"Trump Needs To Realize That Putin Is A Psychopath."
27- 30.08.2025, 22:12
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The US President does not understand the root cause of Russia's war against Ukraine.
The editor-in-chief of Charter97.org Natalya Radina said this in interview with well-known journalist Evgeny Kiselev:
- Recently, Donald Trump said that the reason for the war is a personality conflict between Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky. Trump doesn't realize that imperial Russia continues to seize territory. He doesn't understand what is happening to Belarus, which is effectively occupied and invaded by Russia because of its support of the pro-Russian Lukashenko dictatorship for over 30 years. And when this is the level of understanding of the problems (rather misunderstanding) - it is hard to imagine that Trump is ready today to fight both Russian and Belarusian dictatorship in any serious way.
But we know there is an imperial war going on. And whoever is in charge of Ukraine, if it were someone as principled as Vladimir Zelensky, he would elicit exactly the same reaction from Putin. I think it's important to understand one more thing about Putin - he is a psychopath.
Talking to him, trying to give him some arguments, telling him that "this war is not beneficial for you", that "it's time to stop, because Russia today has huge problems related to the economy", is useless. We see that there are already problems with personnel - there are not enough servicemen in the Russian army, and fewer and fewer people want to fight against Ukraine on a voluntary basis. There is a colossal shortage of personnel. Not only at military enterprises, but also at civilian enterprises. There is still damage from these sanctions imposed from the West, which we scold, but in fact they are working. They are still causing damage. There is also a huge reduction in energy revenues. In addition, we see that Ukraine has been very successful with oil pipelines and refineries, there has been a fuel shortage in Russia itself.
And in this situation, Putin is still continuing the war. He is a psychopath who does not look at the damage to Russia. He needs to seize new lands, to establish control over the territories of our countries. August 12 was the 25th anniversary of the sinking of the Kursk submarine. And they showed this footage again, when Putin said about the submarine: "It sank". Do you remember this footage? He's smiling. Moreover, on the day of this tragedy, Putin went on vacation to Sochi. They did not provide any help, did not rescue these people, although they could have, and many countries offered Russia help in rescuing the sailors.
I once again, seeing these images that were flashed in the media and social networks these days, seeing this face, I just realized, he is a psychopath.
What do we want from him? Peace can only come in one case: when Russia is defeated in this war. There is no other way. No peace agreements with today's Russia and Putin will work.