According to him, Putin got out of this meeting “a clear winner.” He returned to the world arena after many years of geopolitical confrontation, on equal terms with the leader of the superpower, was accepted on the red carpet and, most importantly, he did not have to agree to the ceasefire. The threat of improper sanctions also retreated again.
Trump provided him with propaganda gold mine, the publication says. The Russian media, which he completely controls, will rejoice for several more weeks, the author writes.
“Donald Trump is a clear loser. It seems that he did not receive anything in return for trying his best to welcome the Russian leader,” the author writes.
He notes that Trump is craving for attention and bright moments on television, and this is the only thing he received in Alaska.
“Putin, it seems, evaded the answer and played Trump like a violin,” the journalist writes.
Ukrainians, who were not invited, are also losing, as this means continuing the shelling and attacks of seedlings, as a result of which more people will die.
The author emphasizes that if Trump sincerely wants to put an end to the murders, he can resort to much more effective means than to -avoid summits, in particular, additional sanctions against the Russian oil industry and those who are engaged in it.
Based on the result, Alaska sends a clear signal to Ukraine and its European allies, the article says. America can continue to support Ukrainian defense, but now it is already due to the sale, and not the supply of weapons directly. Perhaps they will continue to provide the necessary military intelligence information, and possibly not. But the rest of Ukraine is more and more left to itself. In Europe, this has been discussing this for several months. The task for Europeans is to quickly build up their capabilities to support Ukraine in order to fill in a growing vacuum formed because of Trump, whose sympathies are more and more in a different direction, the publication said.
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On August 15, the seventh meeting of Trump and Putin took place in Alaska. The US President met Putin at the Elmandorf air base. Negotiations began at 22.00 in Kyiv and lasted about three hours.
The US President said before the negotiations that he wanted to achieve a ceasefire in the Russian-Ukrainian war and “will not be satisfied if this does not happen” during the summit. After negotiations with Putin, he did not report to achieve such an agreement. “There is no agreement until it is concluded,” Trump said.
On the morning of August 16, the White House said that Trump after negotiations with Putin phoned the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, as well as With the leaders of NATO countries.
