Trump Treats War Criminal Dictator Putin Like Royalty – And Still Fails To Get Ceasefire

President Donald Trump literally rolled out the red carpet for Russia’s accused war criminal dictator on American soil, honoured him with a flyover of US military jets, invited him into the presidential limousine to share a ride and a laugh and, hours later, apparently ended the meeting without Vladimir Putin’s agreement to stop his brutal invasion of Ukraine.“There’s no deal until there is a deal,” Trump said at a joint appearance with Putin at the end of three hours of discussions at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, just outside Anchorage, Alaska.“We had an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to. There are just a very few that are left. Some are not that significant. One is probably the most significant, but we have a very good chance of getting there,” Trump said. “We didn’t get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there.”Putin spoke for nine minutes, spending much of the time explaining Russian and American cooperation during World War II, the geographic proximity of Alaska and eastern Russia and how nice it was to have Trump as president again.“It is known that there have been no summits between Russia and the US for four years, and that’s a long time,” Putin said through an interpreter. “This time was very hard for bilateral relations, and let’s be frank, they’ve fallen to the lowest point since the Cold War.”He said he was grateful that Trump was not as difficult to deal with as his predecessor, Joe Biden, and that he seemed more receptive to hearing Putin’s side of the story regarding his 2022 invasion of Ukraine.“We see the strive of the administration and President Trump personally to help facilitate the resolution of the Ukrainian conflict, and his strive to get to the crux of the matter to understand this history is precious,” Putin said.Trump, for his part, returned to one of his favourite grievances about the investigation into the help he received from Putin in winning the 2016 election — which Trump has for years falsely called a “hoax.”“We were interfered with by the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. That made it tougher to deal with, but he understood it. I think he’s probably seen things like that during the course of his career,” Trump said.“He’s seen it all, but we had to put up with the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. He knew it was a hoax, and I knew it was a hoax, but what was done was very criminal, but it made it harder for us to deal as a country in terms of the business and all of the things that would like to have dealt with.”Trump spoke for less than four minutes on stage, and although the appearance had been billed as a press conference, neither man took any questions.Putin did, however, invite Trump to his country. “Next time, in Moscow,” Putin said, in English.Putin was charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court in 2023 for his vicious attacks against Ukraine, faces arrest in most other countries and needed a waiver of U.S. sanctions for him to travel to the United States.Trump, nevertheless, treated him like royalty, starting with the granting of the meeting in the first place. American soldiers were seen kneeling on the tarmac to secure a red carpet at the foot of the stairs of Putin’s plane. Trump greeted him warmly, even clapping for him as he approached. As the two walked to a podium for a photo, a B-2 stealth bomber and four fighter jets roared overhead in salute.Then, Trump invited him into his presidential limousine and Putin agreed, abandoning his own car to ride with Trump for the short drive from the airfield to the meeting room. The two were seen laughing through the window. According to White House officials, no interpreters were in the limo with them.On the flight to Alaska earlier Friday, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he would not be happy if the summit failed to produce a ceasefire.“I want to see a ceasefire rapidly. I don’t know if it’s going to be today, but I’m not going to be happy if it’s not today,” he said.What happens next is unclear. Trump said he would call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and America’s European allies to brief them. He had originally hoped to set up a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy or among the three of them together.Friday’s was Trump’s second high-level summit with Putin, with both ending without any real substance.Trump had lavishly praised Putin for about a decade before winning the presidency with his help in 2016. He then pushed for a one-on-one summit with him in Helsinki in 2018, even though there were no close-to-completion agreements on major issues with Russia, which are normally a prerequisite for a top-level meeting.At a joint press conference afterward, Putin was smiling and appeared confident, while Trump looked unhappy or even frightened. It was at that event that Trump infamously stated he took the word of the KGB-trained spy over that of his own intelligence agencies on the matter of Russia’s work to help Trump win the election.

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