CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh: There Is Lingering Fear and Suspicion That the Trump Admin‘s Agenda Is Increasingly Closer To Moscow

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PATON  WALSH: “There‘s been another stretch of optimism here, but above it all, I think there is this lingering fear and suspicion that the Trump Administration‘s agenda is increasingly closer to Moscow than, of course, it was when the Biden Administration were the main key military and financial backer for Ukraine here. A lot of disappointment about the revisionism that we‘ve been hearing, that initially sparked President Zelenskyy‘s comment that began the spat between him and Trump over a week ago now, where he said that Trump was living in a disinformation circle — sorry, that was Wednesday when that comment was made. That then sparked Trump to call him a dictator. But it was that notion that Ukraine started the war that somehow that began Zelenskyy‘s comments and, of course, is really at the heart of this U.S. resolution refusing to say Russia began this. And that‘s, I think, for many people, a concern because that revisionism plays into Russia‘s narrative. There are some advocates of the Trump Administration who suggest if you want to make a deal with people, you can‘t spend the whole time being antagonistic towards them, and others who say, 'We tried a reset with Russian relations at the beginning of the Obama Administration. It didn‘t work. They only really understand strength.' So, many differing opinions about what will work and what may work. Certainly, the war has got increasingly complex and difficult for Ukraine. Will fresh thinking change that? We simply don‘t know. What we do know is that Trump himself has, it seems, after the visit from Macron, not entirely flipped.”