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US President Donald Trump jetted into Alaska for a “make-or-break” summit about the war in Ukraine with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and left with nothing to show for it.
There will be no ceasefire.
There is no agreement.
There isn’t even a plan.
For a man who likes to brand himself as a master negotiator, it was humiliating.
Trump boasted beforehand that there was only a “25 per cent chance of failure.” In fact, it was a 100 per cent bust.
Putin, on the other hand, got exactly what he wanted: the prestige of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the US president on American soil without conceding a single thing.
To add insult to injury, the Russian leader dominated the stage during their so-called “press conference,” while Trump looked like a guest at his own event.
Both men walked out without taking questions, leaving reporters shouting into the void.
This wasn’t diplomacy – it was theatre, and bad theatre at that.
Ukrainians may breathe a sigh of relief that Trump didn’t stitch them up on the spot, but they won’t be reassured.
Trump has already tried to bully Kyiv into signing over huge mineral rights to US corporations in exchange for “support.” That hardly makes him a neutral broker.
And his refusal to follow through on his threats of “severe consequences” for Russia — now punted vaguely down the road “two or three weeks” — looks more like cowardice than strategy.
Putin has not budged an inch.
He still insists the “root causes” of the war must be addressed — Kremlin code for dismantling Ukraine’s independence.
Three years of Western deadlines and empty threats have done nothing to shift him, and Trump just added another empty threat to the pile.
What did Alaska achieve?
Nothing for peace.
Nothing for Ukraine.
Nothing for the ordinary Russians and Americans caught in the fallout.
It gave Putin his propaganda moment, and it showed the world — yet again — that Donald Trump is a showman, not a statesman.
The “deal maker” can’t make a deal.
As long as that remains the case, the bloodshed in Ukraine will continue.
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Trump’s Alaska flop: a “deal maker” who can’t make a deal
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US President Donald Trump jetted into Alaska for a “make-or-break” summit about the war in Ukraine with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and left with nothing to show for it.
There will be no ceasefire.
There is no agreement.
There isn’t even a plan.
For a man who likes to brand himself as a master negotiator, it was humiliating.
Trump boasted beforehand that there was only a “25 per cent chance of failure.” In fact, it was a 100 per cent bust.
Putin, on the other hand, got exactly what he wanted: the prestige of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the US president on American soil without conceding a single thing.
To add insult to injury, the Russian leader dominated the stage during their so-called “press conference,” while Trump looked like a guest at his own event.
Both men walked out without taking questions, leaving reporters shouting into the void.
This wasn’t diplomacy – it was theatre, and bad theatre at that.
Ukrainians may breathe a sigh of relief that Trump didn’t stitch them up on the spot, but they won’t be reassured.
Trump has already tried to bully Kyiv into signing over huge mineral rights to US corporations in exchange for “support.” That hardly makes him a neutral broker.
And his refusal to follow through on his threats of “severe consequences” for Russia — now punted vaguely down the road “two or three weeks” — looks more like cowardice than strategy.
Putin has not budged an inch.
He still insists the “root causes” of the war must be addressed — Kremlin code for dismantling Ukraine’s independence.
Three years of Western deadlines and empty threats have done nothing to shift him, and Trump just added another empty threat to the pile.
What did Alaska achieve?
Nothing for peace.
Nothing for Ukraine.
Nothing for the ordinary Russians and Americans caught in the fallout.
It gave Putin his propaganda moment, and it showed the world — yet again — that Donald Trump is a showman, not a statesman.
The “deal maker” can’t make a deal.
As long as that remains the case, the bloodshed in Ukraine will continue.
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