Trump Says 25 Percent Chance Putin Meeting Could Fail

Washington: US President Donald Trump estimated on Thursday, with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, had a chance of his summit.

“This meeting is holding the second meeting, but this meeting has a 25 percent chance of not being a successful meeting,” Trump said in a statement to Radio. He said.

Trump turns to the historical key US base with Putin invitation

Donald Trump turns his history with Vladimir Putin and Alaska Summit – he invites Russia’s leader to descent once to Moscow and meets him at a military base following the Soviet Union.

Putin points out that the position is even more striking because it is under the indictment by the International Criminal Court, and the summit of Friday has been allowed for the first time in the Western country since it occupied Ukraine in February 2022.

The two leaders will meet at the Elmendorf Air Force Base, which passes through the slogan “Best Cover for North America”.

Trump said that Putin suggested the summit and the extent to which the Presidency thought of the base or the symbolism of Alaska, which was longing by some Russian nationalists.

However, the former Russian Analysis Director in the CIA, George Beebe, said that the Alaska environment has emphasized two forces – history and Pacific Ocean – rather than the competition or conflict in Ukraine.

“What he does here is not the Cold War. We are not playing the summits of the Cold War again,” he says. He said.

“We are entering a new era not only in the bilateral relationship between Russia and the United States, but also in the role of this relationship in the world,” he said.

Russia had settled in Alaska from the 18th century onwards, but Tsar Alexander, who struggled to make his colony profitable and disabled by the Crimean War, sold it to the United States in 1867.

Later, Foreign Minister William Seward was mocked for the purchasing of the so -called “Seward’s Folly” because of Alaska’s lack of perceived value, but proved that the region was later strategically important.

The United States ran to build what became an Elmendorf air base after seizing some of the Aleutian Islands after the 1941 surprise attack on the Empire Japan.

Then the Cold War and Elmendorf were a key center to observe Soviet movements along the Bering Strait.

About nine months ago, an electronic surveillance aircraft from Elmendorf and other US planes tried to watch Russian planes flying on the coast of Alaska.