US President Donald Trump’s 90-minute phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised the stakes for the upcoming NATO summit in Ankara, where allied leaders will face a central question: can Washington and Europe rebuild a common strategy on Ukraine? Political analyst Paul Goble urged caution in reading too much into the call’s reported length, saying the actual substance of the exchange was likely far shorter once interpretation was factored in.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “A 90-minute conversation between leaders who don’t speak the same language is really only about a 35- or 40-minute conversation because of the translation times,” Goble told Kyiv Post. He also downplayed Trump’s public claim that both Putin and President Volodymyr Zelensky want to end the war. For Goble, such language is not surprising from a US president who wants to present himself as a mediator. “What else might he say?” Goble asked. “If he came out and said the Russians don’t want peace, there’d be no basis for talks.” Trump’s dual-track diplomacy Goble said the more important point is not simply that Trump spoke with Putin, but that he has also been speaking with Zelensky. That back-and-forth, he argued, is exactly what a would-be mediator does when trying to position himself between two sides. “The mistake will be if people conclude the fact that he’s talking to Moscow means he’s not talking to Kyiv,” Goble said. “That’s a huge mistake.”