Trump sagt, Putin ‚will nur Menschen töten‘ – ist ihre Bromance vorbei?

***From The Times:***

Like all rocky relationships, President Trump’s much-discussed “bromance” with President Putin has had its ups and downs. Yet from the trading of compliments and the mutual massaging of egos to the hours spent on the phone to each other, Putin and Trump have been closer than any American and Russian leaders in history.

Although Trump said in March he was “pissed off” with his counterpart over Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilians, their relationship seemed to be on the mend by May. After a two-hour phone call Trump called Putin a “nice gentleman” while a senior Kremlin adviser said “neither of them wanted to end the conversation”.

But with no indication that Putin intends to rethink his goal of bombing Ukraine into submission, Trump may be starting to realise the Russian leader is not his “best friend” — at least when it comes to geopolitics.

“I didn’t make any progress with him at all,” Trump said after another call with Putin last week. “It just seems like he wants to go all the way and just keep killing people. It’s not good.”

# Will Putin abandon peace and normalise relations anyway?

Trump says a lot of things, doubt he’s giving up on his strongman idol

there was never a bromance, only the left building a narrative about it.