Trump welcomes Putin and the Alaska Summit called “very productive”
President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Alaska Summit “very productive,” but said there was “no deal.”
Vladimir Putin was laughing. Donald Trump wasn’t.
As Russian and American leaders shook on the stage after they failed to reach the deal at the Alaska summit, President Trump saw his face that his four predecessors may have recognized after their own encounters, who denied the world with their resolve to rebuild their empire.
Trump seemed tired, irritated and worried. The path before him ignored the path before him, as he characteristically refused to ask a single question from the reporter’s phalanx, who raised his hand before him. With a small smile on his face, Putin was so relaxed and relaxed that he would tease him about speaking in Moscow – English, no one would miss the point.
However, hours after the Air Force returned to Washington, Trump was resurrected and appeared to embrace a new and different plan for peace. He abandoned his top priorities 24 hours ago, a strategy supported by Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelenskyy and NATO allies.
“The best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is not a peace agreement that ends the war, and often does not halt,” he said of the truth, a social media platform.
Incidentally, this was the approach Putin had always wanted.
Zelensky met him at the White House on August 18th, and Trump announced he would consider what will happen next. Ukrainian leaders have consistently opposed ceasefire talks without a ceasefire, giving Russia the opportunity to keep its battlefield advantage unhindered.
The fear among Ukrainian supporters is the last rebirth of the Ukrainian leader in February in the oval office. He was condemned by the President and Vice President JD Vance for his insufficient gratitude to the United States to hinder the peace deal with Russia.
“Now it’s really President Zelensky who’s going to accomplish that,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity after the summit. A three-way meeting with President Putin could then follow.
In Putin’s case, like a limousine lift and a red carpet.
It’s no wonder why Putin appears happy in Alaska.
The summit was a blow-off for him, ending quarantine from the west with a welcome of red caterpillars and a rare vehicle in the back seat of an armored presidential limousine called the “beast.” The Russian leader could see him talking and laughing through the window with the president.
He was pleased to have returned to American soil for the first time in ten years.
Joined by two advisors, they spoke for about three hours before skipping the planned luncheon and economics meeting, instead heading to the news meeting without question.
The two leaders then took another vehicle back to the airfield.
The summit did not achieve what Trump said in advance what he wanted most: a ceasefire. The term “ceasefire” was not mentioned in subsequent statements.
Trump had also set a series of deadlines for Russia to agree to progress and to face secondary sanctions. The latest deadline passed on August 8th, when they agreed to meet in Alaska. After the summit, he also did not mention the word “sanction.”
By the next morning, “just a ceasefire contract” was no longer the goal.
Campaign promise now postponed for 200 days
The big promises Trump made during his 2024 campaign have not proven to be more difficult to achieve than his assurance that he could resolve the crushing war in Ukraine on his first day in office, based primarily on his confidence based on his relationship with Putin. But that was more than 200 days ago, and despite Trump’s transition from friendly pleading to an undefined threat of “very serious consequences,” attacks on Russian Ukrainian forces and its civilians have not been mitigated.
Despite the declaration of “pursuing peace” engraved on the blue background behind the two men.
“So there’s no deal,” Trump told pregnant audiences, an unfortunate approval from a self-explained master negotiator, entitled “The Art of the Deal.” Fulmmox, who appeared on Trump’s face at a press conference on August 15, was familiar with Barack Obama and sent Secretary of State Barack Clinton to meet with Russian Foreign Office buttons in 2014 to see the illegal Annex Crimea in Moscow, with the red “reset” button as a visual aid for the new era.
Or, when George W. Bush saw the event after his first meeting with Putin in 2001 after he decided that he “see a man in his eyes” and declared that he had determined he was “candid and reliable.”
They are not adjectives the president has used about Putin since.
That being said, Trump’s tone to President Putin called him “Vladimir” even after the summit failed to reach its pre-set goals. “We did well,” he told Fox News. “I’ve always had a great relationship with President Putin.”
