The Alaskan Summit isn't really about Trump. It is about Putin.

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That is a nice picture or the Russian President.

The Alaskan Summit is a really high level meeting that seems unprepared in many ways, but, it is a time when Vladimir Putin is entertaining the end of hostilities in Ukraine.

Putin needs to be serious as he has many lives in his hands. He has imposed his will upon allies that have sacrificed for their ideology. Ukraine is not about hatred or war. It is not about the reconstitution of the Soviet Union, it is about ending hostilities between the enemies of old.

The USA is not alone in it's opposition to the hostile nature of Vladmir Putin. He has gone too far and needs to move back to a place where mutual respect and prosperity can return. Putin's sights needs to be set on making the G7 happy and returning to the economic round table he left not very long ago. Returning to the G7 should never be a gift of intimidation, it needs to be a sincere commitment to peace and prosperity for all the people involved.

Vladimir Putin needs to deliver a document that is calling for peace and mutual respect in trade agreements. That is what Ukraine wanted before 2014 and since as reflected in Minsk. There can be a new beginning and the world will welcome it. But, it needs to be sincere. No more strange ideology to impose the Russia will on other countries, especially that of the Post Soviet States. They need to know this is a time of great healing.

Rarely discussed is the fact why the Soviet Union had such a short lifespan on the timeline of nations. It fell because it's enormous size alone was impossible to defend by any human attempt to do so. The only real answer for the Soviet national security were the threats of nuclear weapons to prevent border problems. As a matter of fact, the artifacts of those old world ideas are still within the borders of the current Ukraine. There are old silos of where nuclear missiles once were coveted as a necessity to the defense of the Soviet Union. Which begs another real world conclusion. Vladimir Putin, as the Russia President, has not lived up to his promises with Ukraine.

If I may?

February 21, 2022
By Mary Louise Kelly, Kat Lonsdorf

...Three decades ago, (click here) the newly independent country of Ukraine was briefly the third-largest nuclear power in the world.

Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine made the decision to completely denuclearize.

In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia would guarantee Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum (click here).

Now, that agreement is front and center again.

Mariana Budjeryn of Harvard University spoke with All Things Considered about the legacy of the Budapest Memorandum and its impact today....

See, the Free World wants all that wonderful dynamic back. We don't like to be enemies to powerful men with nations of wonderful people within their borders. We much rather have peace and prosperity that is mutually respected. President Putin has a rather incredible moment before him. He can deliver us all from the hell of hatred or he can galvanize it all the more.

The USA and Russia do not exist on Earth alone. They are significant to global dynamics, but, they do not simply hold control over a planet that can be shifted one way or another in political ideology. This is a moment that the entire world can celebrate or realize it is in for decades more entrenchment from ideologies that harm the human condition and not promote it or resolve the problems of it.

Vladimir Putin is indeed an important man when he finds his way to Alaska. He needs to measure the benefits of the potential for peace before him as opposed to continued strife and death of people that do not deserve to suffer further. We all know the will of freedom among the people that enjoy it. This is no time to pretend that will is any different simply because of a radically right president in the White House. Trump speaks for a minority of people in the USA. He speaks for little more globally. Vladimir Putin has been in these spaces before and it is he that can turn the key to peace with both sides of the ideological spectrum satisfied to the security of their children within their own belief systems.