Trump: "I spoke to Putin, he will not attack NATO territories"

Trump excludes an attack by Moscow on the countries of the Atlantic Alliance. Vladimir Putin “it won’t attack the territory of Nato“, claims the American president speaking to the press in Oval Office.

Trump: “A good conversation with Putin, he won’t attack NATO”

“I had a good interview with him. He will not attack NATO territory”, explains Trump. The tycoon’s words come after today Kremlin he dismissed it as “alarmist” the news that appeared in the American press according to which the director of the CIA he traveled to Moscow this week for deter Russia from attacking NATO.

Russia, which since 2022 has been conducting amilitary offensive on a large scale against Ukraine, has always categorically denied any intention to attack i NATO countries. Yesterday, Trump said that the CIA director’s visit was not related to Russian threats against‘Atlantic Alliancewhile hinting at a connection with Ukraine.

Trump: “Russia performed quite well on Homuz”

Trump also believes that Russia has behaved quite well regarding the Strait of Hormuz. “I think Russia has behaved quite well regarding the Strait of Hormuz”, the words of the US president.

The economic squeeze against Iran

Trump is instead remained vague when asked about his campaign for strangle the Iranian economydeclining to say whether it planned to sanction Chinese banks or whether it had discussed the issue with foreign counterparts.

The US administration announced earlier this week theOperation Economic Outcastwhich threatens new e harsh sanctions against Iran’s trading partners if they do not interrupt relations with Tehran. However, the administration has not yet taken any new measures and has so far not included any major Chinese financial institutions – Iran’s main trading partner – in the list of institutions subject to US sanctions.

Possible sanctions on Chinese banks

Trump was annoyed when the press asked him in the Oval Office why he wasn’t applying new sanctions to Chinese banks who have commercial relations with Tehran. “Who said I won’t? You can’t know that,” he said.

“I don’t have to announce everything, right?”. Later, when asked which world leaders he had heard about the economic pressure campaign against Tehran, Trump implied that it was not on the agenda, despite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent saying on Monday that the US president was calling foreign counterparts “with specific requests to sever their dealings with the regime”. “There’s not much to talk about. We don’t want to talk to them“Trump said today, “we’re not looking for meetings or anything.”

Trump ‘rewrites’ geography and aims for an ocean

Against the backdrop of the diplomatic clash with Canada, Donald Trump then signed a presidential decree which immediately changes the name of Lake Ontariolocated on the US-Canada border, in “Lago America“. “We have a gulf and we have a lake. All we’re missing is an ocean“, commented the US president, who had already ordered the change of name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America“.

The CIA chief’s trip to Moscow

In a previous interview with Axios, the US president returned to the trip to Moscow of the head of the CIA, Ratcliffe reiterating that the trip was “a normal work commitment” and saying he was perplexed about the media hype surrounding the mission. “Ratcliffe meets his Russian counterpart once every six months or once a year. They have a great relationship. There was no message and there was nothing unusual.” Naryshkin, director of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, confirmed that he had met Ratcliffe during his visit to Moscow and characterized the talks as “a normal part of their job“.