{"id":12382,"date":"2025-08-17T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T10:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=12382"},"modified":"2025-08-17T12:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T10:30:57","slug":"alaska-die-kapitulation-in-echtzeit-ein-kommentar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/alaska-die-kapitulation-in-echtzeit-ein-kommentar\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska: The Capitulation in Real Time - A Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

One must burn this image into memory: The President of the United States applauds a war criminal. Not hidden, not by accident - no, in front of rolling cameras, with the fervor of a groupie. US soldiers, on the orders of their commander in chief, roll out a red carpet for the man who is bombing an American ally. B-2 bombers and F-35 jets thunder over Alaska in honor of Vladimir Putin, while in Ukrainian basements children tremble before his rockets. Trump invites the ex-KGB man into his presidential limousine, they wave from the windows like newlyweds on a honeymoon drive. It is a picture to make you sick, and it is only the beginning. But behind the scenes it sounded different. Insiders reported a text message from Trump\u2019s inner circle: \u201cFucked.\u201d No explanation, no spin - just a word that captures the whole debacle. It was a real defeat for Trump, and an even greater one for Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karoline Leavitt, Trump\u2019s press secretary and normally a master of twisting reality, looked like death warmed over. \u201cAshen,\u201d MSNBC host Antonia Hylton called her, \u201chaunted\u201d - haunted by what she had just witnessed. When even the toughest propagandists of the Trump machine look as if they had just attended their own funeral, you know: something has gone fundamentally wrong. Trump himself? \u201cDefeated,\u201d beaten, dejected - that is how observers described him after his t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate with Putin. At the so-called press conference no questions were answered. The man who usually never passes up a microphone, who throws out three statements even on the way to the bathroom, remained silent. Putin had dismantled him so thoroughly in two hours that even Trump realized: every further word would only make it worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The total submission<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As recently as Monday Trump had bragged he would know \u201cwithin the first two minutes\u201d whether a deal was possible. The reality: Putin came, smiled, pocketed the gestures of submission and gave nothing. Zero. Nada. No promise of a ceasefire, no concessions, not even a symbolic gesture. Instead, the spectacular realization that Trump dropped all his threats - sanctions, tariffs, consequences - like a hot potato just to sit in the limo once with the strong man from Moscow. The rhetorical pirouette afterward was shamelessness at its peak. Ceasefires, days before proclaimed as top priority? Suddenly worthless because they \u201coften do not hold.\u201d Imagine: the American president declares ceasefires meaningless after Putin whispered it in his ear. For Volodymyr Selenskyj, who insists on a ceasefire as the basis of any negotiation, it must have felt like a baseball bat to the face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one and a half hour phone call between Trump and Selenskyj on the return flight in Air Force One - sources called it \u201cdifficult\u201d - was more likely a diplomatic execution. Trump informed the Ukrainian president that he had just sold his country and probably asked if Selenskyj wanted to thank him for it. That European leaders joined in the last half hour was a pitiful attempt to pretend they had been consulted. In truth, the deal was already done. The asymmetry in Trump\u2019s treatment of the two warring parties defies description. Putin, the aggressor, the war criminal, the child murderer, gets red carpets, military honors and warm embraces. Trump gushes about how \u201crespectful\u201d it is that Putin comes to the US. He fantasizes about normal trade relations as if Putin had not just invaded a sovereign state. Selenskyj, on the other hand? Trump tears him apart. He accuses him of having had \u201ca lot of meetings\u201d without ending the war - a war started by Russia. He criticizes that \u201cnothing happened\u201d under Selenskyj, while praising Putin for having been in power for decades. You have to read it twice to grasp the perversity: the American president praises the longevity of a dictator and scolds the victim of aggression for not surrendering fast enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Europe home alone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European allies? They could only watch from afar as their security architecture was reduced to rubble. Their hastily cobbled together statement - \u201cThe path to peace cannot be decided without Ukraine\u201d - sounded like whistling in the dark. They know Trump treats them like annoying supplicants who are fobbed off with a few phrases. The EU foreign ministers called for \u201ctransatlantic unity\u201d while it was being buried live on television. They stressed they were \u201cunited as Europeans\u201d - which sounds about as convincing as the band on the Titanic playing on while the ship sinks. The truth is: Europe has just learned that it is alone. The American security umbrella it relied on for seven decades no longer exists. Particularly grotesque: Trump hinted that after the Putin meeting he would call Selenskyj and the Europeans to tell them \u201cwhat kind of deal\u201d was possible. Not to consult, not to discuss - to tell them. Like a colonial master explaining to the natives what their future will look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behind every summit, behind every diplomatic pose, behind every red carpet stand people - women, men, children - whose lives have been reduced to rubble. Families living in basements because Russian rockets destroyed their homes. Children who lost their parents, and parents who buried their children in mass graves. We have published some of our photos to remind everyone: this is not about geopolitical chess moves, but about sheer survival. Most of this suffering has long since been hidden beneath political garb - but it remains the only truth that counts. (see also our major documentation: https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/die-gestohlene-generation-recherche-ueber-die-systematische-umerziehung-russlands-von-ukrainischer-kinder-in-den-besetzten-gebieten\/<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n