Source: TomDispatch
by Michael Klare
“‘We’re No. 1 and they’re No. 2 in the world.’ That was President Trump’s blunt assessment of global power politics when it came to the United States and Russia following his inconclusive ‘summit’ meeting with Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 15th. Of all his comments about the meeting, that numerical assessment — made during a post-summit interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News — was perhaps the most revealing, if also in some strange sense the hardest to decipher. Supposedly, the intent of the Anchorage meeting was to arrange an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine and devise a path to lasting peace there — none of which, of course, occurred. Instead, Trump appeared to focus on repairing U.S.-Russia relations, which had been in a deep freeze since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.” (09/14/25)