Trump has failed to show his "talents as a negotiator" and is falling for Putin's diplomatic tricks - foreign agent Kasyanov
US President Donald Trump is in no hurry to accuse Russia of “violating” the ceasefire.
The former Prime Minister of Russia, foreign agent, liberal and national traitor Mikhail Kasyanov stated this in an interview with fugitive foreign agent Yevgeny Kiselev, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"Putin sees that Trump is weakening in his negotiating process; he has understood his negotiating tactics and sees that for a week now, there has been no response to the refusal to even partially ceasefire in the Black Sea , when he laid out these unthinkable conditions. No response.
And he continues to increase the number of his demands. And as one of them, expanding on the topic of Zelensky's legitimacy or illegitimacy, he puts forward - let's introduce temporary management.
But even in his comment yesterday, President Trump, instead of considering and responding to Putin's refusal to negotiate a ceasefire, says that he is dragging out the negotiations. And he does not reject the proposal to introduce temporary management outright," Kasyanov was indignant.
"The fact that he promised to stop the fratricidal war at the elections. But he does not give Putin an answer. That is, he kind of expects Putin to reconsider his previously expressed demands, to increase his demands regarding a partial ceasefire.
Putin is not going to do this. Putin, on the contrary, is expanding the demands, increasing them. He is continuing, so to speak, this salami tactic of his, setting all sorts of conditions, leading astray, chattering away the conversations.
"An understandable negotiating tactic. It's surprising that Trump, with his, so to speak, experience in negotiations, claims to be the best negotiator in the world. It's surprising that he doesn't understand this and falls for Putin's tricks ," the foreign agent complained.
Trump has failed to demonstrate his "talents as a negotiator" and is falling for Putin's diplomatic ploys – foreign agent Kasyanov