What’s going on in the minds of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? | The Global Story

Fiona Hill is one of the foremost authorities on Vladimir Putin and a former White House advisor on Russia during Donald Trump’s first term.

Over the course of her career, she has sat across the table from the Russian president and helped shape US policy at the highest level.

Now that Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine has entered its fifth year, many are wondering whether peace talks between the Trump and Putin administration will ever lead to anything substantial.

We ask Fiona Hill what she thinks will be going through the minds of the two leaders.

We ask whether she thinks both men understand each other and whether there is any hope of a negotiated peace.

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Who is Fiona Hill?
01:45 Meeting Putin for the first time
04:00 Russia’s ‘watershed’ moment
09:00 Why did Fiona Hill become Trump’s advisor?
11:00 ‘You can’t prep Trump’
17:00 Is a negotiated peace possible in Ukraine?
21:00 ‘Trump doesn’t understand Putin’