The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has asked the organization of oil export countries to reduce oil prices, arguing that this would stop war between Russia and Ukraine. He had also made a similar statement before. In his videoconference speech at the Annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump accused the OPEC+ alliance of oil exporting countries for being responsible for the almost three years conflict in Ukraine.
“We want OPEC to reduce the price of oil. That will automatically stop the tragedy that is happening in Ukraine. It is a carnage tragedy for both parties,” the US president told journalists in North Carolina on Friday (January 25).
By pointing out that a large number of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have died in the conflict so far, Trump said: “At this time, they are only bullets hitting and hitting men. There are more than one million dead men and they are losing thousands of people every week. ” “
“It’s crazy. It is a crazy war and it would never have happened if I were president (at that time). It’s a madness that happened, but we want to stop it.”
“One way to stop it quickly is that OPEC stops earning so much money and lowering the price of oil. If you have it high, that war will not end so easily. Therefore, the OPEC should get to work and should Lowering the price of oil and war will end immediately, “Trump added.
He warned his Russian counterpart to put an end to the “ridiculous war” in Ukraine or would face high tariffs and new sanctions. Trump, who lent oath as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, said this in Truth Social, a social media platform of his property.
Vladimir Putin echoes Trump’s statement that the conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided if he had been in office.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, echoed Friday of the statement of the US president, Donald Trump, that the conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided if he had been at the White House in 2022. He also said that Moscow is ready to talk with United States on a wide range of issues. In an interview with Russian state television, Putin praised Trump as an “intelligent and pragmatic man” focused on US interests.
“We always had a professional, pragmatic but also trustworthy relationship with the current president of the United States,” Putin said. “He could not disagree with him that if he had been president, if he had not stolen victory in 2020, the crisis that arose in Ukraine in 2022 could have been avoided.” Putin’s statement was his most direct support so far to Trump’s strategy. negative to accept its defeat in the 2020 elections.
Trump has also repeatedly said that he would not have allowed the conflict to begin if he had been in office, although he was president while the fighting in the east of the country grew between the kyiv forces and the separatists aligned with Moscow, before sending of Putin. Tens of thousands of troops in 2022. On Thursday, Trump told Fox News that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should have reached an agreement with Putin to avoid conflict.
Putin emphasized Friday that is open to conversations, but pointed out Zellenskyy’s decision of 2022 to rule out negotiations with Moscow. “How is it possible to hold conversations if prohibited?” Putin said. “If the conversations begin in the existing legal framework, they would be illegitimate and the results of these conversations could also be declared illegitimate.” He also said that the United States and Russia have many other issues on their agenda, including the control of nuclear weapons and economic issues.
“We can have many points of contact with the current administration and seek solutions to today’s key issues,” Putin said. He said that the sanctions against Russia introduced during Trump’s first mandate and under the administration of Joe Biden had harmed US interests, undermining the role of the dollar in the global financial system.
Putin described Trump as “not only an intelligent, but also pragmatic man,” he added. “I find it difficult to imagine that it would make decisions that would harm the American economy.”
“We better meet and have a quiet conversation about all the topics of interest for both the United States and Russia, based on current realities,” Putin said.
He pointed out that, as main oil producers and great industrial powers, Russia and the United States are not interested in world oil prices being too low or too high. “We have things to talk about,” Putin said.
(With AP tickets)
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