THE top diplomats from Russia and the US met in the Saudi capital Tuesday for a marathon four-and-a-half hours’ worth of talks on Ukraine and the search for some semblance of normalcy in ties between the nuclear superpowers. Sputnik reached out to veteran former US DoD insider Karen Kwiatkowski to get a sense of the meeting’s significance.
Donald Trump “has a big list of things that he wants to accomplish in a very short amount of time” and his goal vis-a-vis Ukraine is to take the issue “off of the front burner”, Kwiatkowski, a retired US Air Force Lt-Col and ex-DoD and NSA analyst-turned whistleblower, explained.
The US president appears to see the Ukrainian crisis “as a problem for the United States and for Europe and for Russia that really can be resolved”, and is proving “very willing to work directly with Russia because he is back to realism in a sense”, Kwiatkowski noted.
“This is the beginning of the end of US government Russophobia and moving into a much better space. It’s very, very important,” the international politics and military expert emphasized.
“Trump is bringing back not just great power politics, but a very realistic approach” to world affairs. “We have major potential partners, potential adversaries, and Trump believes in dealing with them rather than ignoring them or trying to pick fights with them,” Kwiatkowski said.
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