Donald Trump loses patience with Russia, says the Finnish leader | Ukraine

Donald Trump loses patience with Vladimir Putin, said President of Finland after a long conversation with his American counterpart.

Alexander Stubb said, Trump and Putin, who are supposed to speak by phone on Monday, must not decide on the fate of Ukraine about the head of his President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Stubb also said that there is a chance, depending on how the call is going, that the US sensors Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal would introduce a sanction package to the Unscutation of Russia's finances into the congress this week. Stubb has near the daily contact with Graham, which describes the sanction package as a “bone statement”.

At a security conference in Estonia, Stubb said: “If we pulled them together, we could say that Zelenskyy is patient and President Trump begins impatiently, but in the right direction, ie in Russia.”

According to Stubb, the threatening sanctions and the non -introduction would not cause a problem of credibility as long as the West reacts Putin.

It is generally expected that Graham, who discussed its sanction package with European outdoor ministers last week, which will adapt provisions of the law so that it is aimed at foreign companies that import Russian energy. Graham, a Trump loyalist, portrays his sanctions as a supplement to Trump's tariff policy and not as an alternative.

The original package contained plans to impose 500% tariffs on the goods of an energy trade in a country with Russia.

Stubb said every European contact with Putin would come from the E3 leadership of Great Britain, France and Germany. “We shouldn't go alone on the top level,” he said.

Stubb, one of the small group of European leaders with Trump's ear, said that he had used his influence to convince the President to revise his view of the economic and military strength of Russia.

At Lennart Meri Security Conference in Tallinn, he announced that in his conversation with Trump on Saturday he had tried to explain that Russia was no longer a big power, “certainly not economical”.

He added: “It is smaller than Italy, slightly larger than Spain [in terms of its economy]. Three years ago, it wanted to refuse independent sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine three years ago. This year it has reached less than one percentage point, and its interest rate is over 20% and its reserves are over.

“So it is not a country that can be seen as great power. These are the kind of messages that you have to convey. It is not an easy game, but you just have to include the American administration.

“Trump's worldview is not far from what we saw in the 19th century powers-a great time that sometimes works out of competition and sometimes.

Matthew Whitaker, the US ambassador to NATO, told the conference that his country was Europe's friend, but warned of a smaller military presence in Europe. “President Trump just said: enough, that will happen and it will happen now,” he said.

“That will be decent, but in this situation we will no longer have a patience for foot medication. We only have to work through the practical consequences.”

The displacement of an announcement of the US troops until after a NATO summit in the next month will make the ability planning difficult.

Radosław Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister, was one of many European leaders who accepted that the construction of new defense spending between Europe and the USA was long overdue, and added that he was grateful to Trump. He remembered what the Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said about the Americans to Pearl Harbor: “We aroused a sleeping giant” – and said: “Putin also aroused the giant. He has no idea how expensive it will be. Since President Trump came to power, we have come to power, we have come to power since President Trump [Nato] Have already doubled our defense spending. We are at 2% [of GDP].

“At the next NATO summit 3.5 % for tough defense, the new goal and 1.5 % for civil and cyber defense will be. If we have done it, we will bring Russia to dwarfs. Without the United States, we will spend more than Russia more than Russia for a peace footgone than Russia for experiencing Russia.

Stubb added that in his conversations with the US administration no one had mentioned that the United States left NATO and that it was in the interests of the United States to have allies in alliance.

Alar Karis, the Estonian president, announced that he was sitting next to Trump for two hours at the Pope's funeral in Rome and was said: “Don't worry, you are safe.”

However, diplomats warned that the NATO summit could bring strong differences in opinion through the Russia strategy. The Europeans wanted to make it clear that Russia was a long -term threat, regardless of the settlement in Ukraine. It is not yet clear in which capacity Zelenskyy will take part in the summit. His presence is important for managers who do not want a peace settlement to exclude Ukrainian membership in NATO.