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A “no” is not a “yes” when it is a “maybe”, a “probably not” or a “only if”.

This is the painfully predictable lesson the first real incursion of the Trump administration in the diplomacy of war with Kremlin has tried. They have been desperately beroleated.

They requested a high -day fire fire without conditions. On Tuesday, they obtained an exchange of relatively small prisoners, hockey matches, more talks and a month mutual pause about attacks against “energy infrastructure.”

This last sentence is where an easily avoidable technical mined field begins. By president Donald Trump’s Post and that of its press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, the agreement referred to “energy and Infrastructure. “These are two sets of completely different ideas.

Russia says it will not attack electricity networks and gas supplies in Ukraine, since it has mercilessly in recent years. The White House, confusingly, in a disagreement, typographic error or translation marriage, has extended this truce to potentially every part of Ukraine that is considered infrastructure: bridges, perhaps key roads, ports or railways.

It has created conditions that are almost impossible for the relentless rhythm of Russia of aerial assaults, which resume, as they do every night, on Tuesday night, to adhere.

It could be said that, with the closed summer and the urgent need for Ukrainians to have a reduction in warmation, Moscow ceases energy infrastructure attacks is less a concession.

However, for Ukraine, the demand that they stop hitting Russia’s energy infrastructure eliminates one of its most powerful forms of attack. For months they have been attacking Russia’s refineries and oil pipes, damaging the main Kremlin fund collection tool: the export of their hydrocarbons.

Trump Call with Russian President Vladimir Putin gave almost nothing to the fact that Kremlin’s head feels he can overcome his counterpartless counterpart.

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