Call It “Churchill’s Nightmare.” In their two-hour May 19 phone call, Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke “extensively and warmly” about the close alliance of the United States and Russia in the World War II fight to defeat militarism and fascism, Putin’s aide Yuri Ushakov reported afterwards. Appropriately, that subject came up in the context of Putin recounting to Trump how the Zelenskyy regime had launched attacks on Moscow with the intent of sabotaging the May 9 celebrations of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day.
According to the May 20 TASS wire on Ushakov’s briefing, Putin informed Trump of how, instead of joining Russia in the three-day ceasefire it had declared to mark that solemn anniversary, Ukraine, starting on the night of May 7, fired over 500 drones and Storm Shadow missiles into Russia (most aimed at Moscow), attempted terrorist attacks near the center of Moscow which were thwarted, and “directly threatened foreign participants of the festive events.”
“The authors of these intimidations were those who honor Nazi criminals and promote militaristic views,” Putin stated.
