Posted on 08/14/2025 9:50:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the upcoming summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Bessent notes the backseat demands from EU leaders with their position on the Trump negotiation strategy has worn thin amid their hypocrisy. “It’s time to put up or shut up,” Bessent says, when talking about how the EU is still facilitating the economic purchases of Russian energy products, while simultaneously demanding Trump do this and that. WATCH:
I am cautiously optimistic for a positive outcome from this summit.
DETAILS ON THE SUMMIT BELOW
♦ Date: Friday August 15, 2025
♦ Venue: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage, Alaska
♦ Anchorage is 4 hours behind Eastern Time zone.
DELEGATION:
USA President Donald Trump – Russian Federation, President Vladimir Putin
USA Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt – Russian Federation, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov
USA Secretary of State, Marco Rubio – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
USA Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov
USA Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent – Russian Finance Minister, Anton Siluanov
USA Envoy Steve Witkoff – Russian Envoy Kirill Dmitriev
President Trump will depart the White House early Friday morning ET. Trump is expected in Anchorage midafternoon Eastern time on Friday. The initial meeting with Putin is expected to take place at 3:30 pm ET (11:30 am local) with just the two leaders and translators.
Following the meeting, President Trump and President Putin with hold a lunch with members of delegations from both countries. The two leaders then plan to hold a joint press conference following their meeting, White House and Kremlin officials said Thursday morning.
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Amen!
This is sounding more like positioning than making an agreement. Zelinski’s bosses have moved away further away from a deal by having him make new demands before the talks even begin.
Those are very serious delegations.
I do not recall a previous summit that included towers outside foreign affairs.
I don’t like the choice. I just want them to shut up.
Where the hells thee most important person in the world on that list...according to some who post on this site?
Sneaky Snake Lindseed Graham.
To little, very late.
I hate to say it, but anybody trading with Russia and North Korea shouldn’t be in NATO. There is absolutely no reason to protect them at this point. They are perpetuating the Russian aggressive invasion, blocking peace, and endangering everyone in NATO.
I see it now as an European Union problem, not a US problem, if they are going to continue to Trade with Russia and North Korea. Maybe go further and add, Iran, China, Pakistan, and India. I don’t want to see the US commit more to a conflict if the European Union is not concerned about what has happened so far.
And I hate both countries. I hate the Russians for giving Hillary bribe money for Uranium One through the Clinton "foundation". And I hate Ukraine giving the Bidens bribe money by paying Hunter for Burisma. The only reason I'd want to give Ukraine a little wiggle room, if I was Trump, is if the U.S. can get a little something out of it (i.e. minerals / rare earths from Ukraine).
I agree with you that Russia/Ukraine is not the U.S.’s problem.
And I hate both countries. I hate the Russians for giving Hillary bribe money for Uranium One through the Clinton “foundation”. And I hate Ukraine giving the Bidens bribe money by paying Hunter for Burisma. The only reason I’d want to give Ukraine a little wiggle room, if I was Trump, is if the U.S. can get a little something out of it (i.e. minerals / rare earths from Ukraine).
I don’t ‘Hate’ either country. I just feel for the average guy whose farm is destroyed, or family killed, or apartment burned over a STUPID conflict that should have never happened. Maybe I shouldn’t care, it’s far away and all, but I feel for the little people of the world just trying to get by. The little z’s and Vlad the Invaders of the world, not to mention Biden/Obama/Clinton’s don’t care a bit about them. I think Trump does.
On October 1, drivers are going to buy gasoline for their cars.
Most won’t know where it came from and couldn’t care.
The same amount will get bought worldwide, unless “out-of-petrol” signs are posted on pumps somewhere, the EU rations gasoline and diesel fuel, or gasoline taxes are increased.
Congress might raise the gasoline tax by $5/gallon to decrease the demand for Russian crude oil exports by about two million barrels a day,
[Not that I think it should - Russians can get by without cashew nuts from India and chattels from China.]
The Russian crude oil exports will wind up somewhere. They might wind up in Iraq and Iran, which could then export more of their own production, refined or in crude oil form.
The Russian arms factory worker:
1. pays his rent in rubles,
2. gets his potatoes, bread, meat, cheese, vegetables and fruit using rubles,
3. pays his electric, Internet and cellphone bills in rubles,
4. pays for his gasoline in rubles,
5. buys his clothes using rubles, etc.
Little people all over the globe waved flags and “ate up” propaganda presented to them by their government/media complex.
The pied pipers of the global establishment know how to control their children.
[The comment above reminds me.]
December 6
Puccini: LA BOHÈME
December 13
Giordano: ANDREA CHÉNIER
January 10
Bellini: I PURITANI
January 17 at 12:30 p.m.
Bizet: CARMEN
April 11
Mozart: DON GIOVANNI
May 2
Tchaikovsky: EUGENE ONEGIN
May 9
Donizetti: LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT
May 23
Puccini: TURANDOT
https://www.metopera.org/Season/Radio/Saturday-Matinee-Broadcasts/
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