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Also ich glaube ja, #Trump kann in erster Linie *deshalb* so gut von #Putin am Ring durh die Manege gezogen werden, weil der ihn mit belastendem #Epstein-Material unter Druck setzt.
Oder was meint ihr?

My take: #Trump gets yanked by Putin like a bull on a nose ring — ‘cause Vladi is sitting on Epstein kompromat.“

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#Putin repeated the "same propagandistic clichés about the 'roots of the conflict' that his state television keeps repeating," #Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on the talks in #Alaska.

"The problem is Russian #imperialism, not #Ukraine’s desire to live in #freedom."

He added: "And let us not forget that hidden in those very words is also Putin’s ambition to return to the security architecture of 1997 – to the time when Czechia was not yet part of #NATO."

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Oleksandr Merezhko, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the #Ukraine Parliament, said this lifted #Putin out of his diplomatic isolation. “He won the informational war,” he said, noting that Putin appeared as an equal to #Trump. “He used Trump to show that he is not isolated.”

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Andrei Gurulyov, a retired general & now member of #Russia’s parliament, crowed that Putin’s remarks at the press conference showed that the Kremlin’s position was “unwavering.” If there was a breakthrough, he wrote on his Telegram channel, it was that #Putin could explain directly to #Trump the reasons for the #war.

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Oof. Just turned on #FauxNews (aka #FoxNews), they’re claiming #Trump made “some progress” & this was all about getting another meeting. What a load!

If that’s as well as Fox can spin, you know the meeting was a total failure.

It is an understatement to say it’s highly unusual for Trump to hold a formal press conference & take no questions.

He was hoping to get a Nobel Peace Prize out of this. Idiot.