Review of Alaska meeting
Posted: 18th August 2025
AUG 16
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The Washington post reports in their top headline this morning the following: IAV8bQ”>An immediate ceasefire to the war in Ukraine had long been a bedrock demand by the U.S., Ukraine and their European allies.
One can easily imagine that most neocons in Washington, London and the EU are pulling their hair out. Zelensky as well. His cash cow is wandering off the farm.
No immediate ceasefire was agreed upon. That was the chief demand of Zelensky, Starmer, Macon and Merz. They wanted to use that time to re-stock Ukraine with more weapons (especially drones) that could keep attacking civilians in the Donbass and inside of Russia.
Give Trump a nod (what ever his real motivations might be) he has now angered the ‘allies’ and they know that if they want the proxy war on Russia to continue (and they surely do) they are going to have to pay for it.
In one interview on Fox, Trump said the US funded Ukraine at the tune of $350 billion while the EU gave $100 billion.
Actually the US can’t afford to keep pissing money down the rat hole – especially when they want to spend that money getting ready for war with China. (And maybe still with Russia and Iran too.)
The Ukraine gamble is lost
The oligarchic owned media in the US ensured that the Obama-Biden-Hillary Clinton orchestrated coup in Kiev in 2014 was swallowed by the people across the ‘democratic’ west. The public was firmly brainwashed to believe that Ukraine was the white hat team and Russia was the black hat bad guys.
Few know that the US-NATO started the war in 2014 and killed/wounded tens of thousands of Russian-ethnics in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine – the place where the war is centered today.
In early 2022 Russian went into the Donbass after years of fruitless negotiations with the west to end their attacks on the Donbass. The US-NATO always wanted the war. They dreamed of breaking Russia up into pieces.
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Former Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is now the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission
But don’t think the US has given up on its ill-fated quest to break up Russia. Alaska was just a ‘strategic retreat’. Just look at how Washington is fiddling with Armenia and Azerbaijan to destabilize another border land of both Russia and Iran.
The US is working with Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland to militarize the Arctic in order to challenge Russia’s large border with that vast resource rich region.
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Cold Response was a recent US-NATO Arctic war game on Russia’s border
The US-NATO only know war. Their economies are driven by military spending. Their so-called leaders are virtually all corporate neocons.
And don’t forget that many of these EU-NATO leaders are related to high level Nazi operatives during WW2.
Europe appears stuck in the quicksand of their disappearing ‘unipolar’ domination. They just can’t accept that they must get along with the Global South that is rising after 500 years of colonial domination.
The US and EU got rich off the bounty they stole from the Global South. Museums across the west are loaded with treasures taken from these nations.
Trump is still about America First. That has not changed. The public in the US must campaign against the Pentagon’s trillion dollar a year offensive war machine.
That is the only way we will get true peace.
Bruce