A B-2 bomber escorted by four F-22 flew the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska: strength signal towards Moscow and warning on the future of Ukraine
There are speeches and messages that we will never know about the summit between Trump and Putin that took place yesterday in Alaska. The best informed colleagues, closer to the “Potus” and the US channels, as well as present at the historical event albeit without being able to formulate questions, speak of the next steps of this complicated peace process. For example, colleague Oliver Carroll de The Economist writes a possible ceasefire to meet the meeting in between Trump. Putin and Zelensky. And also of the fact that Zelensky should present himself to the White House next Monday to listen to what Donald Trump has to report.
No formal agreement
There was no longer to expect from this meeting, since to put an end to the clashes, all the conditions were missing. From what we know there have been no delegations that in advance and in advance they agreed on the fundamental points, there were no documents to be signed or large ads to be made. A tycoon message was probably escaped non-technical to Putin: the low altitude and slow flight of the two presidents by an invisible B-2 bomber escorted by four F-22 Raptor fighters, how to say that the maximum honor is made to the president of the Russian Federation but at the same time it is reminded of that from that basis to the Russian territory it takes a few minutes of flight by the most lethal assets available to the aviation available to the aviation available US.
Biden’s legacy and Trump’s strategy
Certainly the American administration until the new mandate of Trump had shown that he did not have the cards to exert sufficient pressure to make his interlocutors change his opinion, and this is probably the real and indisputable success of yesterday’s summit: reset the diplomatic disasters of Joe Biden forever and pulling a row by taking up the role of protagonist of peace. Although Trump does not want to commit himself against Russia because he is much more worried about commercial agreements with Europe rather than war in Ukraine; By now it provides less weapons than united Europe that instead has increased them, but buying them largely by him. His point marked him without making mistakes the shot he had available.
Zelensky and the European Commission
Now the second “ball” is in the hands of Zelensky, while the third is in those of the von der Leyen commission who will have to decide whether to change the path by showing more flexibility to dreams to annex Ukraine in the Union or prove to be unnecessarily rigid towards Russia by continuing to argue that Ukraine Na does – for now symbolically – already part. However, to recognize that the annexation of Kiev to the EU should also be discussed with Moscow would be to disavow what has been supported so far and give up its political line and say goodbye from the economic affairs promised by Zelensky making a complete fool on the ethical level.
Internal priorities and global scenarios
Trump knows perfectly perfectly that this is the last attempt he can do, then he will have to deal with the internal troubles of the USA and the external ones. The former concern the implementation of the Maga Plan (to make America still large), the commercial balances between imports and exports; The external ones concern the tensions between China and the allies of the Pacific, Taiwan, Philippines and Australia. But precisely the sorceress in order to be concrete needs military sales to Europe.
The parallel top of Cheelinging
All while at the almost contemporary Cheesening summit (Great Britain), the representatives of France, Germany, Poland, Finland and Italy met the vice of the White House James David Vance by coming to know the US-USSR meeting remembering that there can be no agreement without Ukrainian consensus because the Ukrainians are European.
The last move in Brussels
And since Putin and his minister Lavrov are old foxes of the Gromiko school, they know very well that without Washington on Kiev there are no progress but that without the Europeans the Americans cannot conclude anything concrete. And it is difficult – but not impossible – that Kiev can accept exchanges of territories to overcome the desire to have an armed belt to protect from Russia that provides for NATO or European soldiers. So the third ball is in the hands of Brussels, but it will not be an easy shot, Putin a thing in Brussels said it: “He does not put the sticks in the wheels”.
