My good friend Byron King penned an excellent piece about Anchorage and it is along the same lines as opinions by me, Larry Johnson, Daniel Davis, Ray McGovern and others.
Apparently, the Trump administration has wanted something like this summit for many months and summarily announced it with typical White House fanfare. Frankly, though, as an outsider looking in, this Trump-Putin summit appears to be a hastily contrived event. I won’t call it a stunt, but it’s difficult to see where it’s all headed, certainly on the Ukraine issue. For example, regarding Ukraine, what has Team Trump accomplished in the way of back-office staff work? Have American diplomats, military experts and other subject matter experts met with Russian counterparts to hash out details of a workable agreement? If any of this has occurred, it’s been kept under wraps. But okay, we’ll see. Meanwhile, it’s worth pointing out that Russia’s government has never deviated from its long-term demands and geopolitical goals vis a vis Ukraine: Russia keeps Crimea and holds the annexed eastern portions of Ukraine; Ukraine remains forever out of NATO; Ukraine must demilitarize to a relatively low level, not capable of threatening Russia; and Ukraine must “de-N@zify” in terms of its political philosophy.
Dmitry Orlov shares the sentiment:
On Friday, August 15, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are scheduled to meet in Anchorage, Alaska. This is all the news so far: the presidents of Russia and the US are to talk to each other in person; details of the conversation unknown ahead of time and confidential in any case. If you are interested in this sort of thing, on Friday you'd probably want to start paying attention to the official communiques by the Russian and the US sides that are likely to be made following the event. You might perhaps watch the joint press conference, if there is one. And then, if you were to practice proper informational hygiene, you would be advised to tune out for at least a week, to give competent analysts a chance to perform their analyses. Instead of such informational hygiene, what many people are being subjected to is full-on hysteria. Western mass media and bloggers are delivering a panicked barrage of fake news and commentary (for there is little actual news to report). It is mostly focused on who said what, ignoring the fact that the who is not relevant and the what is of no consequence. In particular, any sentence containing the name "Zelensky" is guaranteed to be pure nonsense.
Yes, about this informational hygiene, of which many of us speak and write ad nauseam--unplug yourself from Western establishment media, they provide NO useful information or anything resembling the truth. Here is an example--while human trash and whores (literally) in establishment media float out all kinds of "settlement" on territorial issues in 404, here is Russia's Foreign Ministry today, verbatim.
МОСКВА, 13 авг — РИА Новости. Территориальное устройство России закреплено в Конституции и не подлежит обсуждению на предстоящей встрече Путина и Трампа, заявил заместитель директора департамента информации и печати МИД Алексей Фадеев. "Здесь даже не нужно изобретать чего-то. Территориальное устройство Российской Федерации закреплено в Конституции нашей страны. Этим все сказано. Поэтому что касается целей российской делегации в переговорах на Аляске, то они диктуются исключительно национальными интересами", — сказал он на брифинге.
Translation: MOSCOW, August 13 — RIA Novosti. Russia's territorial structure is enshrined in the Constitution and is not subject to discussion at the upcoming meeting between Putin and Trump, said Alexei Fadeyev, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Foreign Ministry. "There is no need to invent anything here. The territorial structure of the Russian Federation is enshrined in the Constitution of our country. That says it all. Therefore, as for the goals of the Russian delegation in the negotiations in Alaska, they are dictated exclusively by national interests," he said at a briefing.
SMO will continue no matter what is discussed in Anchorage. Meanwhile, DJT is going to discuss the fate of Leningrad.
Speaking of which, Financial Times, this British tabloid masquerading for a serious publications laments, LOL.
There was a shortage of experts on Russia in the US administration on the eve of the talks between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Usually, the National Security Council is in charge of the preparation of meetings, but it has been significantly reduced: in May, dozens of foreign policy experts were fired, writes the Financial Times (FT). According to the publication, in July, more than 1300 employees were fired as part of the government's campaign to reduce federal staff at the State Department. Among them were analysts dealing with Russia and Ukraine. Also, in the second presidential term of Mr. Trump, "a significant part of his employees" lost the US diplomatic corps.
Hey, FT retards, read my lips, again. The combined West DOES NOT have Russia's "experts", hasn't had them for a long time--what passes in the West for "Russia experts" is a bunch or brainwashed cretins from the allegedly "top" universities, who are later recruited in all kinds of orgs such as MI6, CIA or numerous "think-tanks" strictly on the merit of speaking Russian and repeating the same propaganda tropes from the Cold War 1.0. They are no "experts". It is a result of a precipitous intellectual decline of the West and a complete corruption and degeneration of its edukeishn in the so called humanities field.
Moreover, as I also repeat ad nauseam, in the US the craft of diplomacy is non-existent. The (lack of) expertise of State Department is that of providing consular service and availing its embassies around the world to CIA and Mossad for all kinds of subversive (and criminal) activities. Those 1,300 "experts" who have been fired is not a big loss, because among those not a single person is an "expert in Russia". The US simply doesn't know the world outside, period. Never really did. Per operation on Dobropolye axis I will write later--some really interesting insights from there from those ... who know what they are doing.
