His meeting Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin In Alaska, on Friday night (15.08.2025) it ended with a triumphant sense. However, the real winner of this night is the Russian president.
Since the moment the Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin landed from their airplanes to the air base outside the Akorage of Alaskathe contact of the two leaders was friendly. Donald Trump began applauding Vladimir Putin, while they were exchanging smiles, a shoulder hit and a lively but clearly friendly red carpet discussion, says Politico’s analysis.
The preparation for the summit of the two leaders was accompanied by dozens of unfounded forecasts by officials, diplomats and experts. The fear that Donald Trump would be fooled by Vladimir Putin was and remain intense.
Everyone was thinking that the American would allow his Russian counterpart to do giant steps to subdue Ukraineand dissolve an already fragile western alliance by bringing America to Kiev and its European allies.
Putin seems to have made the most of the meeting, comments on the same medium.
Secured the meeting, despite being Sounded for war crimesand was accepted on American territory as a friend, not as the leader of a state who invaded a dominant neighbor.
And He did all this without agreeing to any significant concession, including a truce, in advance. He left Akoraj without committing a truce, despite the fact that Donald Trump said during a joint press conference that his Russian counterpart was willing to save thousands of lives.
“Obviously not so willing,” Politico says.
According to experienced observers, The conference in Alaska was a huge mistake.
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“The summit has legalized him on the world stage”, commented on one of the commentators.
Certainly, Russia’s Kremlin and State Media have been involved in the presentation of the summit as a lesser issue of Ukraine and more of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, leaders of the great powers, sitting together to decide the form of the world.
Before the summit, Vladimir Putin also received US support for Ukraine’s idea of exchanging peace territories, throwing the “ball” in Kiev.
In his statements at the press conference, Vladimir Putin made every effort to praise Donald Trump for his efforts to end the war.
The Russian leader is smart enough to know that praises to his American counterpart are always accepted with joy, a trick that Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski almost failed to perform at his famous meeting at the Oval Office at the beginning of the year.
But there were no evidence that Vladimir Putin is ready to move away from his main goal – to control Ukraine, a nation that does not even believe that there should be.
This was clear as he talked once again about eliminating the “main causes” of war and referred to “fundamental threats to Russia’s security”, Kremlin terminology to accuse NATO and Europe for the war.
“We have always regarded Ukraine as a brother’s nation,” he said. In other words, a A nation that is part of the construction of the Russian world by Vladimir Putin.
Russian goal with the Alaska Summit was undoubtedly to avoid the challenge of Donald Trump’s rage, To postpone the imposition of more sanctions from western countries, either in Russia or its allies and to continue to do what it wishes.
The Russian president tried to present himself as a constructive partner for peace, saying he hoped that others would not try to prevent the progress for the end of war.
This narrative is a narrative that the Kremlin has instructed the Russian media to emphasize the cover of the summit, according to the independent Meduza media. The Kremlin’s instructions sent to government journalists say they should emphasize Putin’s role in the “defining agenda” on the US -Russia relationship and present Ukraine as irrational and reluctant to negotiate.
This means that Putin is in no hurry to end the war – in fact, this may well endanger his status, as the exit from a war economy would put the prospect of some dangerous socio -political conflict.
And, of course, the extension of the conflict exerts further pressure on the European nations and the transatlantic alliance.