The executive director of the Institute of World Policy, Yevhen Mahda, shared his opinions with Espreso TV."Given Putin's position, I don't expect anything special from Witkoff's visit to Moscow or Kellogg's visit to Kyiv. The issue is that political will is needed to make the right decisions. At the moment, Trump's will is more like that of a businessman: to obtain some benefits, advantages — to have money for the American budget, even though the U.S. is already the world's most powerful economy," Mahda noted.According to the political analyst, Trump lacks a clear geopolitical strategy. He criticizes Obama and Biden, who were actually not as radical in their foreign policy as, for example, the administrations of both George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. At the same time, Trump does not show the same effectiveness in confronting the “evil empire” as Ronald Reagan once did.“But here it’s also important to understand that although Reagan destroyed the ‘evil empire,’ he met with Gorbachev and held negotiations with him. Talking to Gorbachev back then is one thing; dealing with today’s Putin is quite another. And the fact that Trump’s team still largely remains trapped in Cold War-era thinking, in my opinion, poses a serious problem,” Mahda added.On the evening of Sunday, August 4, Finnish President Alexander Stubb had a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump. During the conversation, the Finnish leader supported the American initiative regarding a deadline for Russia to cease fire in Ukraine.