As expected, there was never going to be a deal in Alaska. Now, we will wait for Trump to hit Putin with 'serious consequences' that he threatened earlier, if he really dares to. Or should we again expect another 90 days reprieve for Russia, to be shrank to 10 -12 days again under pressure? TACO will do what he does best- chickening out once again and still boasting with cluck, cluck, cluck.
But Trump is already gloating about a 'nice productive' meet, whatever that means in Trump's terminology, when he has realistically failed to snatch a deal to end the conflict. Trump has no more runways left for his gloating with grand-sounding words like nice, great, big, beautiful, constructive and now productive all of which people are getting sick and tired of swallowing.
Putin is asking Trump to meet again in Moscow. Now, let us be honest. Meeting for another ten times is not going to achieve anything. Kim Jong Un knows it after two meetings with Trump. At best it is going to improve Trump's chances of hijacking the Nobel Peace Prize. This is what Trump is aiming for, nothing else.
There are very substantive issues that cannot be resolved, the main one is of the territories that Russia has captured, which is never going to be returned to Ukraine. After all the sacrifices, Putin is going to lose his credibility if he were to give them up.
Now, Putin is warning the Europeans in NATO not to try to 'torpedo' the meeting by resorting to sabotage of the effort made in Alaska, as they did at the start of the Ukraine War. Some people are calling this meeting in Alaska just another 'Minsk version 3' following two others that were never honored by NATO. Let us wait and see how the situation will evolve.
But let us be honest. No peace deal can be achieved within a four-party quartet having different agendas - Russia, USA, Ukraine and the EU. It is an exercise in futility with sides trying to antagonize each other, just perceptively playing a game.
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