U.S.-China Meeting (March 2021): Anchorage hosted a high-level diplomatic meeting between senior U.S. and Chinese officials, including U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. This summit was notable for its tense exchanges, with both sides publicly airing grievances, marking a significant moment in U.S.-China relations.
Nixon-Emperor Hirohito Meeting (1971): President Richard Nixon met with Emperor Hirohito of Japan in Anchorage, Alaska, during a stopover. This was the first time a Japanese emperor had visited the United States, and the meeting focused on strengthening U.S.-Japan ties.
Reagan-Pope John Paul II Meeting (1984): President Ronald Reagan met with Pope John Paul II in Fairbanks, Alaska, during a papal stopover. The meeting was largely ceremonial but underscored Alaska’s role as a convenient location for international leaders en route between continents.
The Wytkoff meeting in Moscow already decided most of the issues. You’ll notice how carefully details of those proposals and discussions have been kept under wraps.
Reports have already come out that Trump shared that information with Zelensky and Europe, but there have been no loud leaks. There have been several media reports about what was in the conversation, but they all disagree with each other. The leaks probably don’t really exist and it is all speculation.
If Trump and Putin agreed to keep the details quiet so that Europe and Zelensky could not attack and undercut the issues on which the two sides were in agreement, then it would not make sense for the announcement that Trump had already talked with Europe about the details. Or more likely he did make those phone calls and shared almost nothing, but calls it details.
The CEO of Russia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund seems to have become pals with Wytkoff. He is an oil guy. Wytkoff is real estate. Much like the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund it has always been understood that the asset totals include the oil underground but never adds numbers describing that. So these two guys are talking money and they talk it in the context of looking past the chasm. This is what happens after the war is settled and that is what happens after the war is settled.
Obviously this has a fundamental presumption that all sanctions are eliminated.
This would be one of those details that never got discussed with Europe.