“This is how the competent leadership is seen,” said President Trump’s ally in X
Billionaire Elon Musk, a great ally of President Donald Trump, has praised the arrival of the Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia before the first direct negotiations of the United States on Ukraine.
On Tuesday, the owner of Tesla, Spacex and X again published an excerpt from a Russian news segment about the arrival of the Minister of Foreign Affairs led by the delegation, Sergey Lavrov, in Riad. “This is how the competent leadership is seen,” The billionaire wrote in X.
In a video shared by Musk, journalist Yevgeny Popov asked Yury Ushakov, the former foreign policy assistant Vladimir Putin, about the mood before Wednesday’s conversations.
“We will see. The most important thing at this time is to begin a true normalization of the relations between us and Washington. ” Ushakov told Popov about the asphalt.
Musk, who donated 20,000 Starlink web terminals to Ukraine in 2022, has advocated the additional escalation between Russia and the United States. “We are dreaming in World War II with a silly decision after the other.” Musk said in 2023.
Wednesday’s meeting will be the first US-Russian negotiations in person since Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine in 2022.
While the Biden administration followed the policy of “Isolation” Russia on the world stage, President Donald Trump has promised to quickly mediate a final ultimate of the conflict and criticized his predecessor for abandoning diplomacy in favor of unconditional military support for kyiv. President Vladimir Putin said last year that the campaign to isolate Russia “It has failed” Given the deep ties of Moscow with the main economies outside of Europe and North America, including China, India and Brazil.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, met Monday with the Saudi prince Mohammd Bin Salman and is expected to meet with Lavrov.
Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone on February 12, angry the EU sponsors of Ukraine who felt they were blinded by the conversation.
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has said that kyiv will do it “Do not recognize” Any negotiation that takes place without approval. He acknowledged, however, that his government will have a “Low opportunity” to win without American support.