The Trump Putin Summit is being watched eagerly by everyone. Trump has his own agenda, Putin has his, Zelensky also and so are the Europeans. Trump is not going there just to talk about Ukraine. This is secondary. Trump is going to win over Putin so that he can fight his war with China. Trump will sell out Ukraine for a song, if he can get Putin on his side, temporary stop the war, and naively thinking he could turn Putin against Xi.
Putin's interest is simple and straight forward, nothing new, a neutral Ukraine, keeping all the lands he won, and no NATO expansion, the latter he knows is wishful thinking.
Zelensky the Mickey Mouse still thinks he is in control of Ukraine and wanted a say in the going ons. He wanted to keep his Ukraine and to win the war with or without the support of the Americans. So Mickey Zelensky thinks so, in his fantasy land.
The Europeans have their own hideous agenda. They want the war to go on indefinite, to keep Russia weak and down. Nothing more, nothing less. And they are prepared to put boots on the ground, thinking they can beat the Russians.
With such diverse interests, and contradictory agenda and childish dreams, there is nothing going to come out from the Summit. What is worse is that the starting points of Trump and Zelensky are a joke to start with. Trump's Art of the Deal is to warn and threaten Putin of consequences if Putin did not do what Trump wishes. And Trump's wish of Putin betraying China can only happen if Putin is as stupid as him. So this is a no go.
Zelensky is even more wild. He laid down five conditions for Trump to abide by, as good as dictating terms to Trump. Can you believe that? This Mickey Mouse thinks he can order Trump around, telling him what Trump can or cannot do? Trump is a man that cannot be threatened, unless he is blackmailed, like by Netanyahu. Zelensky is not Netanyahu and did not have all the video's of Trump's and Melanie's private lives to twist Trump's arm.
This Summit is just a deception, optics, when nothing can be achieved and at most a theatre, or a photo op. Putin is not going to give in. Even if Trump were to dump Zelensky wholesale, Putin cannot accept his terms to abandon China, knowing very well that if, after the Americans defeated China, the Americans would come back to grill his balls. And Mickey Zelensky still has some cards to play with the European savages behind him and wanting to continue with the war.