He is seriously deranged – Peter
We know that Donald Trump has long had a soft spot for Vladimir Putin. But now it’s almost as if he’s given him a spot in his administration.
The US president has said that Russia’s Putin on the weekend had phoned to offer himself as a new peace mediator in the war between Israel and Iran: “We had a long talk about it,” Trump told the American news network ABC. “I would be open to it. He [Putin] is ready.”
Trump himself has proved unable to negotiate an end to any of the conflicts he’d promised to resolve. So perhaps it’s a good idea to let Putin try?
French President Emmanuel Macron doesn’t think so. “I do not think that Russia, which is today engaged in a high-intensity conflict and has decided not to respect the United Nations charter for several years now, could be in any way a mediator,” he said.
Fair point. And Putin has a favourite in the fight. Moscow is the most important foreign sponsor of Iran’s ayatollah regime. Appointing Putin mediator would be like allowing a football team’s coach to referee his own team’s match.
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