THE August 15, 2025 ‘Summit’ between United States President Donald Trump and Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin failed to reach any agreement on a “ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine but resulted to the total collapse of the West’s narrative that “Russia is isolated” in the world stage for its launch of an ‘SMO’ (Special Military Operation) against the Nazi regime in Ukraine in February 2022.
The summit in Anchorage was held on the initiative of Trump to save face and extricate himself from his earlier threat of further sanctions against Russia should the latter ignore his warning for a ceasefire by August 8. His announcement of the summit with Putin made on the same day, effectively erased his deadline for the ceasefire. Both leaders had their first summit in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018, during the first term of Trump.
Even before his election, Trump bragged he can end the war in Ukraine in “24 hours,” blaming his predecessor, Joe Biden and the Democrats, for the conflict that has dragged on for more than 3 years now.
Under pressure from the ‘Deep State’ dominant in the political leadership in the United States and Europe, Trump, on July14, warned Russia to conclude a ceasefire with Ukraine “within 50 days” or face additional sanctions. His threat failed to impress Moscow, however.
In his Twitter (X) account the next day, Dmitri Medvedev, former president of Russia and Deputy Chair of Russia’s Security Council branded the warning as a “theatrical ultimatum,” ending his post with, “Russia didn’t care.”
Since the ‘Maidan Color Revolution’ in Ukraine in 2014 financed and backed by Western Imperialists headed by the United States, Nazi forces (Banderites/Azov) in Ukraine have been massacring the Russian-speaking people in the eastern part of the country.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reported that between 2014 and 2022, on the eve of the SMO, more than 14,000 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine, majority of them of Russian ethnicity.
The situation did not change but only got worse with the election in 2019 of Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian groomed by Deep State agents to do their biddings in Ukraine.
Russia is most sanctioned country
Since the SMO, the Biden administration took the leading role in herding Western Europe into imposing more sanctions against Russia in order to cripple its economy and isolate it diplomatically.
Russia, is today, the most sanctioned country in the world at 23,960 sanctions based on the compilation of the website, ‘Castellum.AI.’
With the strategic aim of defeating Russia using Ukraine in their proxy war, Western Imperialism subsequently plan to subdivide Russia into several small states that they can dominate, exploit and plunder.
Despite their combined effort, Russia remains strong, united, and stable. According to the World Bank, while the Russian economy contracted by minus 1.4 percent (-1.4 percent) in 2022 due to the sanctions and the start of the SMO, it rebounded to 4.1 percent in 2023 and to 4.3 percent last year.
Alaska Summit saved Trump; NATO ‘ceasefire’ gambit kaput
Increasing his threat, Trump, during his visit to Ireland on July 28, shortened the ceasefire deadline from 50 days to “10 to 12 days.” He also warned that countries that continue to trade with Russia, particularly India and China, would also be sanctioned.
Russia, India, and China are founders of the ‘BRICS’ economic alliance, along with Brazil and South Africa.
However, Trump’s rushed pronouncement of additional sanctions targeting Russia and its fellow BRICS members are without dire consequences for the US economy and its geo-strategic aims.
The US economy is largely dependent on Chinese inputs while it wants to use India as a leverage against China and Iran.
China has made it clear that it is no longer afraid to confront US Imperialism in any sphere while India is also unafraid to break its ties with Russia where it buys its oil needs on the cheap, thus ensuring the growth of its own economy.
On a bind of his own making, the Alaska Summit, has been seen as a “patch job” for Trump. It entailed the shortest preparation time—one week– for a summit meeting between the heads of the world’s two nuclear superpowers.
The summit also put to naught NATO/EU’s latest gambit of using Trump to force Russia to agree to an “unconditional ceasefire” and the freezing of hostilities along the entire line of contact to save Ukraine from total military defeat.
As the EU formulated, the ceasefire would enable them to openly put “boots on the grounds” of Ukraine in the guise of a “peacekeeping force.” This would also justify them in introducing new weapons to be used against Russia as majority of those they have sent in the last 3 years have been either destroyed or ended up as “trophies of war” that are now on display at a public military park in Moscow.
However, after their talks lasting more than 3 hours, Trump agree to drop the ceasefire demand and instead work for a peace agreement based on addressing the “root causes” of the conflict as elaborated by Putin on so many occasions.
Before and after the summit, Trump also said Ukraine must consider the surrender of its territories that are already under effective Russian control in exchange for a lasting peace agreement.