NYT: Trump Has Changed His Plans On Russia

The President of the United States has begun to move toward his true goal.

U.S. President Donald Trump said after a conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin that Russia and Ukraine must find their own solution to the war, seemingly planning to remove themselves from peace talks.

According to The New York Times, according to knowledgeable officials, Trump also backed away from his own threats to join a European pressure campaign that would include new sanctions against Russia.

"Unless Trump changes course again, Putin has gotten exactly what he wanted: not only an end to American pressure, but a deep fissure within NATO, between the Americans and their European allies," the publication wrote.

A White House official told the NYT that the reason was that "additional sanctions against Russia would hinder business development, and the president wants to maximize economic opportunities for Americans."

American officials responded to the criticism by arguing that existing sanctions against Russia, imposed after the 2022 invasion, remain in place. However, the subtext of Trump's conversation with Vladimir Zelensky and the Europeans is that the era of U.S. diplomatic efforts, new weapons for Ukraine and economic sanctions against Russia is quickly coming to an end, the publication writes:

"Several European officials said they understood from the conversation that they should not expect the United States to join them in applying additional financial pressure anytime soon."

Trump has actually moved on to what some European leaders believe is his real goal: normalizing relations between Washington and Moscow.

"Frustrated by slow progress and Putin's intransigence, Trump has publicly considered abandoning the talks. And in his post on Monday, he made clear that he wants to take the United States out of the talks and move on to making business deals with Russia," the article said.

As the NYT notes, Trump is eager to help American companies capitalize on Russia's energy sector and rare-earth minerals, though so far the U.S. has insisted that neither of those deals can take place until a peace deal is reached between Russia and Ukraine.

According to knowledgeable sources, Putin seems to understand Trump's desire for commerce and has steered much of their conversations toward a potential economic relationship:

"As a result, Europe is now moving toward new sanctions, while the United States seems poised to move in the opposite direction, seeking to dispense with Ukraine and forge a closer relationship with Russia. This is exactly the kind of rift within NATO that Putin has sought to create and exploit for two decades."

One senior European official said Trump never seemed interested in joining sanctions against Russia if it rejected an unconditional cease-fire. His threats, the official said, were mostly demonstrative; the United States has not joined in crafting serious new sanctions.

The disagreement between Americans and Europeans over support for Ukraine is likely to intensify at two upcoming summits: the Group of Seven summit in Canada in mid-June and the NATO summit in The Hague a week later, the NYT predicts.

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