14/08/2025
An article by Journalist Omar Taal.
President Putin is set to touch down in Anchorage, Alaska, in the United States for the first time in ten years ahead of a meeting with President Trump what the White House describes as a ‘listening exercise,’ over the war on Ukraine—where President Zelensky of Ukraine has not been invited and, brushed of any concession of Ukrainian territories to President Putin.
Tomorrow’s talks in the former Russian colony sold to America in 1865, will not be a usual diplomatic bromance between Presidents Putin and Trump as was in Helsinki in 2018, rather a blunt conversation to end nearly four years of war. Alaska’s talks will be more of a dance show—as both leaders will dance around the subject of ceasefire.
Will President Putin agree to what President Trump has to say tomorrow with or without concession from Kyiv?
President Putin is not a typical leader of the global south—who believes in Washington’s lectures on democracy and human rights: Putin’s presidency runs from five America presidents, each started as a show of thumbing his nose at critics but floats any idea of peace. Putin has shown no signs of trust with American leaders: from Presidents Clinton, to Bush in Slovenia, to Obama at the Kremlin, to Trump in Helsinki and Biden in Zurich. It was more of a cosmetic talks on the side of President Putin whilst American leaders used it as a bargaining chips to blunt Russia’s momentum.
All through the presidency of Putin is aimed at remaking Russia as another Soviet Union of the 21st century, using war and power to override his perceived nemesis on the global stage: calling Ukraine as one Russian entity on the basis of a geographical anomaly.
The past Washington administrations have all failed the litmus tests of Putin’s resolves—as sanctions have not deterred the Kremlin leader in his pursuit of building a Russian empire through wars on former nations of USSR.
Tomorrow’s talks in America’s coldest State, in the arctic circle, is a well choreographed meeting with a high tendency of been a nonstarter too, as multiple subjects could surface—including NATO’s position in this conflicts. The bar to reach a ceasefire agreement should be set low.
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