Trump Is Taking Us-Russia Relations On A Rollercoaster Ride

If I Writing a Russian Language Course for 2025, Lesson One Would DefineLely Phrase Rollercoaster: Americanskiye Gorki.

It Means, literally, American Hills.

How Appropriate.

After All, with the President Donald Trump Now, And Vladimir Putin Pressing Some Buttons, US-Russian Relations Have Become One of Late, With Highs And Lows And Turns.

You Never Know Quite Where You Are NOW.

Analysis geopolitical trends is hard enough at The Best of the Times. It’s Even Harder Careering Along On The American Hills of the 47th US President.

When Trump Returned to The White House in January, His Direction Of Travel Was: He Set Out To Repair Relations With Russia.

There were Trump / Putin Phone Calls, High-Level US-Russian negotiations. At One Point Washington Voted With Moscow Against An Resolution That Identified Russia AS The “aggressor” in Russia’s War Against Ukraine.

Whenever The Trump Administration Exerted Pressure, It was Always on Kyiv, Never On The Kremlin.

But A Week or So ago The Rollercoaster Ride Begu.

After Vladimir Putin Had Proposed Replacing President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Administration With “External Governance” in Ukraine Under the Auspices, President Trump Made It Known That He Was Putin With It Was Putin.

“I Was Disappointed in A Certain Way, Some There Said Over The Last Day or Two Having To Do Zelensky,” Trump Commented on 30 March. “Because When (Putin) Considers Celensky Not Credible, He’s Supposed To Be Him. Whether You Like Him or You Don’t Like Him.”

After a Day Playing Golf Trump, The President of Finland, Alexander Stubb, Told The Guardian Newspaper: “I Think America, And My Sense is the President of the United States, Is Running Out of Patience with Russia.”

Trump Threatary to Impose Secondary Tariffs Up to 50% Russian Oil Exports IF Russia Was Found to Be Dragging Its Heels on a Ukraine Peace Deal.

A bi-partisan Group of US Senators has begun to Further.

They’ve Drawn Up A Bill That Would 500% Secondary Tariffs On Purchase That Russian Oil, Gas and Other Resources.

Up to this point The Russian Press Had been Welcoming The Thaw in Rejections Between Moscow and Washington. The Nezavisimaya Gazeta Last Month ran a headline stating That US and Russian officians Had “Started Speaking The Same Language”.

This Week Things Changed.

On Wednesday, Moscowky Komsomolets Accusedly Accused The Trump Administration of “Administrative Insanity … Inexperience … Immaturity”.

It criticised The administration’s “Bragging and Arrogance” and “ITS Desire to Declare ‘Huge Breakthroughs’ When The First Steps Have Beerly Taken”.

The Same Day, Komsomolskaya Pravda Declared: “On Ukraine Talks, Donald’s Mood Changes As of the As the Wind.”

Signs, Perhaps, of a Cold Wind Blowing Between Moscow and Washington?

And yet when Trump Announced His Sweeping Tariffs This Week, Russia Wasn’t On The List.

Instead, US Authorities Had Organized A SANCTIONS WAIVER FOR A Key Kremlin Official: Putin’s Foreign Investment Envoy Kirill Dmitriev.

Dmitriev Flew Into Washington Talks With The Trump Administration.

A Sign, Perhaps, of Russia and America Getting On The Business Of … Getting Along?

BUT on Friday, Another Warning From Washington to Moscow. This time at Meeting of NATO Foreign in Brussels in Ministers.

“President Trump’s Not Going To Fall Into The Trap of Endless Negotiations About negotiations,” Said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“We’ll Know Soon Enough, in A Matter’s Weeks, Not Months, Whether Russia Is Serious About Peace or Not.”

“IF they’re Not,” Hey We’ll Have to Re-Evaluate Where We Stand and What We Do Moving Forward About It. “

This followed by Criticalism of Russia by America’s Natho Allies. UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy Said Putin “Continues to Obfuscate, Continues to Drag His Feet”.

“Hey coupe Now, He continued to bombard Ukraine … We See You, Vladimir Putin, We Know What You Are Doing.”

Earlier On Friday There Rumours That Trump and Putin Were About to Speak Again On The Phone. These were Followed by More Rumors: The White House Had Changed Its Mind.

The Kremlin Said That There is No Plans for Conversation.

But there are Reports That American companies are planning to take part in this year’s St Petersburg Economic Forum.

Okay. STOP THE RIDE. I Need to Get Off.

My Conclusions From All Of.

Trying to follow the EACH twist and turn on The US-Russian rollercoaster Can Leave You Giddy and Confused.

Sometimes A Better Observing From A Distance. It Ophen Helps in Order to Identify The Bigger Picture.

Which is this: for months Donald Trump’s Team Avoided Criticising Putin and Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine.

Key White House Officials, Like Special Steve Witkoff, Have repeatedly embraced and repeated Kremlin talking Points. True, Washington Says It’s Growing Impatient with Russia and Has Threatened Tougher Sanctions Moscow. But it hasn’t imposed Any. Not yet yet.

Will It?

Is the Trump Administration Prepared to Pressure Moscow Into Ending The War? And Would The Kremlin Allow Itself To Be Pressured Into Doing So?

It’s a key question as Russia’s War on Ukraine Continues.