WHAT PUTIN TOLD TRUMP / MACLEOD FINANCE

What Putin told Trump

The advantage of a private meeting between two leaders is that they cut the BS and increase mutual understanding. 

A solution to differences becomes more likely, but far from certain.

President Trump has been adamant that he could stop the war in Ukraine. 

But at every turn he has been frustrated by his own officials at one remove who are doggedly committed to defeating Russia. 

One remove, because it is the deep state officials who advise Trump and his secretaries of state: the hidden Victoria Nuland lookalikes who actually wield executive power.

They are adept at frightening politicians into pursuing their desired course. 

They have also roped in their British and European counterparts into working their plans into the minds of their politicians. 

As the Ukraine war progressed, Putin was demonised as a ruthless despot intent on grabbing all of Ukraine, and who knows what country would be next.

This is why Alaska was a much-needed reality check between the two leaders bearing ultimate responsibility.

We know where Putin stands — he wants the Russian speaking Oblasts and Crimea, and he wants cast iron assurances that the rest of Ukraine will remain neutral and not join NATO. 

Given the perfidy of America’s deep state, presumably NATO’s limitation would have to be laid down in a treaty, co-signed by Russia, America, NATO, Britain, and the EU.

If he doesn’t get that, then for Putin the threat of NATO continues, and Ukraine is just the start of a continuing conflict with the west.

Trump’s position is more complex. 

Instead of making some sort of deal with Putin, he came away with an understanding of his position: hence the shortened press conference seemingly led by Putin, and an uncharacteristically subdued US president. 

While he is clear in his own mind that he was always right to get the US out of the long-running Ukraine disaster, he will now consult his officials. 

But they are still on a virulent anti-Russia mission and will try to dissuade Trump from handing Putin a victory.

For the sake of stopping this needless conflict and also the US deep state’s policy of merely regarding foreign lives as utterly expendable, Trump needs to act as a stateman, particularly if he is to gain the Nobel prize he is said to covet. 

He should tell NATO that America is withdrawing support for the conflict, and advise Zelensky accordingly. 

NATO’s involvement then becomes a UK and European concern only.

Zelensky would then have no alternative but to agree to Russia’s terms concerning the eastern Oblasts and Crimea. With its position becoming untenable, NATO will fold. 

Otherwise, Russia will almost certainly take Odessa and run their territory up to the boundary with Moldova, cutting off Ukraine from the Black Sea entirely.

The larger picture

Undoubtedly, the US’s deep state knows but doesn’t accept that it is losing a battle against Russia and China for geopolitical control. 

Ukraine is one battle and Taiwan maybe the next. 

But this misses the point, which is that the Asian hegemons are progressing economically as well as geopolitically, while the US is regressing. 

Nowhere is this more obvious than the extraordinary technological progress — Russia with her devastating hypersonic missiles, and China with her communications and robotic technologies.

The days when nations could always be controlled through pump-and-dump debt operations or the threat of the CIA’s regime changes are no longer as effective. 

The combination of Asian SCO and wider BRICS members, fully 70% of the world’s population, are all benefiting from Chinese investment. 

It has become a rapidly industrialising force separated from the US and other G7 nations, while the former sinks into an economic and credit crisis.

For the US deep state, the stakes are too important to just submit to this reality. 

It is dreaming up other obstacles to Russia’s progress. 

Iran and the Balkans are two obvious theatres which Putin will be monitoring. 

Instead of accepting the inevitable, Peter Seller’s Dr Strangelove is becoming worryingly prophetic.