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Vladimir Putin Knows how to manipulate Donald trump and there are no intention of stopping the war In ukraine Despite the US President’s call for peace, a top former White House aide has issued a warning.
fiona hillWas a National Security Advisor during trumpFirst administration and an expert RussiaMeetings between two individuals were observed regularly.
In an exclusive interview with The Independent’s podcast world of trouble, She describes how Putin “got Trump’s number” and felt able to mock the US president to his face, relying on the language barrier to hide his irritation.
Hill explains Putin uses flattery to stroke Trump’s ego he will do as he pleases In ukraine: “It is extremely difficult to see how Putin can let this go.
“Their entire economy, their entire society, their entire politics, their entire self-preservation revolves around continuing this war.”
His startling insight comes as Trump claims “tremendous progress” has been made toward peace after days of turmoil. diplomatic spat,
Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff is set to travel to Moscow early next week to discuss ending the war with a revised plan to end hostilities drawn up with European leaders and Ukraine.
Putin has already pushed back on the possibility of a deal, saying Ukraine would have to give up much of its territory.
In an hour-long interview, Hill, an Anglo-American and now a fellow at the thinktank The Brookings Institute, explains how Putin knows how to flatter Trump simply in the presence of world leaders.
The Russian president couldn’t resist the temptation to tease him – which translators hid from a naïve Trump.
Hill, a fluent Russian speaker, describes how she watched members of Trump’s team hide their amusement when the Russian president took the mickey out of The Don.
“One of the classic cases for me was the last meeting between Trump and Putin, which took place at the G20 in Osaka, Japan in 2019,” she says.
“In the conversation Putin and Trump were chest-beating about nuclear missiles and whatnot Russia Was ahead of the United States.
“And then they were both also bragging about how much they’re doing for Israel, respectively… Putin was basically talking about what Russia is doing. And Trump was saying, well, ‘No, there’s no way that Russia is a bigger supporter of Israel than I am.’
“And [he] He was talking about all the things he had done for Israel [recognition of the capital] In Jerusalem, a new embassy, et cetera, et cetera.
“Trump was saying he named all these things after him [in Israel] And Putin said ‘Okay Donald – maybe they should name the country after you?'”
Then the scene took a strange turn.
Hill adds: “I almost died laughing because I could see Bolton, Ambassador [John] Bolton, still national security adviser, was shaking his mustache.
“He came to understand that basically, he [Trump] Was being trolled.”
Hill points out that Putin often made similar jokes at Trump’s expense but that translators “boosted” the language and intent shown by the Russian president.
This may not have been necessary. In recent meetings with aides and his Cabinet, the notoriously thin-skinned Trump has shown that flattery, no matter how insincere, works.
So it was in Osaka.
Hill explains how Trump missed this taunt and the irony behind it. He took Putin’s statement to task that Israel’s name should be changed at face value.
Ignoring “the way Putin said it and the body language, the way he shifted in the seat”, Trump responded: ‘Oh no, that would be a little too much, that would be a little too much’.
Hill, who is chancellor of Durham University, was a witness during the US Congress’s impeachment proceedings against Trump in 2019 and is on record as saying that Russia interfered in the 2016 election that first brought Trump to power.
“The Russians’ interests are clearly in delegitimizing our entire presidency…the Russians’ goal [in 2016] In fact, anyone who becomes president by trying to keep his hand on one side of the scale is to be kept under a cloud, he said in 2019.
Talks about potential peace plans have intensified in recent weeks, with the original 28-point plan widely criticized as being pro-Russian.
Trump attacked Ukrainian President from the very first day of his presidency Volodymyr Zelenskywhom he does not see as his equal and accuses him of starting a war with Russia. He didn’t. Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and attacked again with full force in 2022.
But Hill does not believe the rumors and insinuations that Trump is supporting Russia against Ukraine because the US president is vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
She rejects theories that Trump, a multiple criminal who has been convicted of sexual assault in the US, could be blackmailed. “He’s an open book – we all have something to say about Trump!”
After a lifetime studying Russia and working with Trump, she has come to an even more sinister conclusion – which gives Putin his edge and influence. He believes Trump likes Putin because he sees the authoritarian Russian leader as his equal. And their relationship brings prestige to the American President.
“It’s an attraction to men,” she says. “It’s because Putin is a scoundrel. He’s what Trump would like to be.” “Trump sees people who are obviously in charge of everything, who basically have glitter and glitter on them. You know, they’re dressed in gold. And that’s what he wants to be. And he believes he’s elevated in everyone’s mind, by being with them, by their company.”
“And that’s the thing about Putin. Putin’s got their number. Putin realizes that this is a person with a very fragile ego, and this is someone who can be manipulated that way.
“Trump himself wants everyone who matters to be recognized.
“And all he gets is that he has the approval of people like President Xi of China, President Putin of Russia – the royal families here, there and everywhere. That’s what really matters to Trump – that’s the coin of the realm for him.”