Turning down any help in dealing with Iran could mean several things.
- Trump is done negotiating with Iran.
- Trump doesn’t trust Putin.
- Trump thinks Putin has no cards to play.
- All of the above.
- That Putin is hypocritical in criticizing Israel for attacking Iran. For Russia attacked Ukraine under the premise that promises were not kept, and mistreatment of his people, and that its invasion was justified due to Ukraine being a military thread due to alignment with nuke powers. Likewise Israel, except that Iran seeks death to Israel, not simply defeat.
4) the conversation either didn’t happen or was substantially different than he reported. note that russia denies that they have spoken since saturday.
this is very serious overall.