In what is coming as one of the most blunt backs of the refusal of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to accept the defeat in the presidential elections of 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the crisis in Ukraine would not have emerged if “They would not have stolen his victory (Trump) in 2020 ‘. Putin, who was being interviewed by Russian state television, praised Trump when he called him an” intelligent and pragmatic man. ”
This is what Putin said
Putin was responding to repeated Trump statements in which he stressed that under his surveillance as president, the crisis would not have developed in Ukraine. Putin said: “He could not disagree with him that if he had been president, if they had not stolen his victory in 2020, the crisis that arose in Ukraine in 2022 could have been avoided.”
Although Trump states that he would not have allowed the conflict to begin if he had been in office, the fighting grew east of the country between kyiv’s forces and the separatists aligned with Moscow, before Putin sends tens of thousands of troops in 2022 During your presidency.
Putin also said that the sanctions imposed on Russia during Trump’s first mandate and under the administration of Joe Biden had damaged the interests of the United States, undermining the role of the dollar in the global financial system.
We better find ourselves and have a quiet conversation: Putin
The Russian president expressed his desire to meet Trump, saying: “We better find ourselves and have a quiet conversation about all the issues of interest for both the United States and Russia based on today’s realities.”
Trump, who went to the Annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday said that the OPEC+ alliance of oil exporting countries shares the responsibility of the almost 3 years conflict in Ukraine because it has maintained too high oil prices . “If the price fell, Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately,” he said.
In particular, an important part of Russian exports is in the form of energy, which has maintained the fluid Russian economy in the middle of the war.
Putin emphasized that, as the main oil producers and the main industrial powers, both Russia and the United States are not interested in world oil prices are too low or too high.
(With AP tickets)
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