London – If President Donald Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize, he should contain the negotiation of a high fire between Ukraine and Russia, the former Top Spy of Great Britain said on Thursday NBC News.
Richard Dearlove, the former head of the British Intelligence Agency MI6, said that a truce hastened, and giving too many concessions to the Kremlin, could encourage President Vladimir Putin to launch other hostile incursions to Europe.
The Russians need a fire, said Dearlove, citing Kremlin’s cash reserves and the fall in the price of crude oil, which Moscow exports to finance their war machine.
“Ukraine is quite close to a turning point,” he said in a broad interview. “But the concern at this time is that Trump will make a premature agreement with the Russians” and make too many concessions.
The “highly undesirable” consequences would be “emboldener to the Russians, over time, be more aggressive and assertive in Europe,” Dearlove said about a coffee in one of the historical clubs of private members in London.
His comments arrive when the military chief of Ukraine said that Russia had launched a new offensive in the country of Eastern Europe.
While it is often less critical of Trump’s unorthodox approach than many other foreign policy experts, Dearlove said he finds the “general lack of” general of Trump “and the” lack of decent behavior “to be” very disconcerting “, specifically his breakup of the Oval office with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in February.
“My general vision of the Americans is that they are friendly and they behave with much respect,” said a 80 -year -old Dearlove Gently, an Olympic son who spent a year at the Kent’s preparatory school in Connecticut before obtaining his title in Great Britain at the University of Cambridge. “The way Trump has exploded all that is extraordinary.”
The great jovial and open of the establishment of British foreign policy joined the MI6 in 1966 and served as his boss, with the code code “C”, between 1999 and 2004. He is now coanfitrion of the podcast “One Decision”, which covers the global news, together with the former Secretary of Defense of the United States, Leon Panetta.
He says that “the US president’s campaign firmly” to press European allies to spend more in defense, denouncing the imbalance of Europe enjoying a relatively generous medical care system and benefits while leaving the United States for the bill for Western defense.
“Why should American taxpayers pay for indulgent social security programs in countries such as Germany, France and Italy?” said.
He rules “Signalgate”, in which Trump’s team discussed bombing Yemen in the courier application signal, as a “stupid error” and “silly” that showed “a degree of amateurism.” And he said he would not have a long -term impact on the exchange of Western intelligence.
He contacted to comment on Dearlove’s comments, the press secretary director of the White House, Harrison Fields, said: “President Trump is a master negotiator who has made more to achieve world peace during his mandate than any president in modern history.”
“The president’s peace through the Force Agenda has delivered historical achievements worldwide and has restored US dominance on the world stage,” Fields added. “The ‘experts’ have been wrong for decades, and doing the same while waiting for a different result is the definition of madness.”
The Chief of MI6 says that his biggest short -term concern revolves around Trump’s approach to Ukraine, which has involved parallel conversations with kyiv and Moscow and has been criticized by Trump’s critics in the West as too favorable for the latter.
“If you want to obtain the Nobel Peace Prize, don’t make a premature agreement with Ukraine, wait,” said Dearlove. (According to former assistants, the president still greets the historical award won by four of his predecessors, and for which Trump has been nominated at least twice before).
Dearlove believes that the Russians are on the back and will only have more pressure to accept terms. “The Russians themselves need bad fire, but Putin is unable to look for one because” it does not have a reverse march, “Dearlove said.
In Iran, responding to Trump’s announcement that the United States will celebrate direct conversations with Tehran about its nuclear program, Dearlove says that he believes that the administration “will require a very high price”, namely, that Iran will give up its entire nuclear program, both for energy and weapons.
“I think there is a final result for Trump and Israel that Iran should not have nuclear capacity,” he said. “I think it is quite clear that if they will try to build or if intelligence suggests that they are armed, then there would be an Israeli-American attack.”
Trump did not rule out military action if the conversations are not successful, saying that Tehran would have a “very bad day” if the diplomacy failed.
Dearlove agreed: “If the Iranians do not negotiate, or if they deceive, they are quite capable of doing, they are those who go to a crisis.”
Dearlove was Chief of Mi6 when the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, and was then criticized for a public investigation for its intelligence management claiming that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, a key argument that directed Great Britain to the war with Washington. In the investigation in 2017, he described the claims that he was too close to the British government as “complete garbage.” And, according to a BBC interview in 2023, he is among a minority of people who believe that Iraq had some type of weapons program, but that its components may have moved to neighboring Syria.
Looking towards the future, Dearlove believes that the biggest problem is how the West treats China.
“Pax American”, the “American peace” that has remained largely since 1945 and is synonymous with the global postwar domain of Washington, has “definitely disintegrated,” he said. Instead, there must be “some kind of understanding between the United States and China”, whose president Xi Jinping “wants to create a world by 2050 that is aligned with the Chinese values system,” he added.
“China and the West are intimately intertwined: you can’t disarm them, you can’t miss them,” he said. “But at the same time, it totally opposes the western value system.”
He characterizes the Chinese Communist Party of XI as “speaking of global domination”, something with vehemence rejected by Beijing.
“There will have to be some kind of international agreement that accommodates what I would describe as the two spheres of influence,” he said. Otherwise, China “will end in a confrontation with the United States at some time in the 21st century.”
