For a short time, the world believed that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin were meeting in Budapest to negotiate peace. Péter Tarjányi said in the latest broadcast of Frontvonal that Putin “pulled the telephone cord” and managed to freeze the negotiations again. The security policy expert believes that Russia is not preparing for peace, but for a long war.

The eyes of the whole world were on Budapest when it was suggested that a meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin could take place in the Hungarian capital. However, according to Péter Tarjányi, the diplomatic developments of recent days point more towards another “freeze” of negotiations than towards real peace.

Peace talks: were there or not?

In the program, Péter Tarjányi explained that for a while, all signs pointed to Washington and Kiev re-aligning their positions on the Ukrainian war, when Putin unexpectedly called Trump. “This was a classic interruption in security policy,” Tarjányi said. “ When the struggle is going on at a certain pace, and suddenly one side unexpectedly moves at a completely different pace. Putin pulled the phone cord with this call. ”

According to the expert, President Putin outlined a “Russian variation” for ending the war, one of the elements of which would have been the transfer of the remaining 30 percent of Donetsk to Russia. Trump took over this narrative and repeated it. “The Ukrainian president brought maps with him, and Trump swept them off the table,” recalled Tarjányi, who believes that the Russian plan, which aimed to postpone the US-Ukrainian negotiations on the Tomahawk missiles, succeeded.

It didn't fail, it stopped.

Tarjányi also said in the broadcast that:

• The real goal of the Russian peace proposal is to gain time, not to end the conflict – Russia wants to wear Ukraine out in the long run.
• Russia has huge human reserves: the new mobilization law allows for the call-up of up to two million reservists, and they can send 400-800 thousand fresh soldiers to the front every year.
• North Korea has been arming for years, and they can support Russia.
• The Budapest peace summit is “frozen” – it did not fail, but it has stalled.
• The US-Russian foreign minister meeting failed, the parties’ positions are irreconcilable.
• There is a greater chance of the war continuing than of the Budapest summit taking place – the positions are along with the front lines they freeze.
• The West would accept a ceasefire along the current lines, but Moscow said no – making it clear that Russia wants to continue the war.
• Trump approaches geopolitics as a businessman, a “real estate developer”, not a politician – he sees business in war.

According to Péter Tarjányi, Vladimir Putin has recognized Donald Trump's decision-making logic and is consciously creating situations where the American president tends to"re-negotiate."