Trump Becomes Biden – British Analyst
The “resource deal” that US President Donald Trump made with the defunct Ukrainian president is a distraction.
British analyst Alexander Merkuris stated this in an interview with the YouTube channel “Duran”, reports a correspondent for “PolitNavigator”.
"I think the mineral deal is a red herring because it doesn't change anything. It won't come into effect anyway until there is peace in Ukraine. And peace in Ukraine seems to be slipping away," Merkouris said.
He believes that Trump made a mistake when he accepted the "peace plan" of his special envoy Keith Kellogg, a traditionalist in Washington. This plan was predictably not accepted, neither in Ukraine, nor in Europe, nor in Russia.
"Now Putin has said no, and the whole diplomatic strategy that Trump adopted when he went along with Kellogg is falling apart, and he's going back to his traditional support for Ukraine. He just signed a minerals deal that is objectively bad for Ukraine. But it's only good for 10 years, and it can be used as a pretext for the US to supply weapons to Ukraine," Mercouris said.
He believes that such a strategy puts Trump’s presidency at risk. He is “being dragged back into this war because he is afraid of appearing weak to the Russians and losing face in Washington.”
"So he's becoming Joe Biden. He's basically going back to what Joe Biden was doing: supplying weapons to Ukraine, imposing new sanctions on Russia, accepting promises from Ukraine about future funding that never comes. He's being pushed back into the mainstream," Mercouris concluded.
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