Vlad’s Psy Op and Don’s Big Distraction – The Alaska Summit
The much-ballyhooed “summit meeting” in Alaska was such a national embarrassment, such a cacophony of incoherence, it left observers of all stripes wondering “what in the world just happened?” Here’s my best guess.
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are such irredeemable mind-gamers, anytime they do practically anything, everyone is left to guess “what are they really up to?” As it was during the Cold War with all those “Kremlin watchers” in the West, every move has to be analyzed to death, ground down to powder.
Russia during those days was mostly a devious, Potemkin Village fraud of a nation. And under the thumb of the former KGB spy master Putin it still is. What’s new is that the once-proud United States, leader of the Free World, is now under fellow autocrat Donald Trump, who’s heart is in “making the world safe for dictators” like himself and Putin.
Thus, every milestone moment of this fiasco was attended by suspicion of their motives and bewilderment at the jaw-dropping, whipsaw turn of events. But it’s not really that hard to figure out what’s going on here if you understand the plight of each man, and how willing each is to rob a valiant little nation, the true Leader of the Free World now, of an outright victory and the return of all the land stolen from them since the seizure of Crimea in 2014. As it is prophesied of the Antichrist, “through peace [deals], he shall destroy many” (Dan 8:25). Whether it’s selling out the Palestinians, the Ukrainians, or any nation he strong arms, the fate of millions means nothing to Donald Trump as long as he can save his own skin, or get that Nobel Peace Prize.
The Context: Two Guys In Two Very Big, Well-Deserved Jams
Since this whole spectacle began, I’ve been curious as to which nation suggested a “summit meeting” in the first place? The official line from the White House is that it came out of “discussions” between Trump’s special “envoy,” billionaire real estate developer Steve Witkoff, way in over his head, and the former KGB spy master himself. It was a useful explanation for both sides, since “discussions” in this case is a term drowning in confusion, manipulation and alleged miscommunications.
Though I could be wrong, I would assume it was Putin though, who asked for a summit. Why? Because Ukraine has been paralyzing his country’s infrastructure and economy almost at will, as I tried to argue in part one. And if he can’t afford to keep prosecuting this war of choice, Ukraine will get an outright victory altogether, and get their entire country back, including Crimea. Better to get a “peace deal” now and salvage something.
And what better way to pull this rabbit out of a hat than to turn to his long-standing Russian Agent of Chaos in the White House, Donald Trump, who’s too compromised to turn him down, and too incompetent to not be easily played? Besides, Donny wants a Nobel Peace Prize to feed his delusions of grandeur, and he’s in a jam of his own—the Epstein scandal which is threatening to finally wake up his clueless base. He needed to come up with some real red meat to placate his MAGA piranhas.
For Trump this was like a godsend to him. just the distraction he needed to push the Epstein scandal off the front page and his obvious central role in the rape and possible trafficking of young women. We shouldn’t be surprised to hear from Michael Wolff then that to his staff, his cabinet, anyone on the phone, Trump kept repeating, “I need a big thing. I need a big thing!” Meaning, a big enough distraction to take this story off the front page, illustrating how insincere the Republican Party is now, since they know exactly what he’s up to, and they’re fine with it.1
He had tried floating the idea of putting Barak Obama on trial for treason at Guantanamo, a virtual wet dream for MAGA world. When that didn’t catch on, he started deploying federal troops to DC under the pretense the country had an emergency crime wave on its hands. The goal is to outrage the public enough to provide an excuse for martial law before Congress gets back and forces open this Epstein can of worms. Wolff thinks this was when Trump decided sacrificing Ukraine would be worth it if it got at least part of his base off his back.
Besides, what better a spectacle than the pomp and ceremony of a “summit” meeting? It also provided him a “two-fer.” By reviving “peace deal” talks over the Russia-Ukraine War, it would provide distraction enough, plus burnish his ridiculous sense of entitlement to a Nobel Peace Prize. After all, he had already “solved” six other conflicts in the world in his spare time this year.
Of course, by injecting himself into a situation that had Russia on the ropes and Ukraine winning, and making it all about himself, he’s put Ukraine’s fate in all the more jeopardy now. So much for his crocodile tears over “so many people dying.” “Through peace [the Beast] shall destroy many” (Dan 8:25).
Vlad’s God Send
Knowing how desperate Trump is, since it’s likely Epstein sold Putin video kompromat on Trump—that in addition to what the Russians filmed themselves—he knew he could repeat the outrageous demands he’s been making since he invaded Ukraine. Though “holding no cards,” except for the ignorance of the American people, he does what all con men like him and Trump do—make a big “ask” anyway. For him it’s, “Give me Crimea, plus all the land we’re currently occupying. Plus no ceasefire, and no security guarantees.” Might as well go big.
Plus he gets to throw red meat to his own “patriotic” right-wing meatheads–dominating and humiliating the great United States on their own territory. And not just any territory, but Alaska, sold by a czar in 1867 to the US, and of infinite strategic value to the US today! All week long on Russian state TV, they were bellyaching about that czar, and how they deserved to get Alaska back!
On top of that, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrives, not in a suit, “showing disrespect” to the US super power, but wearing an old Soviet Union hockey team shirt! No subtlety there. Maybe he’s still smarting over that upset at the 1980 Olympics? In our face, Russia is going big. They don’t just want Alaska back, but to put the old band back together again, the Warsaw Pact alliance, and God knows what other European states. You see, to narcissists like Putin and his own delusional base, the Russians are such a great people, that 11 time zones of land is not enough.
All this while little Ukraine is cleaning their clock, holding all the cards. Trump for his part has a a notorious reputation for being bored by foreign policy issues, while Putin loves to lecture the West about Catherine the Great and Russia’s Lost But Noble Cause. But you know, that’s just how a fake super power nation rolls.
In the run up to all this, Trump seemed to float the idea, “I just might trade away Alaska because I have the divine right to do so”—his usual shtick. When he realized that was possibly too audacious even for his base, he switched it to insinuations that he might merely give Russia access to Alaska’s oil and minerals. Sure, why not? Vlad’s war effort after all is floundering. As a cover then, it was weeks about how much he was “going to be tough on him,” “demand a ceasefire,” how “fed up he was with Putin’s lack of cooperation,” the 50 day offer for him to “wrap it up,” Gaza-like, yada, yada, yada.
The Big Moment Arrives
For Vlad, what’s there not to like about this? And no demands upon him that he can’t flip the script on? Thus it was that what unfolded at that “summit” was a complete rout. His American asset is in deep doo-doo and doesn’t have a leg to stand on. So he arrives at the meeting, waits for Trump to emerge from his plane first (a diplomatic gesture of subservience), then watches as Trump orders American servicemen down on their knees (the last few feet), to roll out a literal red carpet to a war criminal who should be getting arrested at that moment, wanted for kidnapping anywhere from 19,000 to possibly hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children, specifically.
Trump for his part zig-zags his way down his carpet, claps for Vlad three or four times, and gives him a warm welcome. By then it’s, as one network put it, an “awfully chummy” atmosphere. No kidding. A female reporter has the effrontery to yell out to Putin if he’s going to stop killing civilians? This embarrasses Don’s big shindig, as he shunts his superior off to the side and gestures to the reporter to back off.
And we’re just getting started! In that first and only meeting, Trump is there with Witkoff, Rubio and a translator, Putin with two of his officials. According to Michael Wolff’s sources within the White House, it began with Trump rambling on for 20 minutes, riffing on his ignorance of what the issues involved here are. Witnesses also learn that he apparently thinks the US and the Soviet Union were on the same side in the Cold War.
Then Putin proceeds to give his usual long-winded history lecture to justify Russia ignoring the Ukrainian people’s right to “consent of the governed.” But of course, that’s the very kind of Enlightenment principle Putin despises. At some point, US Secretary of State Rubio broke in to bring up the question of the cease fire. Putin simply said “No,” and that was the end of that.
We can safely assume that Putin suggested cancelling the rest of the day at that point, cancel the lunch, cancel the afternoon meeting. After all, he got the photo op he wanted, the subservient spectacle, the ride in Trump’s limo all alone, et.al. All that was left was to have a brief “press conference” where Trump again showed obsequious deference to Putin, breaking protocol and letting the guest speak first before the host. After that, Putin refused to take any questions, got back on his plane and left in triumph. “This is the asymmetry at the heart of Trump-era foreign policy: allies get the tongue-lashing, rivals get the literal red carpet,” wrote one pundit.
And oh yes. Trump said Putin told him the 2020 election truly was stolen from him, and that due to paper ballots and rigged voting machines. How thoughtful of him. This is what Trump used the next week as justification for an executive order whereby he’s going to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines. But not to worry. “It’s being written up by the best lawyers in the country.”
I’m relieved.
A Potemkin Front Line Operation
This is why in that meeting, Putin was so confident and could fake through so much. This on top of the fact that in the run up to Alaska, in order to make it look like Russia was dominating the war, he ordered a concerted push at the front line. He knew the press would be impressed by that, since they were not paying attention to how much Ukraine has been crippling Russia’s ability to fight.
Thus it was that on Aug. 12, just three days before the meeting, he ordered a powerful attack on the front line. Costing $750 million this time, it included 180 drones, 120 T-90 tanks, and 1,500 elite infantrymen. Yet again, they walked right into a trap. Anticipating this kind of attack for some time, Ukrainian engineering units worked at night to spike the area with landmines, metal pikes and trenches the tanks would fall into. It was yet another rout.
More Psy Opping And Absurdities
The supposed purpose of this meeting also included securing a “cease fire” in Ukraine and a “just and lasting peace.” Certain “security guarantees” had to be promised that Ukraine wouldn’t get attacked again, yada, yada, yada. All they would have to do is agree to “a land swap,” that incoherent world salad proposal from the guy who brought us The Art of the Capitulation. I’m sorry, the Deal.
The absurdity of this kind of thinking is easily exposed by simply asking yourself, Can you picture Churchill or Roosevelt in World War II pushing for a cease fire with Hitler so they could talk about giving a third of France to him, or half of Poland? No, they were determined to defeat fascism for the evil it was.
And fascism is the poison Russia is peddling, no matter how much he may try to dress it up. Russia is in the habit of funding extreme right-wing movements throughout Western Europe. You know, the kinds of groups JD Vance (the Vice-President of the United States), Elon Musk and other pretentious dilettantes love to hang out with? And neo-Nazi groups, even as Putin cited cleansing Ukraine of Nazi influence as one of his excuses to invade in the first place. Again, how thoughtful of this smirking little psychopath.
Vladimir Putin makes sure he gets photo ops at the Russian Orthodox Church, lighting his candles and taking his little wafer and wine. Then he goes out the door and orders up the deliberate murder of children and elderly in Ukraine while they sleep. Some family values guy. Maybe he’s getting his cues from Netanyahu now, yet another psychopath on the world scene.
What is it about such men that they take such great solace in the thought they can always hide behind the latest descent into the gutter pioneered by someone else? Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin may be poised right now to be the three greatest evil personalities of the end times–The Antichrist, his False prophet (Rev 13), and Gog, the ruler of the land of Magog (Eze 38:2ff). But all three will get their due at Armageddon (Rev 19:20; Eze 38:18,19).
Another point of absurdity. The leader of the victim nation was not present. Some summit. Add to it to the fact that Donald Trump without any international authorization, assumed to himself the right to intervene in this conflict and unilaterally “solve” it based solely on his charm, personal relationship skills, and lust for an Oscar. I mean, a Nobel. But of course. This in contrast to the utmost hostility he showed to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in late February in the Oval Office, because Zelenskyy “had no cards” to play, you see. Whatever has happened in the six months since then, it’s Zelenskyy who’s holding all the cards now, while Putin has nothing but his usual con job and a useful tool to turn to.
Add to that how it was to be a summit meeting with a pariah nation, headed by an internationally-wanted war criminal, taking place on American soil. And not just any soil, but a territory Russia wants back. Add to it that normal summits, especially between two adversaries, take place in a neutral country with much lower-level negotiations taking place in the run up to essentially a signing ceremony by the two heads of state. Add to that…well, you get the idea. Endless ironies and insults to the intelligence.
You could chalk it all up to the sentiment that Donald Trump is always unconventional in what he does, that he’s always flying by the seat of his pants, that nothing is ever well-planned or thought-through. Or you could dig a little deeper and do what you always have to do when it comes to this man—ask what his real motives are?
Ah Yes. Such A Useful Tool!
Donald Trump is no ordinary President you see. He’s a Russian Agent of Chaos and Destruction, a true Bond villain along with his idol Vlad. I’d call him a Manchurian Candidate, but at least that fictional character was brainwashed. Trump has betrayed the country of his birth willingly and gleefully. Like all those “globalist elites” Alex Jones loves to assail who feel no loyalty to any given nation state, they make their money, like true Illuminati pirates, anywhere they can.
And he’s been that Russian agent at least since 1987 when he and Ivana accepted an all-expenses paid trip to Moscow, courtesy of the KGB. Almost as soon as he got back, he embarked on a long-standing pattern of willingly voicing Russian and KGB propaganda, and is still doing so to this day.
Whether through Russia stuffing bribes into his avaricious pockets, or holding deadly kompromat over him (probably the biggest factor), or whether he’s just enamored of klepto mafia states ruled over by vicious dictators, his heart is not with all those Enlightenment values the Founding Fathers were inspired by. Neither of course is Vladimir Putin, who sees “Western values,” not in those terms, but in terms of sexual decadence and the destruction of the family. Fair enough, but at what price? Thus does Vlad “hate the West” but loves fascism? Apparently a lot of American “family values” people fall for the tradeoff as well.
As far as Trump goes, just the other day a head of state has finally come out and stated the obvious. The President of Portugal, Rebelo de Sousa said quote, “The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset. He operates as an asset.”
Well, no kidding. De Sousa may be saying that after observing Trump’s obsequious behavior toward Putin all these years, but the truth of the charge is that it goes back to actual FBI and other investigations into the 1970s and 80s when Trump married Ivana Zelnickova, a citizen of Czechoslovakia, a Soviet satellite nation at the time. At that point, the couple went to the top of the KGB list to recruit because he had the potential to become President of the United States one day. And boy, did he ever tick every box of what they were looking for—vain, greedy, narcissistic, subject to flattery, subject to sexual blackmail, etc.
Yes, we could go on and on forever about the psychology and philosophies of these two soul brother polecats. We could delve into how they’re both mirror images of each other, about how Donald wants to be America’s Putin presiding over a country ripe for the looting, and how Vlad is something of the Donald Trump of Russia—devious, greedy and corrupt, but full of sadism and “tough guy philosophy.” The only difference is that Putin isn’t as dumb and ignorant as his American counterpart.
Of Fake Countries and Fake Presidents
For the life of me, I do not understand what these he-man, super patriots in both countries see in such men. Don is a bronzer, Vlad’s a botox boy. Don starts his day putting on his foundation and slathering it all with orange tanner. Then it’s his glued on hair pieces and hair spray to hold back the bouffant. Then it’s off to the phone to tweet out his mean tweets like a 12-year old girl, his tongue walking throughout the earth (Psa 73:9), spewing forth his bile and ignorance on every subject under the sun (Prov 18:2 NIV).
He’s a 35-count convicted felon who declares himself the “Law ‘n Order” President. He loves to intimidate, abuse and kidnap people off the street while challenging every law and norm he feels like. He once under oath, when asked about how celebrities get away with “grabbing women by the pussy” said, “Well, I guess if you look over the last million years, that’s been largely true – not always true, but largely true, unfortunately or fortunately.”
Yes. Millions of years! But more to the point, this cynic can’t seem to bring himself to make a moral judgment as to whether assaulting women is something “fortunate or unfortunate.” This is the guy who is going to be the protector of women, the guy all his MAGA he men could entrust their wives, their mothers, their sisters, their daughters to. The guy who “liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives in bed.“
The man who considers soldiers who laid down their lives for our rights and freedoms to be suckers and losers. The guy with no compunction about laundering mob money while hedging his bets by being an FBI informant on the side. The guy who relished the thought that his tariffs would have world leaders come “kissing my ass.” The guy who poses as the hero fighting the Deep State and Q Anon’s baby eaters who still loves to flash Illuminati symbols every chance he gets. The darling of Evangelicals whom they’ve looked to to save them from the existential threat of liberals and secularism.
I could go on and on and on. But there’s more soap opera to this Alaska fiasco.
European Leaders Try Flattering Him
Were Don and Vlad trying to isolate Volodomyr Zelenskyy, trying to manipulate world opinion to make it look like he’s the one to blame for holding out on “world peace”? Do pigs have snouts? The very next day, Donald Trump announces to the world that Volodomyr Zelenskyy will be back in the Oval Office on Monday for Round Two of how to brow beat and guilt-monger a modern-day hero.
Upon that announcement, eight of Europe’s top heads of state and organization presidents said they were going to join too. Administration flacks tried to spin this of course as Europe’s vote of confidence in Donald Trump’s glorious leadership skills. It was of course, no such thing. These very busy people dropped everything they were doing (including one on vacation) to fly to Washington to surround their friend in what was sure to be another shameless beatdown.
This really put Trump on the spot. He surely couldn’t lock them out of the White House; bad optics you know. So he played along, and they played along, pretending it might be a worthwhile exercise to try to find a speck of humanity left in the Trumpian soul. The closest they could come, was to do what everyone does nowadays—flatter him to contain him.
And it worked, kind of. Trump did convey Putin’s land demand, something Putin knew was a non-starter for Zelenskyy. So the Washington meeting devolved to the discussion of “security guarantees” that Putin is loath to give and wouldn’t feel obligated to keep in any event. In fact, to show his good faith, Putin was bombing civilians, as if he was giving a collective finger to them all, especially Trump.
Talk of “an Article Five-type” offer from the US came up, that part of the NATO pact that says if one member is attacked, all the members will come to their aid. You know, the basic purpose for NATO in the first place, and which would never have needed to be “brought up,” if the United States had a leader with a clear moral sense about which side to take in this conflict. “Bringing it up” was more empty rhetoric from an administration committed to hiding from the world that they’re really on Russia’s side. In fact, when Russian strikes killed 23 Ukrainian civilians overnight recently, the US response was both sides are to blame and we’re staying out of it. Sure you are. Real moral clarity there.
Realizing that his dream of a three way meeting so he could get that Nobel was going up in smoke, Trump discussed the possibility of a two-way. Highly unlikely, he helpfully explained. After all, Putin hates Zelenskyy. But he promised to talk to him by phone, which he did while the rest of them lingered around. As usual, it was a call they were not allowed to be in on because, “that would be disrespectful to Putin,” of course.
We can only imagine how livid the Russian must have been. After all, the Europeans out-maneuvered his plan to have Trump play his knee-capper. The clueless Trump, ever baffled by why Putin doesn’t treat him as an equal—he’s a fellow autocrat after all–still doesn’t get how much contempt Putin has for such an easily-played idiot. In a hot mike moment, Trump was overheard talking to Macron that Putin really likes him, and wants to make a deal for his sake!
Well of course. But that’s the perils of malignant narcissism. This is what happens when the fate of the entire world is placed into the hands of a few petulant, childish leaders, control freaks to the end, whose stubbornness ruins the well-being of us all. What Samuel the prophet said to Saul the king still ever keeps playing out: “Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry” (I Sam 15:23).
Notes:
1 Goes to show you just how complicit all the suck ups and sycophants that have gone to work for him are. No one knows Trump’s corruption as well as them.
