Posted on 08/14/2025 1:53:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to London on Thursday, a day before a critical U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska.
"Yesterday, together with all partners, today in a bilateral format, we discussed expectations from the meeting in Alaska and possible prospects," Zelenskyy said in a social media post after the meeting. "We also discussed in detail security guarantees that can make peace truly sustainable if the United States still manages to pressure Russia to stop the killings and engage in real meaningful diplomacy. It is important that we can all work together within a coalition of those willing to achieve effective formats for security work."
Zelenskyy's trip to the British capital came a day after he took part in virtual meetings from Berlin with President Trump and the leaders of several European countries. Those leaders said Mr. Trump had assured them he would make it a priority to try to achieve a ceasefire in Ukraine during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Anchorage.
Putin was holding a meeting in Russia on Thursday with members of Russia's leadership to prepare for the Alaska meeting. As part of that preparatory meeting, he said he wanted to discuss the negotiation process with Ukraine and how it was going.
Putin also said he planned "to talk about the stage we are at with the current American administration, which, as everyone knows, is making, in my opinion, quite energetic and sincere efforts to stop the fighting, stop the crisis and reach agreements that are of interest to all parties involved in this conflict."
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Thursday that the Friday meeting between Mr. Trump and Putin in Alaska is expected to begin at around 11:30 a.m. local time on Friday.
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The UK/EU would like to sabotage the Trump/Putin meeting IMO.
“The UK/EU would like to sabotage the Trump/Putin meeting IMO.”
Too late, and Europe knows it. Putin has said some interesting things about his outlook. I’m curious to see how Trump moves forward. There is a lot of negotiation ahead, but we have the Dealmaker.
Zelenskyy, the EU, and the UK remind me of the kids table at Thanksgiving that’s used when there’s not enough room for everyone at the BIG table where the adults eat ...
If Putin is serious about peace then yes Trump is there to negotiate.
“If Putin is serious about peace then yes Trump is there to negotiate.”
The statements from both men tell me they are already a lot further along than the public (including us) knows.
We didn't put the leaves in the BIG table. Kids never caught on.
Still say they should have met at Palin’s house and had her kill and grill up elk steaks. Vlad would have liked that, and he could have kept an eye on the motherland from her house.
"Z" has already said he will give up nothing.
End Game...We're going to put in a line...just like Korea...and we're going to have Western Ukraine and Eastern Ukraine. It's worked for 75 years in Korea.
Then there's East Germany and West Germany.
There just isn't any other alternative.
Obama’s hiding in Starmer’s closet.
Yes, that’s reasonable. But there may be more. I think Putin and Trump are working on a framework that’s larger also. We’ll see.
Odessa and access to the Black Sea needs to be addressed.
There are a lot of "pieces" that will be addressed.
What I do remember from Crimea in 2014 was that the Ukrainians gave up their arms and left Crimea cuz they would not kill their brothers.
“There just isn’t any other alternative. “
Russia could continue to pursue the war.
Thanks for that positive note.
“We didn’t put the leaves in the BIG table. Kids never caught on.”
LOL!
actually, we cousins loved having our own table to talk about stuff privately ...
And in the end it accomplished nothing
Putin got a smiling handshake from Trump, then left.
Yay
That imagery was crushing to the Euros.
Their narrative is that Putin is a sub human animal and should be chained and beaten for his misbehavior.
But what that narrative got instead was Putin walking firmly and with energy, speaking politely, riding in the same car as Trump, and Trump asserting they are on first name basis.
This is crushing to every splashed story about hospital bombings and whatever other propaganda manufactured.
And the whole world saw it. This was not just a positive for Putin. This was victory.
Victory for Putin?
A stalemate
Trump says “There’s no deal until there’s a deal”
So, a big nothing
He's a KGB agent.
I would have said that if he's serious about a deal, I'll be in the same room with Zelensky. And I'll be the mediator.
And we'll agree on a ceasefire.
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