Several hundred people gathered for a pro-Ukraine rally in Anchorage, Alaska, where U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are set to meet Friday.
The high-stakes summit — the first in-person meeting between an American president and Putin since the latter launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, is meant to lay the ground for a ceasefire. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was not invited to the summit, scheduled to kick off around 11 a.m. local time at the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
Protesters started to gather early on Friday morning ahead of Putin’s arrival in Anchorage, chanting pro-Kyiv slogans and demanded that Russia return the 20,000 Ukrainian children it has kidnapped from the war zone. The protesters also took umbrage at Trump inviting Putin to a meeting on American soil in Alaska, which used to be Russian territory until it was sold to the United States in 1867.
They should be pissed off about Putin too
Looks like they can gather in peace: apparently, Alaska is too cold for ICE.
War criminalS
Trump said he planned to organize a trilateral meeting with the Ukrainian president and Putin soon after the Alaska meeting. The U.S. president said there were “three ideas” for locations — and “by far the easiest” would be staying in Alaska.
Well, by far the easiest way to draw Pz Zelensky out by making him fly the length of Russia and land in a tactically terrible location with lots of Russian soldiers around. His 737 will be shot down the moment he gets close to Russian airspace.
Switzerland is a better idea.
People need to stop thinking that foreign diplomats will be killed. It is not smart, easy or profitable to do so.
Good for the Alaskans here.
…would have been a time for the whole two-birds-one-stone thing.
Sadly, The Good Guy With a Gun is just a gun nut wank fantasy with no basis in reality.
Okay. Walk me through how someone is supposed to get into the military base with a gun. Or shoot a jet out of the sky with a rifle?
The same way they are going to all totally take out the tanks and drones and missiles and surveillance state? So let me check my notes from every time I ask the gun nuts this…
Ah, yes. You are racist if you think the Black Panthers heavy focus on social welfare programs had anything to do with it because it was all just because they had a few gats. And the gun nuts are all going to singlehandedly smash every single camera before building dragons teeth in the streets and anyone who questions that is a coward.
So yup. Real shocker there was no Good Guy With A Gun around.
Also, props for the implicit point that there are no Good Guys in the military.
