(9 Aug 2025)
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London – 9 August 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Gould-Davies, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies:
"What we’ve seen over the past 24 hours is an absolutely extraordinary development. There was this drumroll to the deadline, in fact, the shortened deadline that President Trump had clearly and publicly declared for Russia to agree a ceasefire. And as that deadline approached, his language became very specific, and really unprecedentedly threatening towards Russia. These things called secondary tariffs, sanctions, very deprecating remarks about the Russian economy."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Gould-Davies, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies:
"And what have we seen? An astonishing U-turn, it would seem. The most emphatic retreat from a Trumpian deadline. Rather than impose any of the pain, make good on any of his threats, he appears to have rewarded Putin in this extraordinary way by agreeing to a summit."
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Gould-Davies, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies:
"It would be very interesting to know who proposed Alaska. The symbology of it is clear and it’s easy to imagine Putin making the point, the argument, the framing point to Trump that, look, we once had this territory, and we gave it to therefore Ukraine had this territory and now should give it to us. So, tactically, the location of the summit would seem to be something that naturally favors Russia, as well as the form, as well as being bilateral."
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Gould-Davies, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies:
"It’s very strange and we’re all learning to try to form a kind of a Kremlinology of the White House, using tools and techniques honed in Soviet times, looking for clues and for hints and so on about what the hell is going on, what the mix of influences around Trump and indeed in Trump’s head is propelling his latest statement. It does seem at this point that… in astonishingly rapid and emphatic way that Trump’s current Russian policy has flipped back to some version of what it was when he returned to office in January. It’s as if his slow apparent disillusionment with Putin, his growing awareness that it’s Putin, not Zelenskyy, who’s the obstacle to peace, as if none of that had happened."
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Gould-Davies, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies:
"There’ve been so many extraordinary twists and turns in this so far. All that’s clear at this point is that Putin has already achieved the major victory of securing a summit meeting with the United States on American soil. And that’s something that he will be working very hard to make the maximum use of in the coming week. One further question is, where is Europe in all of this? Europe must be alarmed and, in fact, appalled by this latest turn of events."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nigel Gould-Davies, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies:
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STORYLINE:
An expert warned that U.S. President’s Donald Trump "astonishing U-turn" after agreeing to meet with Putin to discuss ending the war in Ukraine is an "alarming development".
Russia and Ukraine are far apart on their terms for peace.
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