Trump-Putin relationship takes spotlight at summit

Donald Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska may be a decisive moment for both the war in Ukraine and the abnormal relationship of the US leader with the Russian counterpart.

Trump has long praised that he has been well dealt with Putin and talked to him with admiration, and even praised him as “quite smart” to invade Ukraine. However, in recent months, he expressed his frustrations about Putin and threatened with more sanctions in his country.

At the same time, Trump presented contradictory messages about his expectations for the summit on Friday. He called Putin’s “really a feeling of emotion” to measure Putin’s ceasefire, but he warned “very violent results” if he refused to end the Putin war.

The meeting for Putin is the chance to repair his relationship with Trump and to isolate his country after the West occupation of Ukraine. It was clear about Trump’s desire to rebuild the US-Russian relations because he returned to the White House.

The White House rejected any proposal that Trump’s admission to sit with Putin was a gain for the Russian leader. However, the critics argue that the meeting gives Putin the opportunity to enter Trump’s ear at the loss of Ukraine, the leader of which was removed from the summit.

Take a look at the ups and downs of Trump and Putin’s relationship:

* During the 2016 campaign, Russia Questions

Months before the first president was elected, the Russian Government’s rival Hillary Clinton, including the rival Hillary Clinton, has stolen e -mails and damaging the campaign and releasing Trumps to release them to release them.

In a 2016 view, Russian hackers shocked to find the e -mails that Clinton deleted.

“Russia, if you’re listening,” Trump said, “I hope you can find 30,000 e -mail that is missing.”

The questions about their connections with Russia shaken most of their first period, touched upon investigations by the Ministry of Justice and the Congress, and led to the appointment of a special advisor Robert Mueller, who provided more than one conviction against Trump and allies, but did not constitute the evidence of a penalty conspiracy between the Moscow and Trump campaign.

These days, Trump describes the Russian investigation as an intimacy shared by himself and Putin.

Put Putin has happened with me a lot, Tr Trump said at the beginning of 2025 what he calls “Phoney Witch Hunting”.

In 2019, Putin mocked the findings of the investigation by saying, “A mountain gave birth to a mouse.”

* ‘He said it wasn’t just Russia’

Trump met with an American enemy about whether Trump was involved in Russia’s 2016 elections and met Putin six times, including the 2018 summit in Helsinki, stunning the world.

“I trust my intelligence, but I will tell you that President Putin is extremely powerful and powerful today.” He said. “I just said that it’s not Russia. I will say that: I don’t see a reason why it is.”

Faced with intensive recoil, Trump tried to withdraw the comment a day later. However, he blurred this return by saying that other countries could intervene.

Putin referred to the Helsinki Summit as the “beginning of the road” as the Western efforts to isolate Russia. He also made it clear that Trump wanted to win in 2016.

* Trump calls Ukraine called Putin ‘Pretty’ after invading Ukraine

The two leaders continued their friendship relations after leaving the White House in 2021.

After Putin occupied Ukraine in 2022, Trump positively described the Russian leader in a positive way.

“I mean, he takes over a country for sanctions worth two dollars. I can say it’s quite smart.” He said. He then suggested that Putin would go to Ukraine to “be a guard of peace”.

Trump said that if he was president, Ukraine’s invasion would never be realized – Putin’s allegation of Trump’s support for false election fraud claims.

Thanks to most of his campaign, Trump supported Ukraine and described the President of the Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a “seller” for persuading Washington to provide weapons and financing to his country.

* Review the relationship

After becoming president, Trump stopped claiming that he would solve the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. In March, when he said that, he said he was “a little cynical.”

Putin in the second period of Trump, while emphasizing the possibility of initiation of US-Russian economic projects, as well as other issues, climbed to a summit while trying to return from the Ukrainian conflict.

“Based on today’s realities, we better meet all the issues interested in both the US and Russia, and we should make a calm speech,” Putin said in January. He said.

In February, when Trump exploded with Zelenskiy in the White House, when he angered him “disrespectful”, things seemed favorable for Putin.

However, in April, as Russian strikes increased, Trump issued a public objection on social media: “Vladimir, stop!”

With the Russian leader, he began to express more disappointment by saying that he was just touched me “.

At the beginning of August, Trump ordered the reposition of two US nuclear submarines based on extremely provocative statements of the country’s former President Dmitry Medvedev.

Trump’s vocal protests about Putin have been angry since he announced his meetings, but he also has predictions because he could succeed.

On Monday, Trump described his summits on the occasion of “really a feeling meeting, a little”, not as the “settlement” of the conflict.

“I think it’s good, Tr Trump said. “But it may be bad.”