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CONFIRMED: Trump sees world as balance of power–not ideological struggle

Donald Trump has given his interview about his meeting with Vladimir Putin. Trump explained that both leaders are similar in that they put the interests of their respective countries above that of all others. Trump said that in spite of this leading to some disagreements, that his good personal feel about Putin means that two nuclear superpowers should cooperate whenever possible and have good relations in spite of any disagreements.

This classic pragmatic attitude to world affairs which sees the world in terms of national interests and spheres of influence rather than a radical struggle of ideology conforms with much of what was published in The Duran prior to the meeting.

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It was also important that Trump had this first post-Putin interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN). Increasingly many Christians in the US see attacks on Russia as attacks on a Christian nation. It seems this concept was not lost on Donald Trump. In many ways, the interview was Donald Trump’s domestic victory lap after a meeting that in many ways did more to reassure Trump’s base than it did to altar geo-political realities, certainly in the short term.

The following is Trump’s statements on the meeting:

“Well, he wants what’s good for Russia, and I want what’s good for the United States. And I think in a case like Syria where we can get together, do a ceasefire, and there are many other cases where getting along can be a very positive thing, but always Putin is going to want Russia and Trump is going to want the United States and that’s the way it is.


I think we had an excellent meeting. One thing we did is we had a ceasefire in a major part of Syria where there was tremendous bedlam and tremendous killing. And, by the way, this is now four days. The ceasefire has held for four days. Those (previous) ceasefires haven’t held at all. That’s because President Putin and President Trump made the deal, and it’s held. Now, I don’t know what’s going to happen. Maybe as we’re speaking they start shooting again. But this has held unlike all of the other ceasefires that didn’t mean anything


Trump’s commitment to peace, dialogue, cooperation when possible and respect when not, is very refreshing, especially when compared with many in his party such as Nikki Haley who recently said that Russians can never be trusted.

Trump went on to state that based on his balance of power theory, Putin who is a strong advocate for Russian strength would have preferred Hillary Clinton as POTUS as in Trump’s view she would have been weaker than Trump.

The President of the US explained it in the following way,




Trump’s statements make it clear that ending the tense period of US relations with Russia which became deeply worrying under Barack Obama is a priority born of pragmatism and a respect for the patriotism of Russia’s President.

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