Alaskan Summit: America’s urgency and Russia’s consistency

That negotiations now unfold directly between Washington and Moscow speaks volumes: the war in Ukraine was never only about Kyiv, but about a proxy confrontation with the West, led by the United States and its military–industrial complex. For Russia, this is not a shift, but a continuation of the position long anchored in the Minsk II Agreement — that the root causes lie not in Donetsk or Luhansk, but in the West’s refusal to respect agreements, sovereignty, and civilisational diversity.

However, beyond that the danger of nuclear war today lies less in open confrontation than in the internal incoherence of the two nuclear superpowers. America is paralysed by a war machine its president cannot control; Russia by elites who sabotage sovereign resilience. It is this double incoherence that makes the summit necessary — not as theatre, but as an existential guardrail.