Trump -Putin – Alaska, followed: “The time of Vietnam for Ukraine has arrived, in which the US will ask them to accept the transfer of the territory?” An American conservative publication wonders what Trump will do on Monday at the meeting with Zelenski

After the Anchorage summit, Donald Trump invited Volodimir Zelenski on Monday at the White House. Until then, on Sunday, European leaders will be advised in a video conference to which the President of Romania, Nicușor Dan, will take part.

• There are also more optimistic interpretations for Zelenski. “Mr. Putin has a bigger problem: Mr. Trump did not give in to Ukraine.”

“What happened at the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska suggests that, sooner or later, President Zelenski will reach what we call” Vietnam moment. ” This is the moment when the leader of Ukraine will have to decide whether, according to Donald Trump, he will “conclude an agreement” that will leave enemy soldiers on his territory, “writes The New York Sun in a Saturday article.

In this case, there will be a variant for Zelenski. But it's very hard.

“If he says” no “to give in to the territories, Zelenski will leave and continue the war with a weak hand,” the publication anticipates.

“Peace of honor”, from Nixon to Trump

This is not the first time an American president uses the phrase “peace of honor”, trying to determine his ally to accept it.

On the blue panels at the Alaska summit, on Friday, he wrote “In search of peace”. Also about the honorable search for peace, President Nixon spoke in 1973, when the US was trying to get out of the Vietnam war.

“This is the position in which our free ally in South Vietnam, President Nguyen Van Thieu, was in January 1973, when President Nixon asked him to accept the loss of territories and sent his proposal through his envoy,” General Alexander Haig, “the conservative newspaper recalls.

“Brutality means nothing,” Nixon told Secretary Kissinger, who recorded this in his memoirs. “You did not see anything if this bastard does not accept, believe me.”, Referring to the leadership of South Vietnam, who was massively helped by the US, including with military technique, specialists, money and troops, the last element, the troops, not being valid now, in the case of Ukraine.

Paralela Ukraine – Vietnam

“Welcome to Vietnam, we say. The parallels between Ukraine and Vietnam are not accurate, but echoes can be detected,” writes The New York Sun.

“In 1973, America sought to withdraw from the military defense of the South Vietnam in front of the inexorable campaign of the communist north. Nixon and the North have set an agreement to save appearances for the withdrawal of American troops, leaving South Vietnam to continue the fight for freedom – alone.”

At that time, Kissinger was enthusiastic about the imminent agreement-promoted by Nixon as “peace with honor”-considering him a “worthy of celebration”, said US Secretary of State.

But there was only one problem, Kissinger recalls. “We still did not have the agreement of that small, brave man in Saigon, President Thieu. We can imagine that the Leader of Free Vietnam was not too pleased with the withdrawal of America.”

Indications received by the Russian press before Alaska summit

Today, the withdrawal of America from helping Ukraine “in Vietnam style” is what has been figured since the beginning of Donald Trump's second term. And what Vladimir Putin encouraged.

For example, the Russian state press received clear instructions to reflect the Alaska summit on the idea that Ukraine and Europe sabotages the efforts of honorable peace, which Trump and Putin do.

This shows how important it is for Putin to convince Trump that, as a Russian journalist even wrote on Saturday, after Alaska, “that he is responsible for war, Trump became responsible for peace.”

“The elegant way to say that America was washed on the hands”

Returning to the parallel of Ukraine – Vietnam, the Conservative newspaper writes that Nixon's approach was applauded at that time in the Times editorials and other publications of the liberal press. In December 1972, a Times editorial believed that America “must inevitably leave the political fate of Vietnam in the hands of Vietnamese.” It was an elegant way to say that America was washing on the South Vietnam, leaving the Saigon regime to the mercy of Chinese and Russian communists.

A little more than two years after signing the Paris Peace Agreements, the North-Ivetnamese tanks entered Saigon, and millions of South-Vietnamese were sentenced to generations of communist tyranny.

The White House then said that it is the fault of the Congress that stopped the military funding. “It was only a poor consolation for Vietnam after betraying Thieu by America and the catastrophe that deviated over our ally. Not to mention Mr. Zelenski and Ukrainians, who must know the history of American promises of peace with honor,” concludes the conservative publication.

There are less bleak analyzes for Ukraine

Other US interpretations are less pessimistic, even from Donald Trump's usual critics.

At CNN, the analyst Fareed Zakharia, even though he called the anchorage summit “embarrassing”, said the good news is that he did not reach an agreement and that President Trump did not abandon Ukraine.

“Mr. Putin has a bigger problem: Mr. Trump did not give up Ukraine”

“Mr. Putin has a bigger problem: Mr. Trump did not give up Ukraine. Also, so far, he has not reduced the American military presence in Europe,” wrote Hanna Notte, Russian policy in The New York Times.

“Mr. Trump sometimes seemed to support the idea of Tucidide that” the powerful do what they can, and the weak suffer what they need, “validating, at first glance, the long -term dream of Mr. Putin that the great powers, of which he considers that Russia is part, can divide the world into spheres of influence.”

“But the Ukraine war remains essentially impossible to win under the conditions imposed by Putin, and Russia, with so many resources invested in it, is forced to withdraw to other parts.”

“And even if the Russian army would achieve another pierce, the Lord Putin could not reach his true goal: the total subjugation of Ukraine in Russia's orbit.