Posted on 08/13/2025 3:11:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
And it’s not where Putin wants to be.
Putin has decided to talk peace with Trump while he dominates the battlefield in eastern Ukraine. His troops are closing in on Donetsk’s main urban centers, whose capture would give him total control of Donbas, where he already fully occupies the province of Luhansk. But it could be looking to get the best deal possible while he is ahead.
The prolonged sieges and intense urban warfare that capturing Donetsk’s cities of Kramatorsk, Kostyantynivka, and Sloviansk with a combined population of one quarter million and fortified by Ukrainian military engineers during months, risks dangerously overstretching his army and straining Russia’s overheated economy, whose oil revenues have dropped by 18.5 percent, due as much to sanctions as to persistent Ukrainian done strikes against refineries. (RELATED: Putin Caught in an Expanding Spiderweb)
These factors, combined with the secondary sanctions that the White House has just announced against India to start blocking Russian oil exports through third countries, are what’s driving him to meet Trump in Alaska this Friday. It’s Putin who requested face-to-face discussions with Trump, according to U.S. officials who say that he instantly agreed to hold the summit on U.S. territory in an unexpected show of deference that indicates much eagerness on his part.
When talk of peace talks began soon after Trump took office last February, The American Spectator noted a brief statement by Putin saying that negotiations would start in “six months.” That was how long he might have projected it would take for his army to enter Donetsk’s main urban centers, containing Ukraine’s military logistical hub in Donbas and important industrial facilities and rare earth mines. (RELATED: Zelensky Has Left Ukraine With a Poor Hand)
Time is now up, and Russia has cut the main arteries connecting Kramatorsk and Kostyantynivka...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
“Trump Has Putin Where He Wants Him”
Technically Trump COULD throw Putin into the brig and not let him out until he leaves Ukraine.
While the Zeepers would no-doubt rejoice, so would the insects.
” throw Putin into the brig and not let him out until he leaves Ukraine.”
That’s not a bad idea. Welcome to the ‘Hotel Alaska’.
Or it could be because Alaska is so close to Russia and so far away that it deters Zelensky or Eurotrash leaders showing up.
Putin made his offer in writing in 2024. It hasn’t been answered in writing. I don’t think Putin is going negotiate with himself.
Putin has agreed to meet in Alaska because he’s got an international arrest warrant out on him in 128 countries. He can travel from Russia to Alaska without passing through another country.
He can even claim he never left Russia to meet with Trump.
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