Trump-Putin Alaska Meeting Failed but Was Still Worth Trying

US president Donald Trump attracted a lot of pottery for his invitation to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the American soil for the first time in a decade, with a red carpet, the bright “Alaska 2025” brand, and a joint press conference. This was despite the lack of a few Russian leader in advance, with the exception of a pledge to continue to kill the Ukrainians and seize their lands if the summit did not specifically go.

A clear speed at the press conference held by the two leaders on Friday, Trump came out with less than the minimum he was hoping for, which was a temporary endowment. Despite Putin’s generous words to Trump – Trump described him as a “wonderful” partner – it seemed that the Russian did not give anything at all in his primary position that Ukraine is Russian lands and that he would not give up this.

Trump put his best on everything. “We did not get there, but we have a good opportunity to get there,” Trump said, declaring that the talks were “very fruitful” and that “many points were agreed upon.” But he acknowledged that there was no progress in one of the most important, which may have been the ceasefire in Ukraine. The two came out of the press conference without eating questions.

Trump said: “There is no deal until there is a deal,” and he restores his functional philosophy as the master of the “art of the deal.”

This did not help, with no significant signal that he would get any concessions, Trump agreed to the top in the first place. These high risk meetings are usually arranged only when there is a reasonable signal to settle on both sides. But Trump raised expectations through praise and chatting with Putin a wide smile upon the latter’s arrival in Alaska on Friday. Then Putin called for his presidential weight to have a special conversation.

This was almost an unheard at the top of the main opponents or competitors. However, Trump will get a lot of criticism to give such optics proactive to Putin – to which he was accused as a crime of war to commit countless atrocities during the war that he started without being taken – with no anything in return.

In fact, it seemed that Putin was keen to play with vanity Trump by claiming that, as Trump often said without providing any evidence, Russia had never invaded Ukraine Trump, not his predecessor Joe Biden, president in 2022.

“Today, when President Trump was saying that if the president was at the time, there will be no war, and I am completely sure that it would be so. I can confirm it,” Putin said, while it could be just a suggestion that he believed that Trump would have been compatible with some Russian control over Ukraine.

The summit may be condemned from the start with violent mixed signals from the White House. The meeting happened just a few weeks after Trump said he was tired of Putin’s “nonsense”. “He is very nice all the time, but it turns out that it has no meaning,” Trump said in July. With the start of the Summit Week, Trump indicated that he will supervise some land exchange between Russia and Ukraine-only for European leaders to tell that everything he wants is the ceasefire and that any part of the land will have to wait for the arrival of Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelensky. Although the negotiation Zelensky position is also that the ceasefire must come first, it has not been invited to the Alaska’s top.

The two leaders left open to the possibility of future conversations. Many experts believe that the time has come in the past to experience a kind of diplomacy after more than three years of the horrific war that Putin started without hope to solve – and to face the possibility that Ukraine will lose at some point. Not to mention that the ongoing tensions wandering in poetry between Moscow and the West with universal stability slowly disintegrate.

“If you remember a year ago, Washington did not really allow any discussion on how a diplomatic settlement was made to the war in Ukraine,” said George Pep, the former CIA analysis and chip, which is now in Queens. “It was a curse. Now we are talking about it at least. Part of it is that Trump made this type of discussion possible. Part of it is that we recognize the fact that the Ukrainians will not outperform the Russians in a war of attrition.”

Bibi and other foreign political experts sometimes criticized Trump’s ancestor, President Joe Biden, who all closed the door to negotiations with Putin despite his repeatedly and repeatedly said that the talks were the only way out of the war.

But the constant stalemate may mean that Trump comes out of this high meeting that seems insulting and effective. In fact, if he bends to any of Putin’s demands without Ukrainian approval or European cooperation, Trump will undoubtedly call comparison with Nivel Chamberlain in Munich in 1938 – when the British Prime Minister was beneficial to Adolf Hitler – or at least, US President Franklin de Roosevelt at the Yalta summit in 1945. To divide Europe, and this did not help that Roosevelt died yet Only two months.)

However, it is also important to note that this moment is not similar to either Munich or Yalta in what is at stake. Unlike Hitler, Putin is poorly weak and not about to walk to Western Europe – and a unified cross – or even confirm control of most Ukraine, is much lower than the countries of the previous eastern bloc. Putin has already referred to several times that he would be satisfied with maintaining control of the Crimea, which in 2014 joined the small Western protest, as well as the eastern parts of Ukraine now.

Perhaps the best possible result of the Alaska’s summit may be a long stop along the current front lines, leaving regional questions in the absence of contracts even for contracts. It can be one of the future truce models that were not resolved between North Korea and South Korea. According to what was reported, it can involve Russia’s real control over occupied Ukraine, similar to the actual base of Israel – but is not recognized internationally – in the West Bank. According to what was reported, this idea arose in discussions between Trump’s envoy Steve Witkev and his Russian counterparts, according to what he said. London times. But none of the two sides appeared to be discussing these ideas.

The future will be questions about Trump’s ability to really harsh with Putin. This is due to their first official saying in Helsinki in July 2018, when Trump rejected his intelligence experts and defended Putin’s denial of Russian intervention in the 2016 US elections (which has been documented since then). Between the presidency, Trump held a number of private meetings with Putin and expressed great admiration for him. Immediately before the Russian president invaded Ukraine, Trump Putin has already praised his aggression. “I said,” This is a genius, “Trump told a right radio program on February 22, 2022.

Early of his second presidency, Trump publicly insulted Zelinski. He spoke again and again at a White House meeting and blamed him in the aggression of Putin.

However, in recent weeks, Trump has greatly transformed the path in response to Putin’s ongoing aggression. The US President has hinted that he could impose the so-called secondary sanctions on countries that buy Russian oil and gas-a step that could actually destroy Russia’s economy. Earlier in August, Trump doubled the tariff on India to 50 percent to buy oil and weapons from Russia, and on Wednesday, he warned of “severe consequences” if Moscow did not agree to a peace agreement.

However, any such such is still unlikely in the short term, as this summit showed. Few diplomats-and most importantly, Zelinsky and his senior officials-imagine that Putin will have long noticed a ceasefire without securing a permanent grant of Ukrainian lands. This is a privilege that Zellinski says is not ready to create it, especially without ensuring NATO membership or backup copy of the United States or European security forces. Since he was elected for the second time, Trump suggested that he would not accept Ukraine in NATO.

The ongoing war has placed almost everything in Western hemisphere – in particular, that is, a possibility of renewable strategic weapons conversations between Washington and Moscow. This comes at a time when both sides update their nuclear graphics; Development of more advanced weapons, such as high -end missiles; And integrate artificial intelligence into increasingly independent systems with a little organization or non -existent.

As a president, Trump sometimes moved away from what he considered a bad deal. He did this during his first term after the North Korean leader has repeatedly attracted Kim Jong Un, to leave a summit in Hanoi in February 2019 without even a partial agreement to dismantle the Pyongyang nuclear weapons program.

“Basically, they wanted to lift the sanctions completely, and we were unable to do so,” Trump said at the time. “They were ready to raise a large part of the areas we wanted, but we were unable to give up all the sanctions on that … We had to go away from this particular proposal.”

But successful diplomacy of any kind requires a kind of high risk settlement. Success is often a long-term project not only follows the initial failure-as shown in the previous presidential summer. In the David camp, he speaks between the Israelis and the Palestinians who were organized by US President Jimmy Carter in 1978, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat actually threatened to mobilize his bags to leave several times, and Israeli Prime Minister Minachim stopped talking to the president before Carter was able to rescue a barely deal. In 1905, US President Theodore Roosevelt managed to penetrate any uninterrupted curriculum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, at eleven o’clock in resolving the Japanese war-which Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize a year later.

Despite the mixed signals of his administration about the period in which he wanted to remain a participant in the conflict of Ukraine, Russia-in the 2024 campaign, Trump used to say that he would replace it within 24 hours, only to express frustration over and over again with both Putin and Zelinski after taking office-Trump referred to himself as a “payment maker” who expanded his open scope.

“I have solved six wars in the past six months, a little more than six months, and I am very proud of that,” Trump said on Thursday at the Oval Office.

Alaska’s summit did not help his case.