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View from Washington: The Alaska summit result – push for a comprehensive settlement

12:10 19.08.2025

View from Washington: The Alaska summit result – push for a comprehensive settlement

If you read the headlines in American and European newspapers you would conclude that the Alaska Summit failed. It did not. Washington changed direction and abandoned its support for a ceasefire, stresses Stephen Bryen, a former U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Here is Mr. Trump's official statement: “A great …

Three states to deploy hundreds of national guard troops to Washington DC

12:09 19.08.2025

Three states to deploy hundreds of national guard troops to Washington DC

The Republican governors of West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio announced Saturday they will send National Guard troops to Washington, DC, in an escalation of President Donald Trump’s efforts to federally take over law enforcement in the city, CNN reports. West Virginia’s governor said his state was sending 300 to …

SCMP: EU diplomats mull skipping China military parade over Putin’s attendance

12:08 19.08.2025

SCMP: EU diplomats mull skipping China military parade over Putin’s attendance

Post learns European missions in Beijing are especially troubled by Russian leader’s presence, ‘The South China Morning Post’ informs. European envoys in Beijing are discussing plans to skip China’s massive military parade next month after considering the attendance of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the possible participation of Russian troops, …

View from Washington: Why Trump gets it right on Ukraine peace

13:39 18.08.2025

View from Washington: Why Trump gets it right on Ukraine peace

Most of the Western commentary on the Alaska summit is criticizing President Trump for precisely the wrong reason. The accusation is that by abandoning his call for an unconditional ceasefire as the first step in peace talks, Trump has surrendered a key position and “aligned himself with Putin.” This is …

WSJ: How will the war in Ukraine end? Two scenarios

11:43 18.08.2025

WSJ: How will the war in Ukraine end? Two scenarios

The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska is over, and peace in Ukraine isn’t yet nigh. But the two most likely endings to the Russian invasion are coming into view. Ukraine could lose land but survive as a secure and sovereign, if shrunken, nation state. Alternatively, it could lose both land and …

View from London: Zelensky is summoned to White House

11:42 18.08.2025

View from London: Zelensky is summoned to White House

Ukraine's future as a sovereign nation is hanging in the balance after the superpower summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Europe powerlessly looks on as Ukraine's President is summoned to White House amid fears he'll be forced to surrender land for fragile peace deal. Critics warned that other world …

Europe reacts to the Alaska Summit – none of the “Biggies” like it

11:41 18.08.2025

Europe reacts to the Alaska Summit – none of the “Biggies” like it

Here is the Western European reaction to the U.S.-Russia summit, writes Peter Feher, an international observer for ‘Magyar Hírlap’ (‘Hungarian Gazette’). United Kingdom: Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the fact that Trump sat down at the negotiating table with Putin but declared: “Peace must be just; it cannot be reached …

Scandal: Government documents detailing US-Russia summit found in Alaska hotel

11:38 18.08.2025

Scandal: Government documents detailing US-Russia summit found in Alaska hotel

Guests at a hotel in Alaska found eight pages of documents from President Donald Trump’s meetings Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a printer, NPR reported Saturday. The documents show the schedule of the summit with times and locations. They also show the lunch menu, the lunch seating chart, …

POLITICO: Putin’s Alaska triumph

10:11 17.08.2025

POLITICO: Putin’s Alaska triumph

Call it the old pals act. Russia’s leader had good reason to look delighted by his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, POLITICO writes. From the moment Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin disembarked from their planes at a Cold War-era air force base outside Anchorage, Alaska, their public interactions were …

Trump's former National Security Adviser: “Trump did not lose, but Putin clearly won”

10:09 17.08.2025

Trump's former National Security Adviser: “Trump did not lose, but Putin clearly won”

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, said today it was clear who walked away victorious in today’s meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two leaders gave short statements after their high-stakes meeting today in Alaska, CNN writes. “Trump did not lose, but Putin clearly …

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