{"id":3386,"date":"2025-02-25T01:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2025-02-25T02:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T02:19:01","slug":"trump-says-putin-treated-him-with-great-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/trump-says-putin-treated-him-with-great-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Putin treated him with \u2018great respect\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Russian president believes his US counterpart is in a \u201cunique position\u201d to act openly and directly<\/strong><\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump has stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin treated him with \u201cgreat respect\u201d<\/em> and expressed a clear desire to end the ongoing conflict in Ukraine while also reaching a deal to normalize trade and other relations between Washington and Moscow.<\/p>\n

Contacts between the two nations, largely nonexistent for years, intensified after Trump was inaugurated on January 20. A phone call between Trump and Putin on February 12 was followed by high-level Russia-US talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last week. Putin described the discussions as \u201cthe first step\u201d<\/em> toward normalizing relations, a view Trump echoed on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore I came here, there was no communication with Russia whatsoever… But when I got here, one of the first calls I made was to President Putin, and we were treated with great respect. They want to end this war, so that\u2019s a big thing,\u201d<\/em> Trump said at a press conference following his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n

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Russia ready to work with US on \u2018rare earths\u2019 \u2013 Putin<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s very much to Russia\u2019s benefit to make a deal and to go on with leading Russia in a very positive way,\u201d<\/em> the US leader added. \u201cI mean, that\u2019s what I do. I do deals. My whole life is deals\u2026 And I know when somebody wants to make it and when somebody doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump later reinforced his position in a post on Truth Social: \u201cI am in serious discussions with President Vladimir Putin of Russia concerning the ending of the war, and also major economic development transactions that will take place between the United States and Russia. Talks are proceeding very well!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

When asked to comment on Trump\u2019s claim of \u201cmajor transactions\u201d<\/em> between Russia and the US, Putin told Russia 1 TV journalist Pavel Zarubin on Monday that discussions were indeed taking place.<\/p>\n

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Russia ready to cooperate with the US \u2013 Moscow\u2019s economic envoy<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYes, some of our companies are in contact with each other and are discussing such projects,\u201d<\/em> the Russian leader said without elaborating. Putin added that Moscow is prepared to work with Washington in developing rare earth mineral deposits, including those in the Donetsk and Lugansk People\u2019s Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. At the same time, he noted that the rare earth deal Trump\u2019s administration is negotiating with Kiev \u201cdoesn\u2019t concern\u201d<\/em> Moscow, as the actual value of Ukraine\u2019s mineral deposits remains uncertain.<\/p>\n

The Russian president said his direct communications with Trump, along with the meeting in Riyadh, have so far been focused on \u201cincreasing the level of trust\u201d<\/em> between the two countries. According to Putin, Trump \u201cacts straightforwardly and without any particular embarrassment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHe is in a unique position: he doesn\u2019t just say what he thinks, he says what he wants. That\u2019s the privilege of being the leader of one of the big, great powers,\u201d<\/em> Putin added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Russian president believes his US counterpart is in a \u201cunique position\u201d to act openly and directly US President Donald Trump has stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin treated him with \u201cgreat respect\u201d and expressed a clear desire to end the ongoing conflict in Ukraine while also reaching a deal to normalize trade and other…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}