In the night between Friday 15 August and Saturday 16 August The US president Donald Trump and the Russian one Vladimir Putin met in the US military base of Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaskafor a summit lasted about three hours: Objective stated, but optimistic, looking for an agreement to end the war in Ukrainea mission that Donald Trump at the beginning of the mandate had announced to bring to conclusion in a few days.
The reserved meeting, which did not participate in representatives of Ukraine or the European Union, ended with a joint conference in which the two leaders exchanged compliments and apparent courtesies, but from which it was understood that an agreement did not emerge Even if it is not known with what the two said exactly.
Trump made implicitly understand in the press conference that an agreement was not found, while defining the “extremely productive” meeting and talking about significant steps forward without explicit more detailed content.
There are many international analysts who read a moral victory of Putin welcomed as a head of state and the substantial defeat of Trump who did not even get the ceased the fire that seemed the minimum goal on the eve
.“The images from Anchorage”, commented Eleonora Tafuro Ambrosetti, researcher at the Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia Central Central, on the Institute for International Political Studies, “return the idea of a Putin that dominated the scene and a reticent and vague Trump, also in giving information on the summit. It is a worrying fact. The expectations were not very high, also because Trump himself had declared that it was a cognitive summit to probe the situation. The fact, however, that they have not mentioned even one of the concrete points subject to discussion is very worrying. It will be necessary to wait for Trump to feel the allies to know something more, but at the moment the image that emerges is that of a proof of Putin strength, which will resell it well both internally and in the global south, and a hole in the water for Trump ».
