{"id":135705,"date":"2025-03-18T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135705"},"modified":"2025-03-18T06:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T10:41:55","slug":"bloomberg-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135705","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) Trump Talks of Dividing Ukraine \u2018Assets\u2019 Before Putin Call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Trump said the US and Russia are already talking about dividing \u201cassets\u201d&nbsp;as part of a push to end the fighting in Ukraine, the latest sign that he may be preparing to sacrifice Kyiv\u2019s interests when he speaks with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One objective of the call is expected to be getting the Russian president to agree to a 30-day ceasefire that Trump proposed this month and Ukraine has agreed to. Putin has been noncommittal so far, saying he accepted the idea in principle but wants certain conditions to be met. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTomorrow morning I will be speaking to President Putin concerning the War in Ukraine,\u201d Trump said Monday evening in a social media post. \u201cMany elements of a Final Agreement have been agreed to, but much remains.\u201d Those remarks, along with Trump\u2019s comments to reporters Sunday night that the two sides were already talking about how to divide assets, suggest that many decisions have already been made \u2014 with or without Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-03-17\/trump-talk-of-dividing-assets-prompts-concern-before-his-call-with-putin\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Donald Trump said the US and Russia are already talking about dividing \u201cassets\u201d as part of a push to end the fighting in Ukraine, the latest sign that he may be preparing to sacrifice Kyiv\u2019s interests when he speaks with Vladimir Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VssbS4Uy1T\">https:\/\/t.co\/VssbS4Uy1T<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bloomberg (@business) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/business\/status\/1901831513462710743?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said the US and Russia are already talking about dividing \u201cassets\u201d&nbsp;as part of a push to end the fighting in Ukraine, the latest sign that he may be preparing to sacrifice Kyiv\u2019s interests when he speaks with Vladimir<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135705\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,144,106,151,665,479,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-foreign-relations","category-military-armed-forces","category-politics-in-general","category-president-donald-trump","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135705"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135713,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135705\/revisions\/135713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}