Posted on 08/13/2025 12:53:37 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
President Trump agreed with European leaders including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to red lines for the coming talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and said he hoped to follow up quickly with a trilateral summit with the two warring leaders.
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“President Trump was very clear that the American desire was to obtain a cease-fire at this meeting in Alaska,” Macron told reporters after the meeting.
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While Trump’s decision last week to meet Putin on American soil worried Europeans, trans-Atlantic relations have since warmed. In a flurry of calls and meetings, senior U.S. officials—including Trump, Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio—signaled their readiness to coordinate closely with Europe on securing a cease-fire and a “fair deal” to end the war, according to participants and briefed officials.
European diplomats said they were particularly impressed by Vance, who met with them in England on Saturday. He showed a strong interest in aligning trans-Atlantic positions ahead of the Putin talks and had a detailed understanding of the situation, participants said.
“They are great people who want to see a deal done,” Trump said of his European partners on Truth Social on Wednesday.
European leaders and Zelensky presented Trump with five succinct red lines to carry into the Alaska summit: a cease-fire as a prerequisite for further talks; any territorial discussions to start from the current front lines; binding Western security guarantees that Russia must accept; Ukraine’s participation in the talks; and support from both the U.S. and Europe, including Ukraine, for any deal.
They relayed to Trump that there would be no legal recognition of occupied territories by Ukraine or Europe, but that a recognition of the situation on the ground could be part of a future deal, several participants said.
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Accurate enough to basically correct. Stated in few words, none can do better.
Actually, Putin and Trump are going to discuss the destruction of London’s influence in world politics, trade, finance and making trouble for the two of them.
Trump cannot have MAGA and that so called special relationship with England.
“I see the opposite.”
Of course you do. So do most of us. But we don’t have to try to cajole these people into cooperating. Trump does.
Whatever the EUropean’s think Trump agreed to with them is already moot. Trump is not talking about the same issues with Putin that the EU is concerned with - of course those topics can just be discussed at the meeting Trump is going to attend in Russia with Putin next month.
The first fruits of the meeting will produce a possible announcment that US and Russian direct Air links are re-established.
Return of diplomatic property, resolution of the Obama break with Russia/Trump fixing his part in that and the normalization of diplomatic relations.
The EU will scream like the stuck pigs they are, whinning amongst themselves in the Vassal State Forum at the EU.
While Trump is normalizing diplomatic and trade ties with Moscow, the EU has destroyed their ties with Beijing. You just can’t make this stuff up.
The Brit Deep State will be dealth with more harshly than Putin/Russia. The Brits are more responsible for 300 years of conflicts than Russia. The weight that England/City of London has had in world relations is about to be greatly dimished, forever.
That seems a most reasonable forecast.
Is there a formal transcript out of the WH?
Eurasia Daily-
Deputy commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stormtroopers: The situation is uncontrollable, we are losing the entire Donetsk region
Donetsk in 3 days!
Kursk in 3 days!
What Pokrovsk doink?
There aren't sanctions left that will make a difference that would destroy our economy, which Trump is going to implement.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
Agree completely. Let them spend their blood and treasure, and not ours, on this convoluted mess.
Great point. Have a cheeseburger.
“Do you think Macron knows who she is?”
Candace Owens claims that it was relayed to her by people in the White House that Macron personally asked Trump to get Owens to shut up about his wife (or “wife”).
Globalist Journal is not trustworthy
Thos is speculation porn.
Exactly.
Yeah lol. Roll the dice Europe, arrest Putin if he comes to a peace negotiation. I’ll get some popcorn and watch.
LOL, she is true naming him.
The land that the Palestinians occupy, is their land. They were there before the current Israel.
Good, that’s encouraging.
Good, that’s encouraging.
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