Those idiots left the summit seating plan in the hotel printers, according to NPR. 

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

 

The Keystone clumsiness of this administration should surprise no one anymore. That they control nukes terrifies me. That they are held up as geniuses by millions of voters, a mass delusion of Biblical proportions, fills me with despair. 


Apparently Trump wanted to give "His Excellency" a desk weight as a gift. The sycophancy beggars belief. 

 

I'll leave it to others to speculate on what exactly Trump hopes to gain from so very publicly licking Putin's boots. My favourite explanation so far is Vlad Vexler's idea that Putin provides him with some sort of narcissistic fulfillment.  He desperately craves the approval of someone he looks up to. Putin constantly dangles like a carrot on a stick, permanently just out of reach, just enough for Trump to think he might get it next time. If he just speaks flatteringly enough, if he just makes enough concessions, if he just puts enough pressure on Ukraine. . . 

Putin plays him like a flute. 

It all defies words, but there are a few that come to mind: pusillanimity, cowardice, naivete, cynicism, stupidity, self-abasement, ignorance, delusion, disingenuity, corruption, greed, betrayal, nihilism, evil. . . I could go on. Actually, I can't: I need a break, because the whole things is just too damn sickening (there's another one). 
 

 So Trump has invited Putin to Alaska, so they can calmly discuss the butchery of sovereign countries like gentlemen. Trump has never met a dictator he didn't like, and for this one has rolled out the red carpet and furled the white flag. He applauded Putin's entrance, shook his hand warmly, clasped him on the elbow, and all but begged for his autograph. It was nauseating. 

Is this how you treat a monstrous dictator? 

 Compare this with how he treated Zelensky. 

In Trump's world, only strong men are worthy of respect. So of course, he will cow tow to the bullies, and do all he can to placate the prerogatives of power. No harsh words for the aggressor, no words of support for the victim; only pathetic grovelling. For these two, working for "peace" means convincing the Ukrainians to give it up and pack it in. Obstacles on the road to peace are Ukrainians who insist on surviving.   Ukrainians are preventing both men from getting what they want - conquest for Putin, a Nobel Peace Prize for Trump - and they are the problem these men will will attempt to amicably solve. 

Munich? Molotov Ribbentrop? Choose which analogy you like. Once again, evil men are deciding the fate of the world, and we're all to blame.