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18 March 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
On March 18th, Trump and Putin agreed on a deal in which Ukraine and Russia will have a 30-day ceasefire on attacks against each other’s energy infrastructure. The following superb discussion about it by three objective experts on geostrategy — Ray McGovern and Larry Johnson, retired from the CIA, and Glenn Diesen, of the University of South-Eastern Norway — follows here:
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern drop truth bombs on Trump’s major military campaign on Yemen which has sent shockwaves throughout the Middle East and the world. They are joined on Danny Haiphong’s program by geopolitical expert Glenn Diesen to discuss the wider geopolitical implications of yet another military quagmire that could spell doom for Trump.
[su_note note_color=”#fcf0df” text_color=”#0c0a0a” radius=”6″]Editor’s Note: Was Putin taken in by Trump? Really? The headline may be a bit misleading in this case, as the substance and consequences of this telephone call are still being studied and teased out by many geopolitical analysts with widely differing viewpoints.—PG[/su_note]
Much of the opening part deals with Russian troops having surrounded the around ten thousand troops of Ukraine and its mercenaries, in a “cauldron” inside Russia’s province of Kursk, and Trump urging Putin not to simply eliminate (kill) them all and end the Ukrainian invasion and occupation of the Kursk region of Russia — for Putin to instead allow them to live.
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Glenn Diesen very correctly points out that this is a trap set for Putin by Trump, and which will be cooperated-in by the leaders in Europe, but he concludes it with “this could be seen as something positive” and “I think uh, it was a…it was a good way to handle it” and “I don’t see how it could have played out much, much different than what it did” (i.e., by Putin’s falling into that trap). Diesen says that Putin so much wants what Trump can provide, so that Putin had to cave and accept this ‘ceasefire’. However, as Diesen himself has already pointed out, this ‘ceasefire’ is unlikely to work, and Putin will almost certainly get the blame; and, thus, “otherwise [i.e., if the ceasefire fails (or if Putin were to have rejected it)] it’s time for Trump to sanction the hell out of Russia.” In other words: Trump and his European stooges will then slap on even more sanctions against Russia and send Zelensky even more support. Of course, inside the U.S., this would mean that the Republicans and Democrats will be even more unified against Russia than they were under Biden, and that the ‘Defense’ Department will get even bigger budgetary increases than had previously been expected under Trump.
Perhaps Diesen and Putin expect Trump suddenly to have some decency. I can’t see any reason for such an expectation. I therefore don’t agree with Diesen’s conclusions about this matter, nor with Putin’s having gone along with this ‘ceasefire’. I instead view this ‘ceasefire’ as being likeliest to be a boon ONLY to the owners of Lockheed and other such corporations.
However, on March 18th, after the Trump-Putin phone call, Alexander Mercouris, the indispensable public analyst of international relations, provided an entirely different analysis, and that is to be seen here:
https://theduran.com/trump-putin-call-us-russia-on-track-towards-deal-live/ “Trump-Putin call; US-Russia on track towards deal (Live)”
His major point is that Russia’s bombings of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure occur only once every 30 days, and the latest one just finished; and, so, Putin’s having accepted this ‘ceasefire’ constitutes no real concession at all. His other biggest point, made during a Q&A at 49:00, is that “This has been the single most important conversation that’s happened between American and Russian presidents for many many years now. We are now definitely on the route towards a Russian American rapprochement. The previous call [between Trump and Putin] was important because it broke through the log jam, but this [one] is giving us now an actual way forward — the setting up of expert groups, the agreement that this conflict must be settled and that it must be settled through bilateral discussions between the Russia and the United States.” I am disinclined to agree with his argument in this case, because Trump’s attitude favoring what Israel is now clearly doing to the Palestinians, not only in Gaza but increasingly also in the West Bank, is psychopathic, as also are his stated threats against Panama, Canada, Greenland and Denmark if they refuse to sell their lands to the U.S. Government. (Not to mention his slashing America’s own Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, while boosting spending on U.S. armaments.) If Trump is aiming to achieve peace with Russia at the expense of China, or of Iran, that will likelier mean an American war against all three of those nations. So, I do not share Mercouris’s view that Trump is sincerely well-intentioned. In this matter, I believe that both Diesen and Mercouris are counter-factually optimistic about Trump.
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what utter nonsense on what planet do you live to think trump can make Putin cave on any ukraine issue. Putin is in drivers seat and will dictate what happens in Ukraine period