President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Alaska is unlikely to supply a peace deal to finish Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, irrespective of how a lot the president needs he may give you a discount and increase his long-held want to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Neither Trump’s schmoozing nor his threats have budged Putin from his insistence that Russia should get a giant chunk of Ukraine (if he can not get all of it) as a result of Ukraine, for hundreds of years, was a part of the Russian Empire and, within the twentieth century, an necessary area of the Soviet Union. Maybe to mollify Putin, Trump has these days spun the thought of some type of “land swap” to finish the warfare (although a swap implies a commerce of some sort, and nobody is speaking about giving the Ukrainians something).
When Trump says swap, what does he imply? Simply how determined is he to win that Nobel? Ought to residents of Alaska — which was as soon as a part of Russia — be nervous?
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