{"id":1309655,"date":"2025-10-21T20:21:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/back-in-the-same-boat-why-trump-still-trusts-putin\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T20:21:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:21:04","slug":"back-in-the-same-boat-why-trump-still-trusts-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/back-in-the-same-boat-why-trump-still-trusts-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBack in the same boat\u201d: why Trump still trusts Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United States still believes the promises of the Kremlin, which continues to lie and make excuses to stall for time and divide the anti-Putin coalition. At the same time, the meeting with the Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin in Alaska has taught US President Donald Trump nothing and he is &#8220;stepping on the same rake again.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dGxHkV9VAyQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was expressed<\/a> on the air of &#8220;Pryamoy&#8221; by the executive director of the Economic Discussion Club, Oleg Pendzin.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;No one knows what happened during the phone call between Trump and Putin. The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister is talking about postponing the meeting, which no one agreed on&#8230; Yes, this is a classic version of referring to a little erotic journey of the esteemed Mr. Trump and his administration. Once again, by the way,&#8221; Pendzin ironically says.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dGxHkV9VAyQ<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/war-as-a-guarantee-of-existence-why-negotiations-with-putin-make-no-sense\/\">War as Survival: Why Talking to Putin Is a Dead End<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> At the same time, he expressed surprise that the United States still believes in the Kremlin&#8217;s lies and promises.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Sometimes I am surprised by the situation when our American partners &#8211; I won&#8217;t say &#8220;friends&#8221; &#8211; really don&#8217;t learn anything. It&#8217;s just some kind of horror. That is, they constantly fall for the same rake. And I have the feeling that this, you know, some kind of aesthetic pleasure is obtained as a result. Because Russia is stalling for time, coming up with excuses, looking for opportunities to break up the anti-Putin coalition. At the same time, America is completely calm about it. Losing ratings, losing the trust of partners, wasting time, it continues to do so,&#8221; the economic expert explains.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-rozliutyvsia-i-led-ne-pishov-podrobytsi-zustrichi-prezydentiv-ssha-i-rf-na-aliastsi\/\">the meeting with Kremlin dictator<\/a> Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15 taught US President Donald Trump nothing and he is &#8220;stepping on the same rake again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Let&#8217;s remember Anchorage. How long did it take for Trump to finally wipe his spit-stained face with a napkin and say: &#8220;Indeed, this is a complete lie.&#8221; A call from Russia &#8211; and that&#8217;s it, as if there was no rubbing and nothing happened&#8230; And again let&#8217;s wait two or three weeks, again the US parliament postponed the bill on sanctions against Russia,&#8221; Pendzin recalls.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" data-right>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-tomahawk-and-carrot-method-putin-and-trump-continue-to-trade-air\/\">The Tomahawk and the Carrot: When Dictators Flirt with Democracy<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> &#8220;How many more times does Trump have to step on the same rake to finally understand that you can&#8217;t negotiate with the person sitting in the Kremlin in principle. And here it is again two weeks, another meeting between Rubio and Lavrov, again it won&#8217;t take place. We understand that Trump won&#8217;t fly to Budapest, Putin won&#8217;t fly to Budapest. Because there won&#8217;t be anything to fly with. Because the Russians have been bargaining again for two or three weeks, or even a month,&#8221; noted Oleg Pendzin, executive director of the Economic Discussion Club.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, US President Donald Trump recently had a telephone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. During the talks, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-proviv-telefonni-perehovory-z-putinym-zustrinetsia-z-nym-v-uhorshchyni\/\">the presidents agreed to organize a summit in Budapest<\/a> . However, the groundwork for this meeting was to be provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/https-prm-ua-p-1309063-preview-true\/\">US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> It later became known that the expected talks between Rubio and Lavrov, which were supposed to take place this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/https-prm-ua-p-1309209-preview-true\/\">have been postponed indefinitely<\/a> . According to journalists, Washington concluded that the Kremlin&#8217;s position on the war against Ukraine has practically not changed. That is why Rubio will not advise US President Donald Trump to hold a meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p> As reported by &#8220;Pryamy&#8221;, the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Budapest <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zustrich-trampa-i-putina-vidklaly-ssha-vvazhaiut-storony-ne-hotovymy\/\">is currently suspended<\/a> . According to media reports, although the interstate dialogue between Rubio and Lavrov took place in a constructive tone, both sides, according to President Trump, are not yet ready to move on to organizing a summit.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States still believes the promises of the Kremlin, which continues to lie and make excuses to stall for time and divide the anti-Putin coalition. At the same time, the meeting with the Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin in Alaska has taught US President Donald Trump nothing and he is &#8220;stepping on the same rake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1285422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76885,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1309655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309655","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=1309655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1285422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}