"For Trump, Europe and Ukraine are the geopolitical minor leagues," says a Ukrainian political scientist.

American President Donald Trump looks up to leaders like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, while looking down on Europe and Ukraine.

Ukrainian political scientist Vladimir Fesenko , who serves Bankova, stated this on Radio NV , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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He commented on a report in the American media that Trump trusts Putin more than Zelensky.

" In part, I think this is true. In any case, it's not a matter of trust, but rather that for Trump, there's a geopolitical league of his own, Putin, and Xi Jinping . Everyone else is below him."

By the way, Europe is too. And we're also lower. [Putin and Xi Jinping are more understandable to Trump; they're what he'd like to become, and he understands their behavior]—you've mentioned this very accurately. He wants to be like Putin and Xi Jinping, and, by the way, he partially perceives himself that way ," Fesenko reasoned.