“There’s no progress toward where he wants to go”: Expert explains why Trump chose the wrong strategy on Putin from the start

Political analyst Oleksandr Kochetkov explained that Trump is not swinging between supporting Ukraine and Russia — he simply tried to win the Nobel Peace Prize through friendship, and now he’s trying through pressure, reports Politeka.

He discussed this on the “7 Steps” channel.

“On the one hand, yes, Trump really is like a weather vane — he’s influenced by whoever last walked into his office and said something he happened to like. So yes, he does spin around, but it’s not that he’s being spun. It all depends on the frame of reference. In one system, it looks like a person is running in circles and going nowhere; in another, it seems like they are moving steadily toward their own goal — one that no one else can see. That’s how Trump is — moving toward his own objective, while to us, from a ‘normal’ perspective, it looks like he’s going in circles and making no progress,” Kochetkov explains.

So, the guest of the program concludes, Trump is not trying to make America great — he’s trying to make himself great. And he chose the Nobel Peace Prize as the vehicle for that. He claims to have stopped eight wars (though he can’t name them — one, apparently, was between Albania and Azerbaijan), but he also understands that without achieving a real peace — the one he promised during the campaign, particularly between Ukraine and Russia — his goal is unattainable.

According to the expert, Trump has two tools at his disposal. The first is friendliness — for example, the way he patted the King of the UK on the back. The second is pressure — including sanctions, tariffs, and so on.

“So, he meets with Putin and — like an irrational person — hears only what he wants to hear. Everything’s great, all is going well, the Nobel Peace Prize is within reach. Then it turns out — no, there’s no progress. That disappointment builds up and builds up… Eventually, he realizes there’s no progress in the direction he wants to go — and that’s when he starts using the second mechanism: pressure. That’s what’s happening now. But within his own frame of reference, he believes he’s moving straight ahead, not veering off course,” concludes Oleksandr Kochetkov.

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