Au Anchorage summit (Alaska), Friday, August 15, Vladimir Putin had exactly what he wanted: he preserved his relationship with Donald Trump, and therefore avoided new sanctions, while obtaining to be able to continue hostilities with Ukraine. He has thus saved time, a time he needs to push the front line as far from west, before freezing it, in the long term, as part of an agreement. The Russian autocrat is not interested in the cost of the conflict and categorically refuses any truce: he is convinced to have enough resources to win a war of wear.
The only currency that Stalin considered it solid, one day wrote Henry Kissinger [diplomate américain, prix Nobel de la paix en 1973], It is the territory. If the Alaska Summit of 2025 has something in common with the 1945 Yalta conference, this is this: the two meetings validated the territorial claims of Russian and Soviet leaders. Also Putin can attribute the Stalin price: he acted in the mind of his predecessor, masterfully manipulating his partners to extend his sphere of influence and control.
Putin seems to have convinced Trump of the possibility of concluding a global peace agreement constantly, nor a truce of any kind, freezing the time the contact line. This means that so far, human beings will continue to die. And that, moreover, as human losses and material destruction form a context that is not very suitable for discussion, the holding of serious negotiations will be delayed and complicated. Including the organization of a meeting – still hypothetical at this stage – with Volodymyr Zelensky. The great hopes of the world collapsed. We are reduced to waiting for Godot.
Chimerical vision
If in anchorage, as some well informed sources claim, Putin really promised Trump that he would not attack anyone else in return for the sale of the Donbass territory – a territory that he has not yet completely conquered – then it is a completely cynical market. A market whose object cannot, obviously, be that of real negotiations with Ukraine.
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