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Former Swedish Prime Minister and current co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, Carl Bildt, has stated that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin uses flattery in his interactions with U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Bildt was reacting to an interview given by U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff to Tucker Carlson.
“Vladimir Putin knows that flattery works, especially on someone like Donald Trump. And he is using an impressive arsenal of it,” Bildt remarked.
The European Council co-chair also attached a clip from the interview in which Witkoff mentioned that Putin had commissioned a portrait of Trump from a leading Russian artist and had it delivered to the U.S. president.
In the same interview, Witkoff claimed that Ukraine’s NATO membership would be incompatible with a potential peace agreement with Russia. He also effectively acknowledged the so-called “referendums” Russia conducted in the occupied Ukrainian territories in 2022.
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