Why does Trump hold back on punishing Russia and Putin?
US President Donald Trump waved with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15, 2025 after a joint news conference in Alaska, Anchorage, after a joint news conference.
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US President Donald Trump repeatedly said that if Moscow does not come to the table and does not accept peace talks or a ceasefire with Ukraine, Russia and President Vladimir Putin will punish many times.
Russia showed no signs of intention to maintain and increase its attacks on Ukraine because it appeared to reinforce the earnings on the battlefield.
And still, Trump continues to launch a major extra sanction and economic punishment that can harm a weakened Russia.
According to analysts who have warned that it has been going on for a longer time, the reason for stopping is strategic and goes beyond Russia and weakens itself and the US position more.
“The Russian budget is actually under very pressure … So Moscow-based Macro-Advisory General Manager Chris Weafe, CNBC said in a statement on Monday,” So if there were more important sanctions from the United States to target Russian oil trade.
Bakında There were two important factors behind Trump’s silence, Di Weafer said: The president’s desire to be seen as a means of peace and worried about pushing Russia to China’s orbit more deeply.
“Trump can still bring both sides to the table, organize a peace agreement and take a loan to move the conflict towards peace, and that the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize will come at the beginning of October, because we know the character of the individual.” He said.
“The second reason … If Russia is defeated, if Russia is completely isolated by the West and there is no way to interact with the US and Europe, then there is no choice but to go further with China, and this will potentially strengthen China’s position.”
Bringing together Russia and Beijing will mean that the latter has “almost unlimited” access to energy sources, industrial materials and the North Pole.
It would also allow more opportunities to access to Russian military technology like China’s secret submarines and more opportunities in space research.
Weaker, Weaker officials, “Russia does not want China to be a more official subsidiary. They want to participate in the West more.
CNBC contacted the White House to make more comments about his strategy for Moscow, and is waiting for a response.
China-Russia-India ties deepening
Beijing and Moscow leaders showed Bonhomie on Monday at the 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit. SCO participates in 20 foreign leaders, including Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Against a war of war in Ukraine, Trump’s tariffs and ongoing oil trade, the major economies of China, Russia and India deepened their economic and political ties with the West.
Chinese President On Monday, Xi Jinping called on its leaders to strengthen cooperation and called on to reject what it called “Cold War Mental”.
Meanwhile, Putin said that his meeting with Trump in August in August had paved the way to find a way to solve the Ukraine “crisis” because he described the war for more than three years. Nevertheless, Russia thanked the Asian allies for their support during the war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (Front L) speaks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tianjin on 1 September 2025.
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“We value the efforts and propositions of our China, India and other strategic partners to solve the Ukrainian crisis. The mutual understanding reached in the same direction at a new Russian-US summit in Alaska.
Putin said that peaks such as SCO have created a new political and socio-economic ecosystem that can replace the “outdated” EURATIC CENSE power model.
This new system “would take into account the interests of the countries and really balance,” means “a system that can not provide the security of the country at the expense of others”.
