Alaska meeting – “a strategic improvisation”. Expert: “Only an attempt to convince the Russian aggressor to stop the attack”

The meeting between world leaders Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, held at an American military base in Alaska, was “Only an attempt to convince the Russian aggressor to stop his aggression on Ukraine,” He considers Hari Bucur-Marcu's security policies, in a Facebook post.

The process of convincing Moscow will continue, considers Hari Bucur-Marcu. Photo: AFP

According to him, the meeting represented rather a stage from a larger Russia's attempt to accept at least one temporary armistice.

“It was obvious to everyone who watched the events in Alaska live that it did not come there, at the conviction of the Russians, with little in the forehead, to stop the war, that is, their aggression on Ukraine, or at least to cease the fire, for a period of time to negotiate the configuration of the next stages and ultimately,” writes Hari Bucur-Marcu.

The Security Policy Expert emphasizes that the Americans “did everything possible” to allow the meeting, from the official receipt with military demonstration elements, to the change of the discussion format.

However, in his opinion, the process remains a “Strategic improvisation”, By which the West hopes to avoid direct constraint measures on Russia and its supporters, especially China.

“We must admit that we are in the face of a strategic improvisation, which has no precedent and which can develop in one direction or the other, depending on the parameters difficult to anticipate”, COnform to Bucur-Marcu.

Hari Bucur-Marcu believes that President Trump prefers to include the issue of Chinese support for Russia in a larger package of economic negotiations with Beijing, instead of applying unilateral sanctions. Thus, says the expert, the process of convincing Moscow will continue, and will also involve consultations with Europeans and Ukraine.

“So this time, US President Trump has not concluded that Putin cannot be convinced to cease his aggression on Ukraine and it seems that the process of conviction will take another step, the information of the Europeans and of course of the Ukrainians with those discussed by Americans with the Russian delegation, and according to their reaction, according to the new people, according to the Ukrainians, (…) Which is a victory for Putin. the analyst concluded.