Challenge or nostalgia? THE Sergei Lavrovhead of Russian diplomacy, caught his eyes on his arrival in Alaska on Friday (15.08.2025), where he accompanies the Vladimir Putin For the meeting with Donald Trump.
Upon his arrival in Alaska, in the context of meeting Donald Trump With Vladimir Putin, under his black vest, Sergei Lavrov wore a white sweatshirt, from which the letters “CC” looked, part of the acronym “CCCP”, the name of the USSR in Russian.
As Politico recalls in its analysis, Today’s Russian regime often exploits the memory of the Soviet Union to serve political and expansive goals. Vladimir Putin himself described in 2005 the dissolution of the USSR as “The greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century”.
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This reference has been repeatedly linked to the full -scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the war that continues to this day.
As a former officer of her KGB In eastern Germany in the 1980s, the Putin is well aware of the methods of the Soviet mechanism. In Kiev and in the capitals of the Allies they are afraid that he may use them to influence Donald Trump, who has appeared stricter in recent weeks.
Donald Trump estimated that meeting in Alaska has ‘25% chances’ To fail, so he will give a press conference on his own to announce that “the war will continue”, according to CNN.
Asked upon arrival of this estimate, Lavrov avoided speculating: “We never try to predict the results. What we know is that we have arguments to testify and that our position is clear. Much has already been achieved, “he told a Russian journalist.