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Negotiations in Anchorage
2025-08-17
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:

See today also here, here, and here. Yesterday here and the day before the summit here
[ColonelCassad] Anchorage Talks

The Anchorage talks were an obvious success for Russia, which, by the very fact of these talks, finally destroyed the strategy of diplomatic isolation of Russia. The West had been pursuing this strategy against it for years. Now it has become obvious to everyone that it has led the globalists into a dead end, since they were the ones who found themselves isolated from the talks.

Most of the agreements reached, as well as unresolved issues, remained outside the public sphere amid a sea of rumors and speculation. From the sparse statements of the parties, it is obvious that the parties reached certain agreements on a number of issues, but on a number of other issues (obviously related to Ukraine), they have not yet been able to come to a common denominator.

Nevertheless, both sides interpret this result as a diplomatic success. Noteworthy is Trump's invitation to Minsk and Moscow, against the backdrop of the option of a trip to China in early September. Based on Lukashenko's statements, Trump has already agreed to travel to Minsk with his family, and based on Trump's statements, he is interested in the offer to come to Moscow.

But Trump views these trips as a potential opportunity to organize a trilateral summit with the participation of the cocaine Fuhrer. For example, according to the scheme - the next round of negotiations takes place soon enough in Moscow, after which Trump and Putin go to Minsk, and there, with the mediation of Lukashenko, the cocaine Fuhrer signs some conditions (although his signature is obviously legally null and void and can be easily disavowed).

It is important to understand that Russia, when it agrees on something with the United States, is responsible only for itself, and the United States is actually conducting separate negotiations, since they formally represent not only themselves, but also the EU and Ukraine. To whom Trump must convey and impose the agreements reached.

Because in addition to Trump's consent to something, the European satellites and Kiev puppets must do the same. The United States has the ability to force them. If for some reason they cannot/do not want to impose the agreements reached with the Russian Federation on them, then they can, of course, be easily sabotaged.

Well, as for the goals of the SVO, it is unclear from the public part of the negotiations whether there are already agreements reached that will allow the Russian Federation to achieve some goals by non-military means.

At the same time, the official position remains unchanged - the goals of the SVO must be achieved, the Russian Federation will not change its constitutional territories, the conditions put forward by Putin in the summer of 2024 are still in force, if they are not accepted, the next conditions will be worse.

And at the same time, Russia is sending signals that it is not against peace, but if the enemy does not want it, then Russia is ready to continue fighting and achieve its goals by military means, which is well facilitated by the August tempo of operations, which will peak in 2025.

So, overall, the summit is truly historic on the one hand and reflects the advent of a new world, but it has not become a "new Yalta" or "new Malta". If the negotiations between Trump and Putin continue, it will be perceived as a kind of first formal step towards transforming the relationship between the US and Russia. If everything fades and fails, then Anchorage 2025 will be viewed as an unsuccessful attempt and a missed chance to de-escalate the current Cold War of the West against Russia with the risks of a nuclear war.

So far, events are developing rather according to a moderately optimistic scenario. Trump, in the public arena after negotiations with Putin, began to tilt the cocaine Fuhrer, declaring that he needs to make concessions (which are fatal for him). Whether this is really so - we will see from Trump's negotiations with vassals and satellites, as well as from a possible repeat meeting between Trump and Putin.

Posted by:badanov

#3  I didn't see this kurva on the list.

Posted by: DooDahMan   2025-08-17 11:34  

#2  European leaders including Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron to join Zelensky in Washington for Trump summit after US President's Alaska showdown
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-08-17 11:26  

#1  Can you imagine any other politicians picking Alaska and a summit venue? I cannot.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-08-17 08:37  

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