Is Trump Positioning for a "No-Deal" with Russia ??" or Not?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : He must be aware that Putin repeatedly has made plain that he is both interested and open to talks with Trump.
48% : In a subsequent Truth Social post, Trump writes, "I'm going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR.
42% : Maybe Trump is thinking simply to let the dynamics of the military "trial of strength" play out.
34% : It seems more as though it is Trump that is preparing for a "no deal."
24% : "Instead, in a curiously disinterested way, Trump remarks that negotiations would depend entirely on whether Putin is interested or not.
23% : Yet Trump subsequently contradicts the "loser discourse" in yet another apparent after-thought: "I mean ...
22% : Trump answers a journalist's question "Would [he] sanction Russia" should Putin not come to the negotiating table?
19% : After touting the one million Russian deaths, Trump then suggests that Putin is destroying Russia by not making a deal.
8% : Alternatively, were Trump to be seriously seeking productive negotiations with Putin, it is certainly not a good way to start by being deeply disrespectful towards the Russian people - depicting them and President Putin as "losers" who desperately need a deal; whereas the reality was that it was Trump who earlier had touted getting a deal within 24 hours.

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