Mr. Trump’s negotiation art in Ukraine conflict

In addition to famous roles such as the US President, real estate tycoon, reality TV star, Donald Trump was also the author of the best -selling book.

Trump: The Art of The Deal (Trump: negotiating art), first published in 1987 was on the best -selling list of NY Times for nearly a year. It was Mr. Trump’s memoirs and business notebooks, helping readers better understand his personality and how he reached the agreements.

“My negotiation style is quite simple and easy to understand. I set a very high goal and then constantly pushed to achieve it,” Trump wrote in the book.

When it comes to defeating competitors in business, Mr. Trump wrote that “sometimes part of the attempt to reach an agreement is to lower the opponent.”

Jonathan ester, high -class analyst of The Conversationpointing out this is the strategy Mr. Trump used to respond to competitors right from the campaign, when he repeatedly criticized and lowered the reputation of former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris. The ester thinks that the White House owner is also applying this method when seeking to end the Ukrainian conflict, only he does it with the same ally.

Mr. Trump has harshly criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the speeches before the press or on social networks. He blamed Ukraine starting the battle, calling Mr. Zelensky “the dictator was not elected”, “the comedian was not very successful” or “the person who did a bad job, caused the country to be devastated and the goods. Million people die in vain “.

This is the first time a US president said that Ukraine was the beginning of the conflict. Biden for nearly three years has continuously accused Russia as a battle side and asserted that Ukraine has the right to defend. Mr. Trump said that everything was different if he was the US President in 2022.

“I should have made an agreement to help Ukraine keep the entire land and no one was killed, no city was destroyed, no project collapsed. But they chose not to follow it That way, “he said.

Stephen Hall, a Russian political expert at Bath University in the UK, recalled the first negotiations on Ukrainian conflict in Istanbul, Türkiye after the war broke out. He said that the idea of ​​Ukraine should agree to the peace agreement in 3-4/2022 is unreasonable.

“If Ukraine agreed an agreement based on the negotiation in Istanbul, it was likely that the country would become like a Russian province, led by a Moscow’s government and banned Kiev to join alliance. With the West, “Hall said.

At that time, the European allies of Ukraine and the government of former President Joe Biden did not support the idea of ​​soothing Russia by making such concessions. But now, under the administration of President Trump, everything may change. Observers are concerned that Ukraine may have to accept significant concessions to end the conflict with Russia.

“We finally won by making others tired. We never gave up, while the opponent gradually exhausted,” Mr. Trump once wrote in the book The Art of The Deal.

However, there is also a different view of Mr. Trump’s moves. Comments of CNN Assuming that Mr. Trump’s “change of mood” has not shown that the US will change the foreign policy comprehensively, away from long -term allies in Europe and towards the Kremlin.

Mr. Trump’s Republican allies in Washington said that the president could have a big plan. Senator Kevin Cramer said that Trump is creating favorable conditions for the Russian side to accept listening to his stance.

A loyal man recently talked to the president in Florida said Mr. Trump criticized Kiev to show harshness to warn Europe to spend more money to protect Ukraine.

In The Art of The DealMr. Trump talked about a man he hired as a real estate manager at Swifton Village apartment building in Cincinnati. Irving. Trump called him “a scam, one of the best lies I’ve ever met”.

When collecting rent, Irving flirted with a woman and swear in front of her daughter, making her tall, weighing over 100 kg in the office to confront Irving. Irving was crazy, proved dangerous and threatened to him: “I will kill you. I will ruin you. These hands are deadly weapons.” The husband left.

Mr. Trump learned the lesson from the story that he had to keep a strong position when negotiating. “You cannot be scared. You do your job, keep your stance, you stand uprightly arrogant,” he wrote.

The source recently met Mr. Trump that “shocking claims are essentially strategic and there is a way to respond to them,” the evidence that Danish has committed to increase spending on weapons.

A Mr. Trump’s adviser also agreed with this view when he said CNN: “If other European countries enthusiastically responded to half of Denmark, it would be a big victory.”

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejected most of the US President’s statements but said that Mr. Trump was promoting a bigger view.

“When will Europe stop being bewildered about Donald Trump and began to help him end this war?”, Johnson wrote. “Of course Ukraine is not the beginning of the war. Of course, a nation is in wartime should not hold elections. There is no general election in the UK from 1935 to 1945. Of course, the rate Supporting Zelensky is not 4%. In fact, his ratio is close to Mr. Trump. “

“Trump’s claims are not intended to be historically accurate but to shock Europeans so they act,” Johnson wrote.

Conferences were in a hurry arranged by European leaders in the past week, chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron, showing that Mr. Trump’s statements were being seen seriously.

Mr. Macron will come to Washington next week to meet with Mr. Trump. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will have the same move. Mr. Starmer wrote on February 16 Telegraph That he was willing to send the army to operate as a peacekeeping force in Ukraine.

The topic is repeated in The Art of The Deal is always open to the options. “I left a lot of options, because most of the agreements failed, regardless of how they seemed to promise. The way to implement that agreement, because anything can happen, even with the most carefully outlined plans, “Trump wrote.

In the book, Trump also said that he had little time to care about criticism and believing in his instincts. “I think that creating an agreement is a possibility that you were born with. It is in the gene. Not that I am showing great self -esteem. , this requires certain intelligence, but mostly instinctive, “he wrote.

About Ukraine, Mr. Trump is confident that he is a peacekeeper. “We are successfully negotiating with Russia to end the conflict, which everyone admits that only Trump can do,” the President said on February 19.

“The Trump administration will do that. I think Putin even admitted it,” he added.