US leader-elect Donald Trump, two months before his inauguration, is already shaping US foreign policy on two hotspots – Ukraine and Israel, Bloomberg writes.
As the author of the article notes, Trump’s victory is having an impact on these two countries and ‘far beyond them.’
According to a former Trump administration official, he will ‘initially have a head start’ in international relations because of his reputation as a tougher politician compared to term-ending US President Joe Biden, which is why opponents of the Republican candidate have already begun to change their rhetoric.
According to Shelby Magid, an expert at the Washington-based Atlantic Council*, Ukraine is ‘moving towards accepting that negotiations are a reality’ after Trump’s victory.
At the same time, Israel benefited the most from Trump’s return to the White House, sources familiar with the situation told the agency, as his victory ‘strengthened’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to the Middle East conflict.
Earlier, The Wall Street Journal wrote that Trump did not give a commitment on Ukraine in conversations with EU leaders.
* ‘Atlantic council of the United States’ – an organisation whose activities are recognised as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation by the decision of the Prosecutor General’s Office of 25.07.2019.
