The handshake that shook the world: Why Putin left grinning and Trump insisted he’d stood firm after three-hour meeting to change history

Finally, the ‘Don and Vlad’ show ended without a big final.

After about three hours of closed doors in Alaska, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin appeared like heavy award fighters who fought each other.

They continued to talk about millions of people with Bated Breath on TV, but they did not explain any feature of what they were discussing.

The only result for those in Kiev and European capitals was that the match ended in a dead end, and there would be no ceasefire during the Ukrainian War.

Putin spoke first and looked happier as he invited Trump to Moscow for another meeting.

He and Trump, ‘they had reached the understanding,’ said Putin, Europe ‘newly emerged progress not to make torpedo’ warned.

Trump described the summit as ‘very productive’, but he said there was a few ‘quite big’ problems. Later, it looked more optimistic and was considered ’10/10 ‘.

For Trump, it was undoubtedly a long way to take Putin to the negotiation table and a long way for peace and a starting point for the Nobel Prize.

But for the Kremlin observers, Putin seemed to have achieved two main targets – a return to the world stage and bought more time to get military gains in Ukraine.

Accepting the meeting, Putin forced the US sanctions even more, and then threw the diplomatic box without accepting a ceasefire.

Putin’s troops are currently moving in Ukraine, so it would be the advantage to delay Trump’s cease -fire demands and then make a better deal.

Indeed, on the eve of the summit, Putin also bombed Ukraine with a ballistic missile, and his troops progressed six miles towards Dropillia, the eastern town.

The starting points of the summit have never been completely promising.

Putin asked for the territory of Ukraine, but the scope of his demands was uncertain due to previous misunderstandings with Trump’s ambassador Steve Witkoff.

Trump was prepared for ‘black swaps’, but he agreed to not make any commitments without the approval of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was not invited. Zelensky asked for a ceasefire before any discussion about the land.

Meanwhile, European leaders asked for post -war security guarantees for Ukraine. Putin asked for the exclusion of non -diplomatic NATO membership.

They continued to talk briefly while watching Based Breath on TV on TV, but they did not explain any feature of what they were discussing.

However, there was a relief in Alaska that there was no harm in Alaska for Ukraine and its European allies.

The 1945 conference, where Roosevelt decided by Churchill and Stalin’s fate of European districts on the negotiation table, were afraid of Yalta’s repetition.

Most parts of Russia, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson occupy about one fifth of Ukraine, including coal and gas rich areas and other minerals, such as lithium.

Zelensky was not in Alaska, but he and the European allies were worried about a ‘Yalta 2’, and Trump handed some parts of the region of Ukraine to Putin.

Trump’s detectors also gave him the role of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in Munich in 1938.

Chamberlain gave Sudetenland to Hitler in Czechoslovakia and then claimed that he had obtained ‘peace for our time’. The following year was in the world war.

Trump showed that there was no Chamberlain in Alaska. Instead, a man who doesn’t like a strong man for people trying to pull his wool over his eyes.

More and more, it seems like his Putin view.

Last month Trump said: ‘If you want to know the truth, we get too many bulls thrown by Putin. It turns out to be very beautiful, but it is meaningless. ‘

Zelensky was not in Alaska, but he and the European allies were worried about a ‘Yalta 2’, Trump delivers parts of the region of Ukraine to Putin

In Alaska, when Trump was extensively criticized with Putin about his own intelligence organizations and denied that Russia intervened in the 2016 elections, there was no again at the 2018 meeting in Helsinki.

And unlike Helsinki, he decided not to meet Trump Putin alone.

Instead, the meeting in Alaska was a ‘3×3’ that brought two reliable consultants.

In the case of Trump, he used a diplomatic ‘good police’ and ‘bad police’. ‘Good Police’ was Witkoff, who had a relationship with Putin at a few long meetings.

‘Bad Police’ was Marco Rubio, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who wild Putin in the past as ‘bandit and gangster’.

‘Bad Police’ Marco Rubio is talking to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Trump and Putin stand in front of Air Force One after hand jamms in Alaska on Friday

In a sense, being in Alaska was a victory for Putin, a man responsible for starting the largest land war in Europe since 1945.

He was officially ordered to be arrested by the International Criminal Court in March 2023.

The summit was in 1867 II. TSAR Alexander II.

Trump effectively brought him from three and a half years of exile as a global Pariah.

Despite the difficulties of the summit in a hopeful atmosphere.

The common base sat next to Trump’s Air Force One Putin’s Ilyushin Ilyushin IL-96-300PU plane on the asphalt in Elmendorf-Richardson.

Trump first landed and played an excellent host, Putin stopped at the end of a long red carpet as he went down to steps and walked towards him.

He applauded the American leader Putin in his march and then deployed what body experts ‘Hand and Yank’ hand -squeezing – he grabbed Putin’s hand and pulled the Russians towards him.

Putin resisted the power game and stopped the floor while locking his hands for 20 seconds, Putin said he had come to Trump ‘help’.

As another red carpet walked, the two parks crossed the US jet, in the back of PATS and a few pleasures.

Putin paused and looked at a B2 bombardment plane and four F-35 fighter flights. It seemed to be affected.

The two men then stood on a scene on the words ‘Alaska 2025’.

Trump’s careful meeting of choreography shouted at an American reporter Putin: ‘Will you stop killing civilians?

Putin pointed to his ear as if he could not hear.

Later, the armored limousine proceeded towards the monster ‘.

Putin chuckled with Trump to have a single one -to -one encounter.

After arriving at the place for the meeting, they sat with consultants for the photographs.

Putin shouted again: ‘Mr. Putin, will you commit a ceasefire? Are you going to commit not to kill more civilians? ‘

He took his hands to his face and looked like ‘I can’t hear you’.

Before the meeting, Putin tried to correct Trump’s ego and praised ‘energetic and sincere efforts to end the conflict’.

Furthermore, an agreement offered a carrot to talk about ‘strategic attack weapons control’, a clear reference to a potential nuclear weapon agreement.

Russia and the United States have the greatest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world.

The last nuclear weapon control column between the two countries is the Treaty of Reduction of New Strategic Weapons (New Start), which ended in February.

Before the meeting, Putin tried to correct Trump’s ego and praised his energetic and sincere efforts to end the conflict

However, as Trump has learned, pushing Putin into a ceasefire will be a struggle uphill.

Not all wars end on the negotiating table. Between 1946 and 2005, only 30 percent of the wars between countries resulted in a ceasefire and only 16 percent of a peace agreement.

He found that 21 percent ended with a decisive victory, that 33 percent were in another form, such as a dead end or ongoing low -level conflict.

When there was a settlement that was negotiated in 50 percent of Hose cases, the districts fought again within five years.