What do Putin and Trump want in Alaska Summit?

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel on Friday the summit in the United States, Alaska, and have a contrast priority in preparing for the end of the Russian war in Ukraine.

Putin has been consistent with his desire to beat Ukrainian territory, and Trump has not secreted his desire to play a global peaceful role.

But both may detect other opportunities, such as diplomatic rehabilitation on President Putin’s world stage. Trump’s goal is that the second guess of Trump’s goal is more difficult because he has recently made a vibrating statement against Russian opponents.

The following is a more detailed look at what the two leaders want in the meeting.

Russian editor Steve Rosenberg

The first thing that Putin wants at the summit is that he is already given.

And it is recognition.

It was recognized in the United States, the world’s most powerful country, in which Western efforts to quarantine the Kremlin leaders failed.

It is evidence that this high -level meeting is taking place, like the co -press conference announced by the Kremlin. Kremlin can claim that Russia has returned to the top table of world politics.

Earlier this week, I made a strong tabloid Moskovsky komsomolets.

Putin is not only a US-Russian summit but also a major position. Alaska provides a lot to Kremlin.

First, security. At the closest point, Alaska mainland is only 90 km (55 miles) at Chukotka in Russia. Vladimir Putin can arrive “hostile” without flying.

Second, it is a long way in Ukraine and Europe. This goes well with the determination that Kremlin will side with KYIV and EU leaders and deal directly with the United States.

There is also a historical symbol. The fact that Tsarist Russia sold Alaska to the United States in the 19th century is used to justify Moscow’s attempt to change the border in the 21st century.

Moskovsky Komsomolets said, “It is a clear example that Alaska can change its main boundaries and large territory can change its ownership.

But Putin wants more than just international recognition and symbols.

He wants to win. He insisted that Russia has seized and occupied all lands seized and occupied by four Donetsks (Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson), and KYIV still withdraws from a part of the area under Ukrainian control.

In Ukraine, this is unacceptable. President VolodyMyr Zelensky said, “The Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupants.

Kremlin knows it. But if it secures Trump’s support for territorial demand, the calculation that Ukraine’s rejection can reduce all of Trump’s support can reduce all support for KYIV. Meanwhile, Russia and the United States will increase their relationships and develop economic cooperation.

But there is another scenario.

Russia’s economy is under pressure. Budget deficit is increasing and imports from oil and gas exports are decreasing.

Kremlin can compromise if Putin pushes the war to end the war.

At the moment, there is no signal that Russian officials insist that Russia will hold initiatives on the battlefield.

North American correspondent anthony zurcher

Trump promised that it would be easy to end the Ukrainian war in the 2024 presidential campaign and to do it in a few days.

After returning to the White House in January, he alternated between the Ukrainians and the Russians, and the promise climbed an effort to resolve the US president’s conflict.

In February, he performed a gel lenski at a dramatic White House meeting and temporarily suspended military aid and information sharing with the countries where the war broke out.

In recent months, he has been more critical of President Putin’s criticism and his willingness to attack civilian goals, establishing a new sanctions for other countries in Russia and other countries. Last Friday was the most recent deadline, and Trump ultimately resigned, just like all the previous deadline.

Now he is talking about “land swap”, which hosts the Russian president in the US soil and Ukraine’s fear can be composed of land concessions in return for peace.

Thus, on Friday Friday’s dialogue with Putin, all discussions about what Trump wants are confused by the president’s vibration statement and action.

This week, Trump made a joint effort to reduce the expectations for the meeting.

On Monday, he said the summit would be a “feeling” meeting. He suggested that he could reach a contract with a Russian leader “perhaps at the first two minutes.”

“I leave and be good luck. And that will be the end,” he added. “I can say that this will not be solved.”

On Tuesday, White House reporter Karoline Leavitt strengthened the message and called the summit “listening session.” But until the week, he once again talked about trading prospects, saying that Zelen Ski and Putin think they want peace.

In Trump, it is best to expect something unexpected. And Jellen Ski and European leaders told him on Wednesday, trying to avoid dealing with President Putin.

But Trump will welcome the opportunity to be a person who ends the war.

In his inauguration, he said that his proud legacy would be the legacy of the “peace manufacturer”. It is not a secret that he desires to acknowledge the Nobel Peace Prize internationally.

Trump has been proud of all global conflicts that has been successfully resolved since he took office in January at an elliptical office on Thursday. But when he asked about the Ukrainian war, he provided a rare recognition of the current challenge.

“I thought this was the easiest thing,” he said. “Actually the most difficult.”

Trump is not a person who is weak in detail. But if he has a chance to claim that he has made progress for peace at the Anchorage talks, he will take it.

Putin, a long -awaited negotiator, can seek way Trump can do so in Russian terms.