President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, with members of their respective delegations, met Friday for close to three hours at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, emerging to say they had made progress toward a potential peace plan to end the conflict in Ukraine.
At a joint press conference following the closed-door talks, both leaders declined to offer specifics on the framework they discussed, but Trump said he would reach out to NATO leadership and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the coming days.
He said he could not broker the actual deal that was discussed today, but hoped it can be forged between Ukraine and Russia.
“I’m going to start making a few phone calls and tell them what happened, but we had an extremely productive meeting and many points were agreed to. There are just a very few that are left,” Trump said.
Putin, speaking through an interpreter, expressed optimism about the talks but cautioned that the process could be undermined by other nations. He said he hopes that other European nations don’t “throw a wrench” in the process. He said that if Trump had been president, there would have been no war.
Neither leader took questions from reporters after delivering their statements. The two then left the podium, with Trump acknowledging the press corps with a wave.
The meeting was the cornerstone of Trump’s visit to Alaska, where the two leaders have been engaged in high-stakes diplomacy aimed at halting a war, now in its fourth year.
Progress? The Russians were murdering Ukrainian civilians before Putin’s plane was wheels up. I’d hate to see what a failed meeting would look like around here.
And your buds the Ukrainians were likewise returning the favor. It’s a war. That’s what they do, which is why Trump is trying to end it. What a concept. Cheers –
It is progress LM, as neither party walked out and more meetings are planned.
What did you expect?
That this would end the war that afternoon? How naive can you get.
You remember Jimmy Carter and the Camp David Accords? Negotiations for that started in 1977 while the accord was not signed until 1978 and the peace treaty until 1979.
It should further be pointed out that Russians AND Ukrainians will continue to kill each other until a cease-fire agreement is reached. (let’s not forget Ukraine has also fired drone strikes into Russia setting refineries ablaze)
Ukraine can not win this, even with outside material help or this would have been over some time ago. Zelensky has proven in the recent past to be a loose cannon, throwing progress away for some grandstanding. This may be the reason he was not invited, as the only one who can effectively cease hostilities is Putin and Russia.
You have to start somewhere. This may be the first step.
That you do not like the principals is immaterial to the process.
Rooting for failure, is rooting for more people to die!
Littler Marco, you probably don’t remember that it took Henry Kissinger a full year to come to an agreement with the North Vietnamese on just the shape of the table at the Paris Peace talks!
What would be progress in your mind, Little Marco? How do you define progress in this situation?
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If Trump and Putin did…___________ (fill in the blank), Little Marco would say they made progress.
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After you complete this exercise, ask yourself if your threshold of progress is realistic.
Thanks to Joe the pedo we are involved in yet another war in a far away land. Thanks Democrats you blood thirsty bastards.
And thanks to Donny the Pedo the war continues unabated.
But hey, at least nobody is talking about Epstein anymore, so big win for Donny the Pedo.
Its a good beginning!!
Two and a half hours. How much did this dog and pony show cost?
It didnt cost nearly as much as when Joe provoked Putin before this all started when he hollered out “Putin is a murderer” like a coward from the Oral office.
Automatically Less than Biden since there is No 10% for tje big guy.
How many billions, with zero accountability, have been sent to Ukraine? You’re worried about the cost of a several hour peace talk to end all this? OK.
“……He said that if Trump had been president, there would have been no war……..”
Well, there’s one thing that they both agree on. My hope is tickled.
That’s an easy and completely unverifiable thing to stay. It cost Putin nothing to make that claim, but all you MAGA fools eat it up like it’s some kind of divine proof that Donny the Pedo could have somehow prevented this war.
President Obama (& Hillary) started this by pushing for Ukraine to be in NATO (join the West …. then hopefully the EU)
They meant well & hoped it would start a push too have Russia join w/ the West eventually.
They had good intentions, but it didn’t work as Putin was “threatened” by that.
Trump understands the dictator mindset & that maybe we should not meddle EVERYWHERE like both parties have done through secret ops & CIA coups over the years.
That foreign manipulation stuff NEVER works out.
Just the way it is.
You know so much that isn’t so.
What’s unverified and unsubstantiated is your claim about “Donny the pedo”. Where is your proof?
A big nothingburger but I knew MRAK would run with the whole “if Trump had been president there would have been no war” BS. What a gigantic waste of taxpayers money. Trump is Putins useful idiot.
Coming from a communist, that’s quite a statement.
It shows that the idiots(Biden, Obama & Clinton and all who were in that “kitty” corner) caused a war, for oodles of $$$(Which they pocketed and living off all the bribs, and causing many people to be murdered in a senseless war. Somehow I think theses three should be tried for murder by a European War Court.
k. I don’t know how you can operate day to day with no facts, no objectivity and no reasoning. Must be a Christian.
One of the news commentators made an interesting observation after the Trump/Putin meeting. Apparently, Alaska has its very own NGO affiliated with the Ukraine/Russia conflict. Interesting. Wonder if they organized the anti-peace protests? All hands on deck to protect the world’s largest money laundering operation in history!
Trump wasn’t president when this happened and that’s why it happened. Biden has history with Ukraine (not the good kind) and was probably told to butt out and do nothing. Which he did. Then it was the open checkbook policy where we sent billions any time Zelenskyy showed up. Lots of characters have gotten rich off this.
Nothingburger.
that would be the Biden Presidency.
That must be the new leftist NPC talking point.
well at least Davis Park got cleaned up in time. Wonder if someone tipped off the city.
The summit was excellent due to keeping the General Kellog neocon crowd, Europeans and the Kiev stooge dictator out.
This is the 1st time Trump has heard the unvarnished truth of the root causes of our war using Ukraine. And the 1st time Trump actually heard Russias’ terms which remain the same since June 2024.
The key is focusing on an overall peace agreement between the US and the RF, not a cease fire. Russia won this war, managing the aftermath is key for global security.
The European states in NATO are just economically and socially failing vassal colonies to the US and the smoking wreck called Ukraine with its’ current installed dictatorship is just a throw away country for our permanent government. They could care less about Ukrainians or anyone.
The vassals will fall into place despite the sniveling and whining about losing the cash slush fund trough from the US drying up.
The next meeting will appropriately be in Moscow. They won’t need to hide the homeless and clean up the trash on the streets as in Anchorage.
Hey MAGA, let’s get something straight, he don’t care about people dying, he is using this skit to divert attention away from Epstein, or is it lowering the cost groceries, fuel.
I wonder if he and Putin reached a deal for Trump to open a golf course in Russia. BTW Trumps business revenue grew by 3 billion dollars since he took office a few months ago.