Washington – After designed for decades as a merchant, President Trump is showing some receipts in his second term and peace agreements negotiated with his surveillance. But the president faces extraordinary challenges in his last impulse to negotiate ends for the two bloodiest conflicts in the world.
The bets could not be higher in Ukraine, where almost one million Russian soldiers have been killed or injured in the search for the war of conquest of Vladimir Putin, according to Independent analysts. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers add to the catastrophic toll of victims. Trump's struggle for bringing both parties to a negotiating table, much less to ensure a high fire, has become a fixation for Trump, which caused Rare Putin repressions of the president of the United States.
And in the Gaza Strip, an alliance that has resisted the international criticisms on Israel's behavior of his war against Hamas has begun to show tension. Trump still supports the fundamental mission of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, to destroy the militant group and ensure the release of Israeli hostages in his possession. But growing evidence of Mass hunger in gaza It has begun to get rid of the relationship, according to reports, what has resulted in a shout match In your most recent call.
The advances in the two conflicts have evaded Trump, despite their efforts for modern in the “boss peacemaker” and floating your own nomination For the Nobel Peace Prize.
In Turnberry, Scotland, last month, Trump said that six wars had been arrested or frustrated under their vigilance since he returned to office in January. “I'm averaging a war a month,” he said at that time.
In fact, he has assured a series of tangible successes on the international stage, supervising a peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda; Organize a peace ceremony between Armenia and Azerbeijan; Registering a high fire between Cambodia and Thailand, and imposing an end of a 12 -day war between Israel and Iran after involving US forces directly in the conflict.
Olivier Nduhungartehe, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Rwanda, on the left, American vice president JD Vance, President Trump, Secretary of State Framework Rubio and Eastern Volatile Eastern Region.
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“As president, my highest aspiration is to bring peace and stability to the world,” Trump said at the ceremony with Armenian and Azerbaiyan leaders on Friday.
“We have only been here for six months. The world was on fire. We took care of almost all fires, and we are working on another,” he said, “with Russia, Ukraine.”
Trump is also attributed by reducing tensions between Serbia and Kosovo, and by negotiating a high fire between two nuclear states, India and Pakistan, a claim that the latter supports but the first denies.
“Wars generally last five to 10 years,” said Michael E. O'Hanlon, president of defense and strategy of the Brookings institution. “Trump is tactically intelligent, but it's not a magician. If he really has three of these five conflicts to finish, it is an incredible history.
“In each case, you can exaggerate your own role,” O'Hanlon said, but “it's fine, I appreciate the effort and contribution, even if others also deserve credit.”
One by one with Putin
Beyond his campaign promise to end the Russian War with Ukraine “Within 24 hours“When assuming the position, Trump has tried to press both parties to come to the negotiating table, starting with the Ukrainians.” You don't have the cards, “Trump told Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky in a Infamous Oval Office Meeting In February, punish him to prepare to make painful concessions to end the war.
But in June, at a NATO summit in the Netherlands, Trump's genius with Putin He underwent a change. He began to criticize the leader of Russia as responsible for the ongoing conflict, accusing Putin of throwing “meaningless bull …“In him and his team.
“I am not happy with Putin, I can tell you a lot at this time,” Trump said, approving new weapons for Ukraine, a remarkable policy change for a long time defended by Europeans.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the King of Malaysia, Sultan Ibrahim walk during a welcome ceremony at the Great Kremlin Palace on Wednesday in Moscow. The King of Malaysia, Sultan Ibrahim, is on an official visit to Russia.
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The Trump administration established Friday as a deadline for Putin to demonstrate its commitment to a high fire, or in front of a new round of overwhelming secondary sanctions, financial tools that would punish Russia's business partners for continuing business with Moscow.
These plans were suspended after Trump announced that he would meet with Putin in Alaska next week, a high -risk meeting that will exclude Zelensky.
“The highly anticipated meeting between me, as president of the United States of America, and President Vladimir Putin, from Russia, will take place next Friday, August 15, 2025 in the great state of Alaska. More details to follow,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Friday. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Gathering Putin one by one, the first meeting between an American and Russian president in four years, and the first between Putin and any western leader since he launched a large -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, in itself it could be seen as a reward for a Russian leader who sought to recover international legitimacy, experts said.
In this archive photo of June 28, 2019, President Trump, right, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a bilateral meeting outside the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan.
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Worse, Putin, a former KGB officer, could address the meeting as an opportunity to manipulate the US president.
“Putin has refused to abandon its final objectives in Ukraine: it is determined to supplant the Zelensky government in kyiv with a pro-ruso regime,” said Kyle Balzer, a scholar of the conservative American Institute Enterprise. “Ironclad wants that Ukraine will never be admitted to NATO. Therefore, there is currently no agreement with Russia, except agree to surrender to Putin's demands. Neither Ukraine nor Europe are interested in doing so.
“In a nutshell, Putin probably believes that the current administration can wear down,” Balzer added. “Threatening Russia with punitive acts such as sanctions, and then going back when the time comes to do it, has only emboldened Putin to fight for the highest victory in Ukraine.”
A European official told the Times that, although the United States government had pressed that Zelensky joined the initial meeting, a kyiv response, pointing out that any territorial concession to Russia in the negotiations would have to be approved in a voting referendum by the Ukrainian people, the initial plan sank.
The Trump administration is prepared to support most of the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian territory, including the eastern region of Donbas and the Crimean Peninsula, at the next summit, Bloomberg reported. On Friday, Trump described the issue of the “complicated” territory.
“We are going to recover something,” he said. “There will be some exchange of territories.”
Michael Williams, a professor of international relations at the University of Syracuse, said Trump has advocated a fire in Ukraine “at the expense of other strategic priorities, such as stability in Europe and Russia's punishment through greater help to Ukraine.”
Such a approach, said Williams, “might force Kremlin to end the war, and further, would indicate other potential aggressors, such as China, that the violations of international law will find a painful response.”
Loop
At Friday's peace ceremony, Trump told journalists that he was considering a proposal to relocate Palestinian refugees to Somalia and his separatist region, Somaliland, once Israel ends hostilities against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“We are working on that right now,” Trump said.
It was only Trump's last instance floating the resettlement of the Palestinians displaced during the two -year war there, which has destroyed more than 90% of the structures throughout the strip and essentially displaced its entire population of 2 million people. The Hamas Ministry of Health informs that more than 60,000 civilians and militants have died in the conflict.
Hamas, recognized as a terrorist organization for the United States, the European Union and others, has refused to admit war, stating that it would be disarmed only once a Palestinian State is established. The group continues to have approximately 50 Israeli hostages, some dead and others alive, among 251 taken during their attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which also killed about 1,200 people.
The protesters meet in a demonstration organized by the families of the Israeli hostages taken captive in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 asking for actions to ensure their release outside the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
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The Israel Cabinet voted this week to approve a plan to take care of the city of Gaza in the north of the strip and, finally, the rest of the territory, a deeply unpopular strategy in the Israeli army and between the Israeli public. Netanyahu rejected on Friday the notion that Israel planned to occupy Gaza permanently.
Despite applying private pressure on Netanyahu, Trump's strategy has greatly fallen with that of his predecessor, Joe Biden, whose team supported Israel's right to defend himself while working towards a peace agreement that, in essence, would change to the remaining hostages for a cessation of hostilities.
The conversations have stagnated, said an American official, mainly blaming Hamas for his demands.
“In Gazza, there is a fundamental structural imbalance of dealing with a terrorist organization that can be immune to the traditional forms of pressure (military, economic or other Trump really only has leverage about a party, his ally, Israel, who has been reluctant to exercise, reasonably.
Also in Ukraine, Trump has influence that has not been arranged, so far, to carry.
“There, Trump has leverage on both parties, but it seems reluctant to exercise it on one of them, Russia,” said Satloff.
But Trump suggested on Friday that he threatened the sanctions to India for the purchase of Russian oil, and his agreement with the organization of the North Atlantic Treaty to ensure a greater security expense of European members, “had an impact” on the Moscow negotiation position.
“I think my instinct really tells me that we have a chance,” Trump said. “I think we are approaching a lot.”
