It is not entirely accurate to say that President Donald Trump came away empty-handed from the Alaska summit. Although Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected a ceasefire, the indicted war criminal was a master in stroking Trump’s ego and endorsing the narrative that there would be no war if Trump, not Joe Biden, had won the 2020 election.

Putin’s embrace of Trump’s assertion goes beyond mere flattery — it’s a strategic move designed to give Trump an off-ramp in negotiations by framing this as “Biden’s war.” However, knowing full well that Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine began long before 2022 invasion when Russian forces invaded and annexed Crimea in 2014, the Trump administration is deliberately avoiding a hard truth for self-serving political reasons: this is Putin’s war, not Bide

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