Moscow has hit back at US President Donald Trump’s cancelation of his scheduled meeting with President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit saying that it would give more time for the Russian leader to hold more “useful” meetings. The two leaders were due to hold talks this weekend in Buenos Aries.
Scott Rickard, a former US Air Force Intelligence Analyst, political analyst told Sputnik that he believes the G20 summit in Argentina will prove to be a tense event due to the current geopolitical situation:
„Putin has really shown a good statesman position, he’s trying to promote peace in several areas around the planet and I honestly feel like this is not a safe place for Putin to go. Argentina has traditionally been very close to UK and US operations from an intelligence perspective, so there’s a lot of very anti-Russian intelligence operatives in Argentina and certainly the situation would be far more dangerous for Putin to go into what I would consider the lions den, South America.“
Mr Rickard also stressed that it’s not easy times for Moscow to try and find ways of cooperation with the West:
„I honestly believe that this is a very difficult time for Russia to play cooperative participant in any of these international affairs.
