#alaska summit

[superbeans89]

Trumputin is canon, folks

[ratantics]

What if we kissed 💋 😳 during Alaska Summit 🇺🇲 🇷🇺 (and we're both dictators 🤯 👀)

[abbipazienza]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The conservative Wall Street Journal Editorial Board just issued a SCATHING op-ed detailing how Trump failed to get any concessions from Putin while Putin managed to play Trump like a fiddle to get what he wanted:

“It was notable that Mr. Putin spent most of his soliloquy in front of the press flattering Mr. Trump, endorsing the U.S. President’s view that the war would never have happened if Mr. Trump had been in office in 2022, and extolling the possibilities for U.S.-Russia business ties… In that sense the Russian achieved one of his major goals from the summit, which is the start of his rehabilitation as a world leader. The summit ended his isolation from the West, and he gave up nothing for it. He also appears to have gained more time to continue bombing Ukrainian cities and slowly taking more territory. It isn’t clear what Mr. Trump gained. He had told the press that he would be angry if no cease-fire emerged from the parley, but Mr. Trump showed no pique afterward….”

[tomorrowusa]

^^^ Putin told Trump that he was rusty and needed to practice for the next summit.

Trump is Seduced By Summits, but He Failed to Deliver Again in Alaska

The Alaska meeting, which concluded without the Ukraine ceasefire Trump had promised, represents the latest chapter in a troubling pattern: the 45th and 47th president’s persistent confusion of stagecraft for statecraft. Where Reagan walked away from Reykjavik rather than accept a bad deal, Trump seems perpetually seduced by the optics of the moment, the handshake photo, the joint press conference that suggests progress where none exists. Putin emerged from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson having achieved precisely what he came for: legitimacy on American soil, the erosion of Western unity, and a platform to present his territorial demands as reasonable “agreements.” Trump, meanwhile, offered the unconvincing assurance that they had made “many, many points that we agreed on”—diplomatic speak for admitting you’ve been played. [ ... ] Trump approaches these encounters like a real estate developer staging a property showing, focused on creating an atmosphere of possibility rather than nailing down concrete commitments. He mistakes the buzz of activity, the presence of cameras, the gravity of the moment for actual achievement.

The Alaska summit was a shambles in terms of substance. Trump is clearly out of his league on the international stage.

President Zelenskyy is heading to Washington on Monday. This time he's coming with backup in case faux hillbilly J.D. Vance tries to bushwhack him again. In fact, the list of European leaders heading to Washington with Zelenskyy is ballooning.

European leaders to join Ukraine's Zelenskyy for White House meeting with Trump

European and NATO leaders announced Sunday that they'll be joining President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington for crucial talks with President Donald Trump, rallying around the Ukrainian leader after his exclusion from Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The remarkable move — with one European leader after another announcing that they'll be at Zelenskyy's side when he travels to the White House on Monday — was an apparent effort to ensure that the meeting goes better than the last one in February, when Trump berated the Ukrainian president in a heated Oval Office encounter. [ ... ] The European leaders' presence at Zelenskyy's side, demonstrating Europe's support for Ukraine, could potentially help ease concerns in Kyiv and in other European capitals that Ukraine risks being railroaded into a peace deal that Trump says he wants to broker with Russia. It wasn't immediately clear whether all or just some of them would be taking part in the actual meeting with Trump. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on X that she will take part in the talks, "at the request of President Zelenskyy." The secretary-general of the NATO military alliance, Mark Rutte, will also take part in the meeting, his press service said. The office of President Emmanuel Macron announced that the French leader will travel on Monday to Washington "at the side of President Zelenskyy" although it didn't immediately specify that he'll be in the meeting. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will also be part of the European group, but the statement from his office likewise didn't specify that he will be in the talks with Trump.

After the above article was published it was announced that Britain's Sir Keir Starmer will also be in Washington. Names of other leaders keep getting added. This is a remarkable show of support for Ukraine.

[apileofburningcabbage]

Schlocktober Day 3: Nostril Worship

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Today's wonderful pairing is Donald Trump/Vladimir Putin. It's based on their meeting from several hours ago. I'm not sure it tops quesadilla cocksleeve from yesterday, but I'd say it's still pretty fire.

[ivovynckier]

Joe Biden, "the worst president in U.S. history", visited Kiev.

The "stable genius" Donald invited war criminal Putin to Alaska... which he called "Russia".

[millionmovieproject]

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