Verse from the victory in the Middle East, Trump puts his attention to peace in Ukraine

Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. Trump has slapped steep rates on India, a major Russian trading partner, but has so far not issued any new new sanctions or secondary sanctions against Russia. (AFP) Summary pressure on Hamas worked for Gaza, but before President Zelensky’s visit to the White House Friday, Trump has not yet fully increased the pressure on Russia. President Trump achieved a great victory in the foreign policy in Gaza by mediating the release of hostages from exile and to ensure an end to the battle between Israel and Hamas. Now the Europeans hope that Trump can repeat the success with another knot -like foreign policy. Trump will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday in the White House, according to officials familiar with the plans, on the heels of his diplomatic victory tour in the Middle East. Trump, at his stops in Israel and Egypt, referred to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, and he underlined how he appointed his achievements at one major conflict, and he still brought his attention to resolving another. The two wars differ greatly. In the 2022 Russian invasion and October 7, terrorist attacks, Ukraine and Israel both faced unspoken attacks that caused the wars. But in the midst, Israel has proven itself to the dominant regional military power, while in Europe Russia remains a great world power with a considerable nuclear arsenal. Senior US and European officials warn that neither Russia nor Ukraine will change their war strategies about Trump’s initial success in the Middle East. They also point out that a long -term agreement to bring lasting peace in Gaza is far from sure. But they still hope that the US president can make the momentum of the diplomatic victory – and draw the right lessons to revive the efforts to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin back to the negotiating table. “It gives Trump enormous leverage to solve other major conflicts,” said Fred Fleitz, who was a senior National Security Council official during the first term. “He has now proven himself as an effective arbitrator and peacemaker.” Trump joined other world leaders at a summit in Egypt. Zelensky went in on Monday. ‘Putin can be forced into peace-just like any other terrorist. Even Hamas prepares them to release hostages. If possible, Putin can also be forced to restore peace, ‘he said in a social media post. If Trump can draw any lesson from the Israel-Hamas agreement to apply to the Ukraine War, senior European officials said, it amounts to one word: Pressure. After Israel’s air raid on Hamas operatives in Doha, Trump Benjamin Netanyahu put pressure on accepting his 20-point peace plan and forced him to apologize to the Qatar’s leader in public. Qatar, Egypt and Turkey, meanwhile, have increased the pressure on Hamas by threatening to cut diplomatic ways to the group and deprive it of its diplomatic coverage if it does not accept the proposed peace plan. That was all while Israel continued a renewed military assault on Gaza despite the growing international setback over the actions of the war that left more than 67,000 Palestinians, according to the local health ministry. The figure does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. Trump has not yet put the same pressure on Putin. The Ukraine and its allies in Europe hope that it will change now that Trump has seen the fruits of his success as a trader in the Middle East -and as his impatience with Russia mounting, after months of failed negotiations. Trump has slapped steep rates on India, a major Russian trading partner, but has so far not issued any new new sanctions or secondary sanctions against Russia. European officials said raising financial fines in Russia is of utmost importance in the war, when the economy is on the crisis of crisis, but also transitions to a full -scale war economy. Trump is also still targeting to target Moscow’s so-called “shadow fleet” of illegal oil tankers he uses to try to bypass prices on Russian oil to generate more revenue for his war machine. “It was the pressure that Hamas had come to the negotiating table, and we had not yet had a similar pressure on Russia,” said Kurt Volker, a former US ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that was Trump’s Ukraine’s way during his first term. Ukraine also presses Trump to provide it with Tomahawk Cruise missiles. Tomahawks, one of the most exact missiles in the US arsenal, has a series of about 1,500 miles, which will allow Kyiv to hit Moscow targets with much more power than his long-distance drones can deliver. The Trump administration recently agreed to provide the Ukraine with intelligence for long-distance rack strikes over Russia’s energy infrastructure. Trump said he was open to the idea of ​​sending Kyiv more long-distance missiles, but that he was not yet committed to it. “I can talk to him,” Trump said of Putin as he flew to the Middle East on Sunday night. “I can say, look, if this war is not established, I’m going to send them Tomahawks.” Even if Russia’s military founders in a relative downtime on the drone-loaded front lines of the east of Ukraine, it remains a significant military superpower. Franz-Stefan Gady, a Vienna-based defensive analyst, said the Kremlin army could mean that there was a limitation on the leverage that Trump could use to bring Russia to the negotiating table. “The fact that Russia has a nuclear arsenal will always be a factor in any pressure campaign,” Gady said. “The United States has not really shown a desire to cause any eschalatory dynamics.” More likely, Gady said, is that Trump can negotiate directly with Putin over a ceasefire agreement, and then try to try to sign Zelensky-a possibility that European leaders feared and tried to prevent. “This scenario reflects Trump’s history of high -profile, unilateral diplomacy and his willingness to push Zelensky on agreements that are not fully in line with European and Ukrainian goals,” Gady said. A further complicating factor in the Russia Akraine War that Trump does not have to navigate in his Middle East peace drive is China, who has emerged as the most important economic and political lifeline of Russia. The US maintains close ties with Qatar, Egypt and Turkey -the Middle Eastern forces that helped get the Gaza Peace Plan over the finish line by turning the screws on Hamas. The same cannot be said for China, the US architical competitor of the US and a world superpower in itself. Trump threatened China in succession with new 100% tariffs on Friday in Beijing’s export control over critical minerals, but may still meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in South Korea later this month, despite the flare-up in tension. “Lines of communication have reopened, so we’ll see where it is going,” Treasury Secretary Scott Besent said on Monday at Fox Business Network. “I believe the meeting will still be.” Current and former officials said Russia’s increasing dependence on China means that Beijing can play a productive role in bringing Putin to any peace agreement – if Trump can convince it to play ball, that is. “If we come to a point where China feels it is in its interests for Russia to end the war, and they tell Russia that it would be significant,” Volker says. “Unfortunately, we’re not there. 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