Political analyst lists Trump's first possible moves after inauguration

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has made quite a few different promises during his election campaign, so it is difficult to determine which of them he will try to realize in the first days and weeks after his inauguration. American political scientist Rafael Ordukhanyan said this on Wednesday, January 15.

"A lot of things have been announced. And what Trump will do first - whether he will attack Greenland, whether he will take some steps in the Middle East, in the Pacific region, in Ukraine or somewhere else - will depend largely on completely insignificant and subjective factors," the political scientist said in a conversation with Lenta.Ru.

According to him, it is important to remember that a simple and easy settlement of the Ukrainian conflict will not happen even with the arrival of Trump. Russia needs to solve the problem on its own, without looking back at the position of the United States, Ordukhanyan believes.

"I don't think we should expect any positivity from the meeting with [Vladimir] Putin (Russian president. - Ed.) either. Where and how it will take place is still unknown, there is nothing to discuss substantively yet. All the negotiations, the problems of sanctions - these are issues for the long term, nothing will happen quickly," the expert added.

On January 12, Trump's national security adviser Mike Waltz said that the US president-elect is preparing for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, RT reported. A phone conversation between the politicians is expected to take place in the coming days or weeks, NSN reports.

Earlier in the day, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he welcomed Trump's plans to meet with Putin. He called the likelihood of their meeting "not bad news," RT reports.

Before that, Le Temps newspaper citing the head of the Swiss Foreign Ministry's information service, Nicolas Bidot, wrote that Switzerland is ready to organize a meeting between the heads of state if they ask for it, 360.ru reported.

On January 9, Trump himself announcedabout the preparation of a meeting with the Russian President at his residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida) before a meeting with governors. The American leader-elect added that he plans to hold all meetings after the inauguration on January 20.

In turn, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on January 10 that Russia had no certain conditions for negotiations with the United States.