Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

Saturday, August 16, 2025

About that summit between Trump and Putin:

 


It was a big nothing burger.  Putin came out the winner.  He, an international war criminal, was warmly greeted by the American president on American soil   Disgraceful.


And no ceasefire, as Trump demanded.  All he got from Putin was a knowing smirk  





NYTimes:  

Mr. Putin scored a win even before he arrived in the United States. After years of being ostracized by the West, he returned to American soil for the first time in a decade, welcomed by American fighter jets, a red carpet and a ride in the Beast, Mr. Trump’s armored car.

And Mr. Putin secured another victory when it concluded, departing the United States without making any major concessions while maintaining a warm rapport with Mr. Trump. During the last several months, the American president had been growing frustrated with Mr. Putin, seeing the Russian leader as the hurdle to a cease-fire and an eventual peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.

6 comments:

Shaw Kenawe said...

“But in the meantime, Mr. Putin has accomplished a major war goal: He has gotten out of the box of sanctioned autocrat, and was greeted by the president of the United States as a peacemaker. He has bought time. He has defused all that talk of sanctions on his oil sector. And he gave up nothing.

It’s unclear how long any of that will work. But it was impressive diplomacy for less than four hours on American ground.” —David Sanger


David E. Sanger has covered five American presidents and traveled to Anchorage for the meeting between President Trump and Pre

BB-Idaho said...

Another chapter in 'Art of the Deal.

Les Carpenter said...

There will he no end and the war criminal Putin knows how to play the FOTUS like a fiddle.

Les Carpenter said...

Inept, incompetent, corrupt... the only three strengths of the FOTUS.

Anonymous said...

Donald Trump needed a win to soothe his Epstein-savaged ego. Instead he was dominated on the world stage by a Russian war criminal.

But a collapsing narcissist can never accept defeat.
So we will all pay for his failure.

Shaw Kenawe said...

“The Artlessness of the Deal”. More like it.