Donald Trump is losing patience with Russia, says Finnish leader

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : Since President Trump came to power we
62% : "President Trump just said, enough, this is going to happen and it's going to happen now," he said.
60% : Radosław Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, was one of many European leaders who accepted that the rebalancing of defence spending in Europe between Europe and the US was long overdue, adding he was grateful to Trump.
55% : We have to convince the US administration that free trade and common rules are better than transactional deals, and we show we are serious about defence in Europe and that we are security providers and not security consumers.
54% : Alar Karis, the Estonian president, revealed he sat next to Trump for two hours at the pope's funeral in Rome and was told: "Don't worry, you are safe."
43% : "At the top level we should not go solo," he said. Stubb, one of the small group of European leaders with the ear of Trump, said he had been using his influence to persuade the president to revise his view of Russia's economic and military strength.
32% : At the Lennart Meri security conference in Tallinn he disclosed that in his conversation with Trump on Saturday he had tried to explain that Russia was no longer a great power, "certainly not economically".
29% : The initial package contained plans to impose 500% tariffs on the goods of any country trading in energy with Russia, a blunderbuss style of policy Trump has already reversed in his trade war.
28% : At a security conference in Estonia, Stubb said: "If we were to pull it together, we could say that Zelenskyy is patient and President Trump is starting to be impatient, but in the right direction, that is, towards Russia.
25% : Alexander Stubb said Trump and Putin, who are scheduled to speak by telephone on Monday, must not decide the fate of Ukraine over the head of its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
19% : Alexander Stubb says Putin's intransigence could pave way for 'bone-crushing' sanctions package Donald Trump is losing patience with Vladimir Putin, Finland's president has said after a lengthy conversation with his US counterpart.

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