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The original was posted on /r/ukraine by /u/jesterboyd on 2025-08-09 09:00:27+00:00.
Trump’s narcissism and Putin-worship are unsurpassed!
To offer a war criminal a meeting on his own territory, and even on that part of it that was Russian, is not only the height of geopolitical ignorance, but also an unheard-of self-abasement of the United States, which Trump supposedly wants to make great (MAGA) again!
And it’s not that the meeting place gives Rosagitprop a pass for a new portion of propaganda poison for the public horde under the inspiring slogan “Crimea is ours, Alaska will be ours again!”. It’s not that Trump’s personal capitulation to Putin will be presented as a strategic retreat of the West – “the enemy is defeated and flees!”, “Today in Anchorage, tomorrow in Fort Ross, the day after tomorrow – in Washington!”.
In fact, Trump, with his thoughtless actions – from the position of real, and not imaginary, interests of the United States, taken separately, Trump, is making a pass at the Coalition of Evil led by China, in which Putin plays the role of Xi’s orderly. After the probable meeting in Anchorage, Putin and Xi will triumphantly demonstrate in Tianjin at the SCO summit on August 31-September 1 that “changes are happening now that haven’t happened in a hundred years. And together we are promoting these changes.” This phrase belongs to Xi at the end of his visit to Moscow on March 21, 2023. Well, the military parade in Beijing on September 3 will demonstrate who rules the world and that the West, represented by the United States, has been thrown onto the global sidelines, because China’s vassal is already negotiating not somewhere on neutral territory, but on the territory of the enemy. Especially since Xi, not Trump, emerged the winner in the “tariff duel.”
And if someone in Washington is flattering themselves with the thought that the revived Russian-American contacts will block the access of the US strategic enemy to the Arctic through the Bering Strait, in fact, Beijing and Moscow see it differently. When Russia gets Alaska back from the US, the path to the Arctic will belong to China. As is well known from Sun Tzu's treatise "war is a path of cunning and deception". China has a refined art of cunning and deception and has strategic vision and patience. Unlike the Trump-heads, who need a momentary media effect and a Nobel Prize for self-satisfaction.
Putin's "sweet candy" for Trump on joint development of Arctic resources is a trap for Trump, who lives with dreams of a Big Deal with Russia, which "will bring many billions of dollars." It is no coincidence that one of the largest deposits of rare earth metals in the Republic of Sakha, Tomtorske, was recently transferred not to Norilsk Nickel, but to ... Rosneft (!) and Sechin, who already had experience in partnerships with American majors in the Arctic, although nothing came of it. The trap should look attractive, there should be cheese in it :) And Trump is already going to swallow it.
I will not mention here that the "proposals for peace in Ukraine" due to neglect of territories and borders, brutally and finally destroy the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act of the CSCE of 1975 (its 50th anniversary on August 1 was remembered by few) and other fundamental documents on which peace in Europe after the WWI was based.
More to come...
(c) Michael Gonchar
