Victor Davis Hanson: Trump-Putin’s High-Stakes Summit Tomorrow

The Daily Signal | Victor Davis Hanson: Trump-Putin’s High-Stakes Summit Tomorrow
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Aug 14, 2025
President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow in Anchorage, Alaska, marking the first U.S.-Russia summit in years, and the first attempt at direct talks since the war in Ukraine began.
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The stakes couldn’t be higher. Will this summit move the world toward peace or harden the deadlock? Hanson lays out why the Biden administration has avoided such meetings, why the “Putin puppet” narrative has gone silent, and what Trump’s high-stakes negotiating strategy could mean for the war’s endgame on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
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“We’re gonna have this summit. And Trump is going to say to Putin, ‘You can have no NATO Ukraine. You can have the Crimea. You can have the Donbas. I think I can get Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people to agree. But we’ve gotta fight over how far west you are and whether you have to go back or will stay in place.’
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And then he’s going to have to tell Zelenskyy, ‘We’re supplying you. That’s the only leverage we have against Putin, along with a secondary boycott. But you have to decide whether you’re going to cede the Donbas, Crimea, and some of the territory. Because if you don’t, there’s not going to be a peace. And if there’s not going to be a peace, we can’t assure you a blank check forever.’”

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