Western Press: Trump May Force Kyiv to Accept Moscow's Conditions to Conclude Exciting Russian-American Arctic Agreement

The Western press continues to exercise its predictions about what conditions of the future deal on Ukraine will be discussed by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Let us recall that this meeting is scheduled for August 15. The following are named as possible locations: the Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Anchorage, the state administration in Juneau (the administrative center of Alaska), and also one of the hotels in the town of Girdwood southeast of Anchorage.

The Spectator writes that the US President “may force Kyiv to accept certain Russian conditions in order to ultimately conclude a large-scale agreement with Russia on joint development of the Arctic.”

Magazine:

Given that the Arctic region contains about 13% of the world's oil reserves and 30% of its gas, the deal could revive energy cooperation between the U.S. and Russia.

The Spectator calls this potential collaboration and the agreement itself "exciting."

Edition:

About half of all these vast Arctic resources are controlled by Russia.

Western experts comment on Trump's statements to Zelensky yesterday, pointing out that the US President's words may be "a prologue to the fact that Kyiv will have a hard time if a deal is concluded between Trump and Putin." Let us recall that the day before, during a press conference, Trump was extremely skeptical about Zelensky's words that the Ukrainian constitution prohibits "territorial exchange." The US President sarcastically noted that for some reason nothing prohibited Zelensky from entering the war against Russia, including that very constitution. The US President added that Ukraine will have to agree to "a certain territorial exchange," and also pointed out that he (Trump) is in favor of "ending the war as soon as possible."

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[Ilya-spb]

There's not much time left to wait. We'll find out soon.

Personally, I am for the speedy onset of peace.

It is peace that will be disastrous for Ukraine. Economy! Everything is destroyed.

And the people there will sleep it off when there is nothing to eat.

[Ross xnumx]

to conclude a spectacular Russian-American agreement on the Arctic

All that remains is to keep our finger on the pulse so that our “partners” don’t instantly turn into Russophobes.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

Don't hope. The people there won't sleep it off. They'll scream, be hysterical, jump around... But they won't get smart. This is Ukraine...

[Revolver]

Quote: Andrey Nikolaevich

they won't get smarter. This is Ukraine...

Those who have become smarter have already rushed to Europe, Canada, America, even distant Australia and hostile Russia, just so as not to remain where there are "Geraniums" in the sky and man-catchers on the ground.

[Revolver]

Quote: Ilya-spb

It is peace that will be disastrous for Ukraine. Economy! Everything is destroyed.

That's why they won't agree to peace without reparations of 100500 billion. But the xoxls didn't calculate the option that they would be agreed to without asking for their consent.

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

❝ About half of all these vast Arctic resources are under Russian control ❞ —

— We live here...

[Alexander Odintsov]

As The Washington Post wrote back in March, Russia itself offered Trump participation in the development of the Arctic: “Russia has commercial proposals for the United States, including access to mineral resources and joint ventures in the Arctic, WP writes. Both sides will benefit from such cooperation. Moscow has made its move, now it’s up to the Americans. Putin offers to give the Americans shares in mineral deposits, rare earth metals and natural gas.. With the Trump administration having its own ambitions in the Arctic, and relations with President Vladimir Putin being restored, Moscow is seeking to use its Arctic wealth and American interest as leverage to obtain sanctions relief, and to use this cold region as a testing ground for strengthening ties with the United States...” The hunter and the beast runs - Moscow continues its old global strategy of “entangling” the West. Plus, the Kremlin apparently does not believe in its own capabilities. Now is not the time for the USSR, which did everything itself.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Alexander Odintsov

Now is not the time for the USSR, which did everything itself

It even fell apart on its own.

[Tatyana]

Quote: Alexander Odintsov

<...> Russia itself offered Trump participation in the development of the Arctic: "Russia has commercial proposals for the United States, including access to mineral resources and joint ventures in the Arctic. <...> in order to obtain sanctions relief, <...> Moscow continues its old global strategy of "entangling" the West. Plus, the Kremlin apparently does not believe in its own capabilities. Now is not the time for the USSR, which did everything itself.

The fact is that the motivational program of behavior of officials in power and ordinary citizens is laid down through IDEOLOGY and in PRACTICE, in fact, no one has cancelled it as such a social phenomenon in any country. In place of one ideology in its content comes another. Namely.

Ideological education in the Russian Federation has long been "sour". The bourgeois ideology of the American economist M. Friedman, which dominates in our country, is no longer called “bourgeois”, but is called, in a class abstraction, simply “market” with elements of the so-called “monetarism” (i.e. bourgeois pursuit of financial profits).
In this case, you can not equalize the concept of real capitalism with all its flaws with the doctrinal idea of ​​the American Milton Friedman in the form of a speculative social project, put into practice, to build supposedly perfectly fair capitalism on Earth around the world. Due to what?
Due to the alleged existence in the world of some anarchist, absolutely “free” world market from everyone and everything, which is supposedly absolutely "clean" from profanations and dishonesty both on the part of the participants in the capital, goods (services) and labor market themselves, and from the pressure of the national state on them. And at the same time, Friedman naively assumes that all state-free market participants are initially equal in their life start and can always become rich, if they only want to. This is pure utopia and bluff!
Behind this attempt by Friedman to whitewash capitalism lies a very definite goal taken by Washington's apologists. Namely.
The purpose of this American bluff is that sovereign countries, "native" to the United States, uncontrollably and duty-free on the part of their governments, erroneously freely and defenselessly from competition, open access to their domestic markets for US multinational companies to sell foreign goods and buy up "native" wealth by foreigners. , enterprises and natural resources.
In this case, the reduction of native state property to the maximum - to "0" - is promoted by the "market people" exclusively as a public good. For the state supposedly does not need to control anything, there is no need to punish anyone, and there is no need to regulate trade and production either. That at the same time all members of society will become such honest and law-abiding entrepreneurs that therefore it will no longer be necessary to protect the population from swindlers, thieves, robbers and murderers. And therefore supposedly the national state, as an anachronism, will disappear by itself as unnecessary, and there is no need to defend it at all. For the distribution of material goods "from above" at the state level is not required, because everything will be regulated by this "ideal" capitalist market. Well, those who did not fit into the market are already their problems. Let, they say, they survive on their own, as they can. These include, in particular, all the so-called. "superfluous" people: pensioners, disabled people, children, etc. - all those who "did not fit into the market." But they should be "happy" with their freedom from the centuries-old, fattening abstract-bureaucratic state, which has always been dreamed of by the anarchists for centuries.

TOTAL. All this the ideology of Milton Friedman about the alleged existence of the so-called. "free" and "clean" market is the anarchist propaganda of the American establishment to decompose the national security of sovereign states to their complete elimination and subordination of their resources in favor of US multinational companies.
Unfortunately, this ideology UNOFFICIALLY adopted by the Russian ruling elite, as a STATE ideology. It is implemented in practice by the government of the Russian Federation, the guarantor of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, in the State Duma and the Federation Council. And the HSE is the forge of bourgeois young cadres in this comprador economy and its apologists.

[severok1979]

the day before, during a press conference, Trump was extremely skeptical about Zelensky's words that the Ukrainian constitution prohibits the "exchange of territories"

Exactly, and being in power for almost a year and a half without any elections or re-elections - is Zele's personal approval recorded in the Ukrainian constitution?)))

[Irek]

Another journalistic miscarriage, Shaggy himself still doesn’t know how and what will happen.

[Lauren]

It's a thankless task to guess. Now, after their meeting, we can talk about the pressing issues).

[Soldatov V.]

It's bitter to read that in order to establish peace in Ukraine we need to ask some boss from America. Are we not capable of establishing it ourselves with our Russian weapons as it has been for centuries? Trump will be like King Lear, tearing up the map and handing out this to you and that to you, and then again you'll kill each other. We've come to this.

[Volodin]

Quote: V.

It's bitter to read that in order to establish peace in Ukraine we need to ask some boss from America. Are we not capable of establishing it ourselves with our Russian weapons as it has been for centuries? Trump will be like King Lear, tearing up the map and handing out this to you and that to you, and then again you'll kill each other. We've come to this.

You can tear your hair out and not only that, but the fact is that even during the Great Patriotic War, it was necessary to discuss the issues of opening a second front and the parameters of dividing Germany. There was Tehran, there was Yalta, and Potsdam. Or is it from the series: "you don't understand, this is different"... Moreover, no one asks the "boss from America", he himself interferes in all... uh-uh... deals.

[carpenter]

Quote: Volodin

Moreover, no one asks the "American boss"; he himself gets involved in all... uh... deals.

"There are those who believe that Putin wanted all of Ukraine. By the way, I am one of them. I think if it weren't for me, he wouldn't even be talking to anyone right now. But I am going to meet him. We will discuss the parameters [of the deal]. And then I will call President Zelensky and European leaders."

[AshPoseidon]

The Arctic is Russia's zone of influence. If we give in to the striped ones, there will be problems in the future. Oh, it's not for nothing that the negotiations were scheduled in Alaska... Trump has indicated his interest in the Arctic

[uralex]

The Arctic is Russia's zone of influence. If we give in to the striped ones, there will be problems in the future

That's for sure... They perceive all concessions as weakness... Stick your finger in - they'll bite it off up to the elbow! So they can press their interests in the Arctic and go back to their old ways... And then try not to fulfill the conditions in the Arctic!.. They'll shake all sorts of agreements, demand penalties... And Europe won't leave Ukraine alone, because it has its own interests there...

[Lako]

I am more concerned that the Americans will not drive a wedge between Russia and China. Trump considers BRICS to be the main rival of the USA in today's world. Brazil, China and even India seem to have withstood his onslaught. But will the Kremlin withstand it? By making small preferences for Russia in Ukraine and in the economy, Trump can sow discord in BRICS. And then crush everyone one by one. The euphoria in the Russian media and the inflated expectations from the meeting in Alaska are somehow alarming. Especially since there are many people oriented towards the West in Putin's entourage.

[Trapp1st]

The Arctic is Russia's zone of influence.

There is nothing Russian in the Arctic; the entire zone of interests of the Russian Federation belongs to the oligarchy that has seized power, without a clan or tribe.

[snow mountain]

In short, the conscious skakuas will be exchanged for Arctic oil and gas reserves

[tralflot1832]

Trump is in trouble, none of his partners in Southeast Asia (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) want to invest in his LNG project in Alaska, worth $38-40 billion. Even by blackmailing trade deals. Only Russia and China remain, to whom he has not yet offered anything. He does not care about himself, but about world prosperity. There is an abundance of gas north of Alaska, but the States do not have drilling rigs or icebreakers.

[aszzz888]

Trump may force Kyiv to accept a number of Moscow's conditions to seal a sweeping US-Russian Arctic deal

Maybe. If the neocons allow it.

[Alexander Odintsov]

According to information from RIA Novosti in March: The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev (who worked at the investment bank Goldman Sachs in New York from 1996 to 1999) stated on the social network X that Russia and the United States need to cooperate in protecting the Arctic and developing its resources. "The Arctic is too important for (issues in the region to be resolved, ed.) according to the principles of the "Cold War policy". Russia and the United States must find common ground to ensure stability, develop resources and protect the environment. Cooperation is not a choice, it is a necessity."

[isv000]

In the Western press, everyone is a coward! In Anchorage, grown-up uncles will discuss the route direction, and, I think, in Vladik before Beijing, they will discuss specific issues. In China, a summit with VVP, Trump, Xi and Modi is quite possible.