Former EU military staff: Trump achieved little with Putin

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Trump failed to make meaningful progress with Putin, as no concessions were made by the latter, the former director general of European Union military staff Lieutenant General David Leakey says.   #Trump #Putin

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00:00So do you think President Trump should have and could have tried to extract more concessions

00:06from President Putin than he managed to do when they spoke on Tuesday night?

00:10I think we need to be cautious about criticising the individual day-to-day tactics on how to

00:18conduct the negotiation and whether and when to extract more concessions or conditions

00:23from either side because these things don't happen quickly and armchair critics like me

00:29or you or others sitting listening to the radio or the television won't know what's

00:35going on in the backroom deals and there'll certainly be more discussions going on between

00:41officials, between ambassadors, may even be between the military as well.

00:47So I think we should be cautious about criticising President Trump for insisting on more conditions.

00:57What I think we can say is that I don't think Trump made anything like as much progress

01:03as he hoped to make during that telephone call and I think what we can also say is that

01:08Putin gave absolutely no concessions at all and is still holding all his cards having

01:15not declared any on the table.

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