The upcoming summit between Russian president Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska is creating a lot of buzz.
Foreign governments, as well as the MSM and armies of social media commentators and prognosticators are engaging in all sorts of speculations, predictions, sensationalism, and a cornucopia of expectations.
That this is a plot to kill Putin.
That Russians will give in.
That Putin got scared by Trump with his tariff threats.
That there will be a ceasefire.
That Putin will meet with zelstein
That the Russian economy will collapse, if Putin does not go there and give Trump, EU, and Kiev what they want.
But all these predictions are just white noise.
No one should expect any breakthroughs or major deals.
Russian demands have not changed, and won't change. The Russian government has stated its conditions ad nauseam since 2021 and they remain the same.
-No NATO membership for ukraine
-Neutral, non-aligned status for ukraine
-No nuclear weapons
-Demilitarization of the ukrainian armed forces, with only minimal capabilities allowed to maintain internal order
-Denazification, and respect for Russian culture, language, and religion in ukraine
Russian president Vladimir Putin will come to the table with all the advantages, while Trump can only issue empty and useless threats and has no leverage. All that he has is a big bag of bluffs.
Trump initiated the call to Putin after certain recent developments made the US regime realize that things are heading in a bad direction for ukraine and NATO as a whole.
Russian gains on the battlefield have seen numerous localities taken under Russian control. The city of Chasov Yar has been liberated by Russian forces, and Pokrovsk is about to be liberated soon.
Ukrainian forces have no more fighters to spare, and their industrial base has been decimated.
Due to the US deployment of medium-range missiles around China and Russia's far east, Russian has ended its self-imposed moratorium on the deployment of medium-range ballistic missiles by putting the Oreshnik missiles into service and is currently mass-producing them, totally changing the balance of power in the world in its favor. Russians have also announced that there are other weapons that have not been named or shown yet that will be deployed.
No western country, including the US, even compares to the missile and weapons technology Russia possesses. No western country is even in the same league as Russia is in the realm of missile design.
In addition, Russia, China, India and Brazil have all told Trump to go pound sand as far as his tariff threats go.
Trump must have realized that his bluffs have been called, and he knows that he must back-pedal, or else the already beleaguered US economy will suffer further traumas. Hence why he asked for this meeting with President Putin in Alaska.
This meeting is not only about ukraine. It is about other more important things that have to do with a new global arrangement, and the EU isn't a player here. Kiev doesn't even register.
Nevertheless, the Russians cannot trust the US. All Russian demands must be met, or else the meeting will end like the one between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un did some years ago during Trump's first presidency. This failure was spearheaded by the notorious neo-con scumbag John Bolton, whom Trump appointed as a national security advisor, then later fired. But the damage was done. North Korea went on to develop nuclear weapons and now remains untouchable.
If Trump once again listens to bad advice from incompetent and ignorant neo-cons, and doesn't accommodate Russia, he will be humiliated even more, and the US will be weakened further by Russian advances in the military, economic, and strategic spheres.
Putin may already have a Plan B to counter any of Trump's tariffs, if they materialize, by harnessing the power of all BRICS nations Trump is targeting that will exponentially accelerate the demise of the dollar and put the US economy in serious peril. Brazilian, Indian, and Chinese governments have already had a talk with Putin. So something was planned.
Donnie better tread carefully, because for all his bluff and bluster, he is out of his element here.