Putin Likes the Fact That Trump Is Not Another Hypocritical Western Leader
The outgoing US administration painted itself into a corner with the Ukraine issue, says Dmitri Trenin. Above all, Russia’s cynical President Vladimir Putin expects to conclude agreements with the new US President Donald Trump regarding the Ukrainian question: to pressure Kyiv into implementing the Minsk agreements in Donbass and to promise not to accept Ukraine into NATO, explained the Director of the Moscow centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace—one ...