Putin, Trump and Ukraine
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In a summit meeting marked by red carpets, handshakes and military flyovers, President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to the United States in a decade and was greeted warmly by President Donald Trump.
One of the documents indicated Trump planned to give the Russian president an “American Bald Eagle Desk Statue.”
The problem is that they have no strategy of their own for ending the Ukraine war, other than hoping to contain Russia over the longer term.
Lawmakers retreated to their partisan corners in response to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, with Republicans praising the president and Democrats arguing he was too cozy with Putin.
President Trump and aides have raised and lowered expectations for his Friday summit with Vladimir Putin, making the meeting hard to grade.
Journalist Mark Halperin predicted that President Donald Trump will ultimately make this shocking move against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov has said that Russia could destroy the United States "faster and more effectively" with nuclear strikes.