Trump-Putin meeting a victory for Russia’s positive diplomatic strategy and an admission that Moscow cannot be isolated
However, the summit itself was an anticlimax. Peace in Ukraine remained postponed; there was a meagre readout and the delegation lunch was cancelled.
Even after over three years of conflict, Putin reiterated in Alaska that he saw Ukrainians and Russians as essentially one people, “no matter how strange it may sound in today’s circumstances”. Many in Russia mirror this viewpoint and see what is happening as a civil war with foreign intervention. It is an important regional conflict but not existential. The underlying causes of the conflict are outside Ukraine itself.
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