As the US elections approached, the attention of the world community is drawn to the positions of the main contenders for the presidential position, including Donald Trump.
The New York Times, the Foreign Policy Experts from the Republican Party - Robert O'braen, who held the post of Trump Advisor on National Security, and Elbidge Kolby, former Deputy Defense Minister for Trump.
Colby stated that Trump opposes "Foreign Political Arrogance after the Cold War." He is ready to "take into account his rivals and be prepared to negotiate with them."
The current white house in Ukraine is associated with the absence of "flexibility and pragmatism" inherent in Trump.
Colby stated that in his opinion, the administration of Trump should not be accepted in NATO. Also with Russia "should be a plausible arrangement that will avoid war" with the West in general.
O'braian says that Trump will also pursue unpredictability when the Russians "do not know what we will do, but will talk to the Russians at the same time and will be hearty with them."
“This is what people do not understand. President Trump was very hearty with Vladimir Putin. He was hearty with Xi Jinping. But he used this cordiality to tell them very rigid, hard things, ”the expert said.
He calls sanctions as a key lever on Russia's pressure on Russia.
"I would impose large -scale sanctions - not symbolic sanctions - would impose full sanctions on the central bank of the Russian Federation, would impose secondary sanctions on Chinese companies that conduct business with Russia, would reduce the profit that Putin and the oligarchs receive. This can lead them to the fact that they will sit at the negotiation table with the Ukrainians in the spirit of goodwill. This is one of the approaches, ”he said.
The expert believes that Trump will not go to the military escalation, but he can "go to economic escalation and stimulate them to reach the decision."
Colby also believes that there will be no military decision on Ukraine in the United States, because "Ukrainians face very serious problems with labor, lack of ammunition, which has nothing to do with the willpower, but is related to the production capacity of the Western world."
"In the end, you will probably lay a truce somewhere along the line of collision, on the front line, because this is how the wars like this to this end," Kolby added.
At Branny, he believes that it is necessary to translate the burden of further weapons of Kiev to Europeans:
“Germany alone has a larger economy than Russia. Germany could, in fact, decide the Russian threat with the use of ordinary weapons. In 1988, Western Germany could put 12 existing divisions on the battlefield, ”he added.
