Diplomacy experts terrified of what Donald Trump will 'accidentally' give away to Putin

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TANA GANEVA at Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/06/diplomacy-experts-terrified-donald-trump-will-accidentally-give-away-putin/

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A report in Newsweek drawing on diplomacy experts who have long observed or dealt with Putin suggests that although he paints himself as a great deal-maker, Donald Trump might be out-performed by Vladimir Putin in the negotiations and end up giving away too much.

“Putin can be charming. I saw that at the Bush-Putin meeting in Slovenia in 2001. He is a master of detail, he is quick on his feet, he is articulate, he is very good at sizing up his interlocutor,” Ambassador Daniel Fried, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs in the George W. Bush administration, told Newsweek. “My guess is he is looking to get unearned gifts.”

Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, former ambassador to Russia and former deputy secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), told Newsweek that former President Barack Obama had been caught off guard by Putin’s diplomatic strategy when the two men first met face-to-face.

“Putin is extremely immersed in the details of policy; he is very cunning in how he approaches meetings with foreign leaders,” the ambassador told Newsweek. “Obama found this striking in their first meeting, that Putin gave lectures on the Russian version of history to make the other party feel guilty, that all of the problems [between Russia and the West] are about betraying Russia, taking advantage of Russia.”


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[exboyfil]

1. I wonder how many more of our intelligence assets

are going to accidentally fall out of windows after this summit.

[lagomorph777]

2. I'm much more worried about what he'll sell.

Such as lists of our intelligence assets, and the nuclear codes.

[NewJeffCT]

3. Donald Trump was outperformed by Kim Jong Un

bigly.

And, Kim didn't have Trump by the short hairs like Putin does.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Skip Raw Story's clickbait and tendentious headlines and go right to the story, here:

http://www.newsweek.com/putin-donald-trump-art-deal-helsinki-summit-1000539

The word "terrified" does not appear anywhere in the Newsweek article. Raw Story has an annoying tendency to produce headlines that make the stories they refer to look much more dramatic than they actually are. Of course there's reason for concern any time Trump is allowed to leave the country, but how about an accurate description of diplomats' concerns instead of overheated adjectives?

[duforsure]

5. It won't be accidentally...

He'll give anything he wants away of this country's, so he can get some credit from his debts, or more sweetheart development deals using our country. Remember trumps been selling condo's and washing money for years , he'll do the same here only use our country's national security to do it with.

[HeiressofBickworth]

6. Primary purpose of meeting:

It's always more polite to say thank you in person.

[peekaloo]

7. Last paragraph is quite telling.

sounds familiar.......it'll be interesting to see if Hair Furor's approach is that of a "real estate developer".