For Donald Trump, Monday’s call with Vladimir Putin evoked the hope of a bright future of “largescale TRADE” between Russia and the US, “when this catastrophic ‘bloodbath’ is over”.
Yuri Ushakov, the Russian leader’s foreign policy adviser, said the tone of the two-hour conversation was so friendly that neither president wanted to be the first to put down the phone.
To the Ukrainians and allies in Europe it felt like a betrayal.
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