Fiona Hill
Appearances
Apple News Today
Trump says Putin has gone “CRAZY.” What next for the war in Ukraine?
But Trump, he wants Ukraine just off the docket. There's a kind of, if they don't make any progress, then they're just going to move beyond it.
Apple News Today
Trump says Putin has gone “CRAZY.” What next for the war in Ukraine?
We have a president in the form of Donald Trump, who actually has the same worldview or a very similar worldview to Vladimir Putin. He sees the world in terms of big powers carving everything up. And from the very beginning, he said, Ukraine's not my war. I don't want anything to do with that. I want to get on with, you know, meeting, you know, with Putin and sorting out other issues.
Apple News Today
Trump says Putin has gone “CRAZY.” What next for the war in Ukraine?
I think the doctrine is fairly clear and Trump has been very consistent. Making America great again means America first or rather him and his immediate circle first. Everything is sort of a dealing with him as a sovereign, you know, really rather than even a unified executive branch representative. He's definitely pulling everything back to home and if he does indeed make deals,
Apple News Today
Trump says Putin has gone “CRAZY.” What next for the war in Ukraine?
with Russia, with China, with Iran, then North Korea again. I think his argument would be that, well, we've basically cut off any risks for the United States. This is the end of the international system as we know it. I mean, frankly, it's been crumbling for quite a long period of time.
Pivot
Roberts Criticizes Trump, FTC Firings, and White House Installs Starlink
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Pivot
Roberts Criticizes Trump, FTC Firings, and White House Installs Starlink
The big difference between Trump and Putin is is Trump is a totally one-man show. He's destroying the state. Putin operates within the state. He's a creature of the deep state. He's not dismantling the Russian state. That was already dismantled, you know, under Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. For Trump, he doesn't really pay any attention to any of the people around him.
Pivot
Roberts Criticizes Trump, FTC Firings, and White House Installs Starlink
He uses them as emissaries and envoys, but he doesn't do his homework. They can't actually advise him on anything. And that makes Trump very unpredictable. So I think if Putin's looking at his own crystal ball, he also can't say where this is going to go.