The Malignant Fascist's "Sickening" Meeting (UPDATED)

 

An excerpt from an editorial in the Kyiv Independent gives the proper view of yesterday's disgraceful display of subservience by the thirsty Malignant Fascist / Agent Krasnov and his hero, war criminal Vladimir Putin:

"Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless.

Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

On our screens, a blood-soaked dictator and war criminal received a royal welcome in the land of the free — as his attack drones headed for our cities.

In the lead-up to the meeting in Alaska, U.S. President Donald Trump declared he wanted a “ceasefire today” and that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin would face “severe consequences” if he didn't go for it.

Yet after a 2.5-hour closed-door meeting, Trump and Putin emerged to share… nothing. “Progress” was made and some “understanding” reached, but the two didn’t come to an agreement on “the most significant point” — clearly, Ukraine.

Trump didn’t get what he wanted. But Putin? He sure did.

From the moment he stepped off the plane on U.S. soil, the Russian dictator was beaming.

No longer an international pariah, he was finally getting accepted – and respected — by the leader of the free world. Trump’s predecessor once called Putin a murderer; Trump offered him a king’s welcome.  (our emphasis)

We saw a cowardly, deceitful bully who has no respect for democracy or human decency greet a Russian  monster with the blood of thousands on his hands -- the hands that the MF grasped and patted in a friendlier way than he's ever greeted our friends and allies. Here's a similar take by Jamie Dettmer at Politico:

"Call it the old pals act.

From the moment Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin disembarked from their planes at a Cold War-era air force base outside Anchorage, Alaska, their public interactions were notably friendly — with the U.S. president applauding the Russian ruler, an exchange of smiles, a pat on the shoulder, an animated but clearly friendly conversation on the red carpet. 

And then, after an American military flyover, the stunning protocol-buster of Putin climbing into “the Beast” — the U.S. president’s official car — to share a limousine ride to the critical summit.

The Russian leader seemed delighted. As well he might.  

The run-up to the summit was accompanied by scores of hand-wringing predictions from officials, diplomats and pundits. Fears ran high that Trump would be outsmarted by the wily former KGB apparatchik, allowing him to take giant strides to advance his goal to subjugate Ukraine, return it to being a Russian vassal — and crack an already brittle Western alliance by putting America at odds with Kyiv and its European allies.

While that didn’t happen and Ukraine wasn’t sold out, Putin still appears to have got the most out of the encounter.

He secured the meeting, notwithstanding being a wanted man for war crimes, and was greeted on American soil as a friend, not the leader of a pariah state that invaded a sovereign neighbor." (our emphasis)

The MF failed in his singular objective: to get an unconditional ceasefire in place.  He left with just a vague agreement to meet again in the future. 

After this disgusting spectacle with Putin, the US can't claim to be the "leader of the free world" any longer, nor can we ever be seen as an unbiased arbiter for the two sides in Russia's war on Ukraine.  Putin's plane ride on the way back to Moscow must have been filled with champagne toasts for the dictator and his American puppet.  In the capitals of the West, we imagine scenes of bitterness and confusion after the MF seemed primed by them to demand a ceasefire and stand up to Putin.  Instead the MF was played by Putin, who literally got the red carpet treatment, his international pariah status lifted for the moment, and some chummy photo ops and conceded nothing.  Disgraceful.

BONUS: A comment from a Kyiv resident sums it up for Ukrainians:

“This meeting only benefited Putin,” said Yevhen Martovytskyi, another resident in Kyiv. “He presented himself as someone who can be shaken hands with. Now all countries will treat him differently. What did Trump gain from this? Absolutely nothing. On the contrary, he lowered his status in front of Putin.”

UPDATE:  Meanwhile, the incompetence of the MF's regime in handling classified information continues:

Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.

Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees.

At around 9 a.m. on Friday, three guests at Hotel Captain Cook, a four-star hotel located 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage where leaders from the U.S. and Russia convened, found the documents left behind in one of the hotel's public printers. NPR reviewed photos of the documents taken by one of the guests, who NPR agreed not to identify because the guest said they feared retaliation.  [snip]

The first page in the printed packet disclosed the sequence of meetings for August 15, including the specific names of the rooms inside the base in Anchorage where they would take place. It also revealed that Trump intended to give Putin a ceremonial present.

"POTUS to President Putin," the document states, "American Bald Eagle Desk Statue."

Pages 2 through 5 listed the names and phone numbers of three U.S. staff members as well as the names of 13 U.S. and Russian state leaders. The list included phonetic pronouncers for all the Russian men expected at the summit, including "Mr. President POO-tihn."

Pages 6 and 7 in the packet described how lunch at the summit would be served, and for whom. A menu included in the documents indicated that the luncheon was to be held "in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin."...

 

If it’s not leaks on the signal chain it’s papers left behind in the printer. It’s an incompetent kakistocracy. www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

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— Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) August 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM

 

We live in the most stupid times, with the most stupid "leaders."

(photo: A grinning Putin in the Presidential limousine / NBC News)