Trump got nothing, Putin got everything

There is no other way of summing up the "historic" summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on American soil. Putin arrived with a smile on his face and left with a broad grin. He spoke to Trump and his small team for three and a half hours at the meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, and offered absolutely zilch in terms of a ceasefire in Ukraine, let alone,a path towards a peaceful settlement. Well, of course, there is no such thing as a peaceful settlement in Ukraine, just a deal to stop the killing. That's not the same thing. Putin spouted for far too long about relations between the US and Russia and how much he enjoyed Trump's company but the word "ceaefire" never left his lips at the bizarre no-questions press conference and because Trumpo allowed him to speak first, the US president had to stand there like a shop-window mannekin while his Moscow counterpart rambled on and on, speaking from a prepared statement which could have been written a long time ago. Everything went Putin's way. Trump didn't say he was disappointed about failing to get any sort of deal and he didn't say, as he had promised, that as the summit had failed he would impose caatstrophic sanctions on Russia. He said none of that. All Trump did was to say there had been progress, that he liked Vladimir very much and they got on well. Putin beamed. When he returned to Moscow the same night, he must have been greeted as a returning hero. And by the way, the drones and ballistic missiles kept on being launched at Ukraine. So, no change there. It was, in a nutshell, a red-carpet, charm offensive but all done with mirrors. Nothing was achieved. Zero out of zero. Zelensky has no chance of getting any sort of deal that will benefit Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. BUY MY NEW SPY THRILLER, AGENT REDRUTH, OUT NOW - AMAZON, ROWANVALE BOOKS, WATERSTONES.