Putin’s ‘very quick’ meeting with Trump is no | Political News

Donald Trump said he would meet Vladimir Putin “very quickly” after he takes workplace, but the transient nature of the proposed event is no coincidence for the Russian chief who “doesn’t seem to want to get too near to people who he doesn’t control”, according to a Russian security knowledgeable.

The President didn’t present a timeline for the meeting, which might be the first between the leaders of the 2 international locations since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, but it has since been announced that they may meet in Alaska this Friday.

It was also at this time that former Kremlin analyst Professor Valery Solovei said Putin, now 72, was shielded from delivering any public addresses and was using physique doubles.

In mild of Putin’s current behaviors, Professor Anthony Glees, a lecturer at the University of Buckingham, told the Scottish Daily Express that Putin seems like a “Madame Tussauds waxwork figure” and would not “seem to want to get too near to people who he doesn’t control, i.e. could tell us objectively what he really looks like in the flesh.”

Despite Trump adopting a more accommodating strategy with Putin than other Western leaders, this reluctance to be seen in individual might embody the US President once he is inaugurated.

Trump told Newsmax, “… I know he wants to meet, and I’m going to meet very quickly. I would’ve done it sooner but…you have to get into the office. For some of the things, you do have to be there.”

Professor Glees requested, “How close will Trump be able to get to him in order to see him properly?” He went on to say, “All I think we can say is that there is certainly something very odd indeed about Putin’s looks. We see film of him, but film can be photoshopped.

“In Putin’s case there is, it appears, not only no ageing but reverse engineering had taken place. He seems youthful than he did 40 years in the past. So if they meet close up and not a long desk aside it actually be Putin or a physique double, as naturally it might probably’t be an AI avatar.”

In 2023, footage showed an audience laughing as Putin was asked by an AI version of himself at a news conference if he had “a lot of physique doubles”. He stated that AI was “not possible to stop” and Russia ought to “lead the method”.

Prof Glees commented: “Putin had even joked about avatars. Why? In today’s setting of AI fakery we will not even be sure that Putin is Putin and not an avatar.”

He continued: “Putin seems extraordinarily odd to those of us on the surface world: aside from his filler-enriched cheeks, botoxed options and rigorously coloured and formed hair his face as a complete seems like a Mme Tussaud waxwork. It’s spooky.”

In 2022, Lord Richard Dannatt, chief of general staff to the army from 2006 to 2009, suggested that strange marks and coloration seen on Putin’s hands could indicate evidence he is receiving injections for Parkinson’s treatment.

Professor Glees questioned: “Does he have blackened palms from injections as Lord Dannatt believes?” He suggested that the Kremlin might leverage Trump’s skepticism towards vaccines to avoid a close encounter, stating “we all know Putin is afraid of viruses”. He continued: “The Russians may use this to not have a close meeting with Trump.”

He further inquired: “If it is the individual we expect it is, does Putin have the Parkinson’s frozen face or the lip and leg tremors related with it?” In 2022, Putin’s deteriorating health was also hinted at by his lover, gymnast Alina Kabaeva, who alleged that the dictator suffered a severe heart attack in October 2023. She then vanished from the public eye the following month, reportedly reappearing with a limp in December 2024.

Professor Glees concurred with former MI6 chief Richard Dearlove’s perspective that Kabaeva’s allegations “may nicely be true, given the pressure he was under” but clarified “it clearly wasn’t a deadly assault if he had one.

“Putin is under massive strain and stress, it can’t be otherwise, given what this terrifying and murderous wannabe Tsar is doing to the brave Ukrainians and his own people. We know the way stress affects all political leaders and after two decades the real Putin will inevitably be running out of time. No one can take the strain forever.”