Carl Bildt.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Sweden’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister Carl Bildt said last autumn that it will be some time before there are peace talks regarding the war in Ukraine.
– We are far from any of these yet. There is no appetite in the Kremlin – Putin probably hopes there that he can hold out until there is a possibility that Trump will directly or indirectly cut US aid to Ukraine, said Bildt.
But Bildt does not mince words about how he thinks things are going for Russia in the war against Ukraine.
“It has been a miserable year for the Russian army on the battlefield in Ukraine. In principle, you have achieved nothing and suffered heavy losses”writes Bildt on X.
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Bildt: Putin has changed significantly
Vladimir Putin has changed “tangibly and radically” during his years in the Kremlin, according to Carl Bildt.
– I saw a big change in connection with his return to his third term in 2012, Bildt has said and continued:
– Then so-called colored revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine and other places in conjunction with large demonstrations in Moscow had created a new situation. It was also when he started trying to recreate some kind of Great Russian empire, which of course led to the crisis with Ukraine in 2013-2014.
If Donald Trump makes a comeback in the White House this fall, it could have major consequences for the war in Ukraine, according to Bildt. He believes that Donald Trump “is a greater danger than Putin” when it comes to the risk of military aid to Ukraine being reduced.
– Trump has shown in the past that he easily buys what Putin says, and that he is hardly a friend of Ukraine, Bildt has said.
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