moving forward. The EU is writing a bigger check \u2014 and Putin can\u2019t. That money will also fund American weapons, maybe even a few Tomahawks in due course. There\u2019s progress with India too, which seems ready to replace at least part of Russian oil with American.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"704\" data-end=\"816\">Just don\u2019t expect a miracle from the White House tonight. And, most importantly, don\u2019t let anything go wrong.<\/p>\n<p><em>As a reminder, US President Donald Trump shared the first details of his <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-proviv-telefonni-perehovory-z-putinym-zustrinetsia-z-nym-v-uhorshchyni\/\">telephone conversation with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin<\/a> on the evening of October 16. The American leader stressed that the conversation was productive, as was the fact that Putin congratulated him on his great success in resolving the war in the Middle East.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now, the US president intends to meet with the Kremlin leader in Hungary to end Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine. Trump also confirmed that he will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on October 17. In fact, he intends to discuss with Zelenskyy the details of his conversation with Putin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 Materials published in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section reflect the opinion of the author of the publication, who bears full responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The editorial staff of prm.ua may not share the opinions expressed in the author&#8217;s material.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The owner of the webpage in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section is the author of the publication.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Author&#8217;s Facebook page Donald Trump has returned to his favorite strategy \u2014 the Tomahawk and Carrot method. He flatters and threatens Vladimir Putin in the same breath, hoping to extract concessions without commitment. Putin, a master illusionist, plays along \u2014 offering not peace, but performance. It\u2019s a romance of convenience, rich in spectacle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1285428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76893],"class_list":["post-1307672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308164,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307672\/revisions\/1308164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1285428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}