WASHINGTON, August 11. /TASS/. Plans to hold a Russian-American summit in Alaska may suggest that Moscow and Washington have already agreed on a solution to the Ukraine crisis, Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University Peter Kuznick told TASS.
"Despite all the objections coming from [Ukraine’s Vladimir] Zelensky, the 'coalition of the willing' who seem willing to fight to the last Ukrainian, and Democrats and Republicans back in the US, this is a very positive step in the right direction," the prominent political analyst and historian said on Sunday, commenting on the announcement that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, will hold talks in Alaska on August 15. "There must be at least the outline of a deal in place or else I don't think they'd be holding such a meeting. A failed meeting between Trump and Putin would be pretty disastrous," Kuznick stated.
According to him, "the resisters, who don't want to see this [Putin-Trump] meeting take place, object to the idea of Ukraine being forced to give up land, to Zelensky not being present at the meeting, to Ukraine having to relinquish its desire to join NATO, to Ukraine being forced to make other concessions, to the possibility of the US lifting sanctions [on Russia], and especially to Putin coming away the 'winner'." "They don't want to see normalized relations between Russia and the United States," the expert noted.
