Friday, 15 August 2025

Low Expectations From Putin Trump Summit

Donald Trump said he could end the Russia Ukraine war within 24 hours but here we are 150 days later and still it goes on so that obviously never happened but he could have easily ended both that one and the Israel Palestine conflict over the past few weeks.
Netanyahu and Putin are both wanted for War Crimes by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and he has met both now within the last few weeks and he could have got his goons to grab them and hand them over to the Hague for trial but instead he not only gave his backing (and provided the weapons) for the Israeli genocide to go on, but is widely expected to promise Putin a reward for stopping killing Ukrainians, a nation that Putin invaded.   
That reward is the lifting of sanctions or promising land they currently occupy but we know that like Netanyahu, Putin will play Trump like a very fat piano and make demands that the Ukrainians couldn't possibly agree to and when they say so, will be accused by Russia and America that they have no partners in peace and the killing continues.
Netanyahu has always done the exact same thing as we saw in the peace negotiations a few months ago when Hamas agreed to the terms and Israel then shifted the goalposts so dramatically that the only outcome was for the restarting of the killing.
Neither wants peace until they have reached their goals, in Putin's case it is the annexation of most of Ukraine and the removal of Zelenskyy and replaced with a more Russia friendly President and in Netanyahu's, the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank so he can claim it for Israel.
Trump may pitch himself as a great businessman and negotiator but both the War Criminals involved have run rings around him and they will continue to so i am not expecting much from the summit today in Alaska, the best is the promise that they will hold talks at some point in the future and the worst case scenario is Putin puts his terms to Trump, Trump agrees to them and tells Zelenskyy who says they are unacceptable and Putin goes back to Moscow with a big smile on his face having played Trump for a mug once again.
Hope I am wrong and something is sorted to stop the killing but we have been here too many times before to be optimistic that someone as low IQ as Trump could come out of this with anything other than Ukraine being well and truly shafted again and the ICJ cell remains disappointingly empty.