The Telegraph: Trump Acts Like He Is A Russian Agent
7- 24.11.2025, 12:28
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The new "peace" plan is also an immediate crisis for Britain.
We're back where we feared we'd be when Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election. Any perceived impartiality is gone. All the talk of "very serious consequences" if Russian leader Vladimir Putin did not agree to a truce at the Alaska summit turned out to be nonsense, accounts Daniel Hannan, a British politician, journalist and writer.
The author adds that he does not believe the claim that Putin has dirt on Trump; but the tragic truth is that, regardless of having dirt, Trump is behaving exactly as he would if he were a Russian agent.
"This is not just a tragedy for Ukraine, which has already endured too much over the past century. It is also an immediate crisis for Britain, which finds itself cut off from the country that has been its most powerful ally since 1941," Hannan writes.
Was it a coincidence that just as the terms of the 28-point "peace" agreement were emerging, a Russian spy ship in British waters was pointing military lasers at our pilots? "Possibly, yes. Perhaps Defense Secretary John Healey was hyping the incident to emphasize his leadership qualities. But I don't think so. It is more likely that Putin was bragging and mocking: bragging about his victory in Ukraine and mocking the country he hates more than any other," the journalist adds.
In Hannan's opinion, to understand Putin's real, hidden thoughts, it is worth listening to his henchman Dmitri Medvedev. Medvedev, voicing what is usually spoken in whispers, calls Britain "Moscow's eternal enemy."
Where does this hatred come from? Some say Putin resents the way British intelligence services have dealt with his allies in Syria; others believe his resentment has older roots, going back to the time when he was a KGB agent in East Germany and came under the scrutiny of MI6.
It may have something to do with the fact that London was a favorite exile destination for anti-Putin émigrés who sought safety in one of the few places where neither police chiefs nor judges could be bribed.
"Whatever the explanation, the peace plan for Ukraine is almost as serious a defeat for Britain as it is for Ukraine. Since 1956 we have consulted the United States before any serious military deployment. Our relationship is not as one-sided as critics try to portray it: the UK has benefited enormously from the US's willingness to share its intelligence and nuclear technology, something it does not do with any other country. Now, suddenly, this alliance looks unsustainable and accidental," the politician argues.