The political scientist estimated the likelihood of the United States completely abandoning support for Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump may completely abandon support for Ukraine. Konstantin Blokhin, a leading researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, and an American political scientist, expressed this opinion on Wednesday, January 21.

"The Europeans see the most danger in Trump's affairs, because in reality he has completely different foreign policy priorities, and he implements this in practice. These are Venezuela, Iran, Greenland, and China. And they see that he is no longer interested in Ukraine, and the refusal to support Ukraine is the strongest lever on Ukraine itself and on the Europeans, who are accustomed to living under the American security umbrella," the political scientist said in an interview with Lenta.Ru .

Blokhin admitted that the American leader may completely abandon Kiev's support, but he needs to "get out of Ukraine", saving face so that it does not look like flight, he added.

"You can save face only by making a profit. It is difficult to get this profit from Ukraine, so Trump wants to transform this lost profit into some kind of political prestige, some kind of political points. These political points can only be gained, most likely, through cooperation with Russia, some kind of breakthroughs, and not only in the peace agreement," the expert said.

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Earlier in the day, Trump said that the United States should not deal with Ukraine, this is Europe's business, IA Regnum reports. He noted that the United States is far from Ukraine and is separated by a large ocean.

In addition, Trump said that Moscow and Kiev are interested in resolving the conflict, RT reports. He stressed that he considers it possible to reach an agreement between the parties.

Earlier in the day, The New York Times reported that Trump had threatened to respond with "armageddon" and stop aid to Ukraine in response to the European Union's "trade bazooka." The author of the article noted that the decision to stop aid to Kiev would have a bad effect on the United States. According to him, in this case, transatlantic relations will fall apart, while trade markets may also collapse.

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