Trump tries to transform the page in the Ukraine war with the historic Putin Summit in Alaska

US President Donald Trump will meet his Russian counterpart in Alaska on Friday to attend the first face -to -face meeting in six years, as the American leader is trying to close the violent war in Ukraine.

Trump’s famous promise to the campaign’s path to settle Russia’s conflict of Ukraine within 24 hours of his return to his position-QUIP later said that he was “in a joke” as it became clear that there was no easy way to stop hostilities.

This meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is Trump’s attempt to fulfill this commitment to stop the fighting once and for all, although foreign policy experts question anything meaning that will be announced after one meeting.

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Trump also reduces expectations. On Thursday, he said that there would be at least one meeting – between him and perhaps Putin and Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski – before there was a decision, if there is one.

Zelenskyy wants to stop unconditional shooting.

From Friday meeting, Trump said he “knows that we will get” an immediate drop in weapons “when it ends.

However, there is always a possibility of penetration given the American President’s diplomacy approach. Trump threatened what he calls “serious consequences” if Russia does not agree to end the fighting.

“I think he will make a deal,” Trump said of Putin in a Fox News radio interview. He added that if the meeting goes well, he will call Zeilinsky and European leaders after that to ignore the conditions.

Later on Thursday, Trump said it was a “big meeting” and “we will provide a lot of lives” if things go well. “All I want to do is set the schedule for the next meeting,” he said.

Putin himself said that the United States “, in my opinion, in my opinion, is very active and honest efforts to stop hostilities, stop the crisis and reach the importance of all parties participating in this conflict.”

Putin said that this was happening, “in order to create long-term peace conditions between our country, in Europe, and in the world as a whole-if, in the following stages, we reach agreements in the field of controlling strategic offensive weapons.”

His comments indicated that Russia will raise control of nuclear weapons as part of a large -scale discussion about security when he sits with the American president.

What is clear is that Trump is increasing from the conflict that lasted years ago and that killed thousands of soldiers and civilians.

The full invasion of Russia was launched in February 2022. Russia controls about 20 percent of Ukrainian lands, based on the latest Western estimates, and it is progressing in the east in the country but very slowly.

“This was the Biden war – this was not my war – I want to see whether we could stop killing,” Trump told reporters on Thursday.

Trump was sometimes hostile to Ukraine as he pushes for a quick solution to the war, but despite some of his difficult talk, he greatly maintained American military support and control of Russia.

However, Trump’s desire to end things quickly is a source of concern for Ukraine and its European allies.

Carpenter expects Putin to appear with the “maximum requirements” list – such as forcing Ukraine to waive some epidemics under Russian control, urges American support to reduce the capabilities of the Ukrainian army and commit to the lack of expansion of the NATO military alliance beyond its current borders.

Everything will be options deeply unpaved for Zelenskyy.

“The Europeans are afraid that Trump will sell Ukraine, and will approve the conditions of Putin,” Carptter said in an interview.

Trump himself said that the meetings with Putin may include talking about land bodies. He said on the authority of the Russian leader and Zelinski that the second committee will be “where they are going to a deal.”

“And I don’t want to use a word divided, but you know to some extent, it is not a bad term, good?” He said.

At this stage, the preliminary regional bodies of the Ukrainians are.

Carbnter said that Trump’s decision to hold a meeting with Putin on American soil – without a clear peace plan – gives the unworthy Russian president.

“The summit is unlikely to produce any fundamental result other than Putin’s legitimacy in the eyes of many Americans,” he said.

“Putin is a war criminal accused of isolation by most of the Western world, yet he is the great winner of this summit in Alaska because he gets a platform on the world stage.”