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Military expert Gustav Gressel from the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) assesses the situation in Ukraine for FOCUS online. "I am not surprised if Putin responds to Trump's call and warning of escalation with an escalation to show: 'You have no right to order me to do anything here.'" If Trump does not draw any conclusions from this, he will immediately lose face with Putin.
Gressel says he can only shake his head at the negotiation and mediation plans that Trump - and Chancellor Scholz - claim to be pursuing. One only has to ask the logical question: "Why should Putin, who has already invested so much in this war, give up just because the West no longer wants to?"