The Lowering Of Expectations For The Meeting With Putin.
“There’s a realistic adjustment and lowering of expectations,” said John Herbst, a former US ambassador to Ukraine and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center. “Even Trump is pointing out, correctly, that maybe you can’t trust Putin.”
Like all of Trump’s previous meetings with Putin, the sit-down at a US air base north of Anchorage comes with a degree of uncertainty about what will be said, which outcomes will be agreed to and how it will be spun afterward. Already, the White House has lowered expectations for what it describes as a “listening exercise,” even as Trump remains cautiously optimistic for progress. Moscow, meanwhile, insists a whole litany of topics meant to normalize US-Russia ties are up for discussion. By
Kevin Liptak Jeff Zeleny, ‘CNN’
Ending the War in Ukraine in 24 hours was not realistic and now a meeting with Putin seems to have lower than hoped for expectations. The two World leaders meet tomorrow in Alaska with dimming hopes that a broader peace deal can be reached to end the War in Ukraine. Considering President Zelensky was not invited to the meeting is telling that a coming up with a comprehensive framework for regional peace probably will not happen, at least not in Alaska.
