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It’s hard, without even minimal inside information, to predict what will happen at the Alaska meeting, but I’ll still try to outline a likely — perhaps even possible — scenario.
Putin and Trump have fundamentally different primary goals at this meeting.
• For Putin, the main thing is for the world to understand that he has won the War against Ukraine, and that from now on it’s merely a matter of negotiating the terms under which Ukraine will accept its surrender.
Perverse as it sounds — “terms” for an unconditional surrender.
• For Trump, the main thing is for the War to end, even through a temporary (and extendable) ceasefire.
In this sense, Putin might accept a “deal”:



