Putin is not interested in peace but President Donald Trump has been trying hard to legitimize Putin trying to convince that he is. Is it that Trump has very clearly misinterpreted the situation or is unable to read Putin’s intentions or is he actually taking instructions from Putin?
‘Be Nice to Putin Day’ must end now because Putin is not interested in peace
So Friday 15th August 2025 was ‘Be Nice to Putin Day’ dedicated by President Donald Trump. What did that achieve? Well nothing at all really. Putin is a war criminal and a tyrant and instead of being nice to him and offering him a warm welcome he should have been arrested as soon as he stepped foot on American soil. God knows what Trump and Putin talked about during their ‘ summit ‘ in Alaska. Most likely Trump was trying to normalize trade relationships with Russia or taking instructions from Putin. The summit was a calculated attempt by Putin to buy extra time and extra goodwill from the Trump administration. Putin was not prepared to give an inch on his demands regarding the Ukraine. Following this summit it is immediately evident that Trump speaks the words of Putin particularly when it comes to NATO membership. Both Putin and Trump are misleading the world with a merry dance in a pantomime of peace.
The issue of NATO membership for the Ukraine is an issue that Trump has no right to pass comment on but it is clearly an issue which Putin has raised through Trump. Also why does Trump share Putin’s viewpoints about NATO membership? The reasons Putin has given for this are very tenuous. Also claims of Russia that they initiated the conflict to protect Russian speakers in the Ukraine are pretty flimsy and insubstantial because of course many Ukrainians are going to speak Russian because Ukraine was once a part of the Russian state.
Ukraine is a democratic nation so decisions are reached in a democratic way which protects Russian language speakers as much as any other language speakers. However Russia has never coped well with democracy and free speech anyway so it’s just a concept that they don’t understand. So when Sergie Lavrov raises these points he is just speaking crap.
The ‘Be Nice to Putin Day’ summit was a sham designed to make Putin look like he is genuinely seeking peace :when in reality Putin is not interested in peace. Nothing was changed by Putin’s meeting with Trump: people are still getting needlessly killed in Ukraine because of Putin. Nothing has changed and Putin’s resolve to continue to kill innocent Ukrainian citizens has not changed.
Remember that very public display of anger by Trump towards Putin?
Those same killings that had previously aroused President Trump’s very public anger against Putin, now seemed to have been completely forgotten about during the nice sentiments and the warm welcome of the ‘ Be Nice to Putin Day’ summit. However these issues continue to dominate the news on a daily basis. TRUMP now doesn’t seem too bothered about them now, since the world has now become swept along with the whole charade of the idea of peace.
The public display of anger looks like it was staged for the media meant to give the impression of a legitimate threat to Putin or a call to action. Possibly it was meant to convince us that Donald Trump was serious about real sanctions on Russia and a sense of real frustration with Putin accompanied by future action. It was meant to convince us that Donald Trump was in control. Possibly as a first prelude to what was to follow in the charade of peace negotiations. It was all a part of the media circus playing out between Trump and Putin in public view and for public consumption. It was staged to give the impression of reality. One feels that the part was well rehearsed and Trump had been well tutored.
The sanctions that Trump mentioned will not come about because of this peace charade
Anyway it wasn’t a matter that was raised during this summit because Trump didn’t seem keen to raise awkward issues but instead preferred to stick to flattery and niceties. The whole pantomime of peace following this summit is just a waste of time meant to be a long diversionary tactic which favors Putin and comes at considerable cost to the Ukraine.
No doubt that we won’t be hearing anything more about those ‘ heavy sanctions ‘ in the future for as long as Trump and Putin can string us all along about these peace negotiations.
The summit was a sham designed to make it appear that Putin is genuinely interested in Peace
Putin is not interested in peace in the Ukraine. Trump was either a willing stooge or an absolute idiot who is easily taken in by Putin. Most likely is that he is a Russian Asset being played by Putin to dupe the American public. Calling him ‘Validimir’ like he is a friend was too much for me to stomach. I really can’t understand how the American public can be so easily deceived.
It’s time for European leaders to realize they are being misled
It’s time for European leaders to realize they are being misled by all these falsely raised hopes of peace that have been raised by Trump. European leaders seem to have been swept up in a merry dance orchestrated by Trump and possibly Putin. They need to stop wasting their time in a game of wishful thinking falsely believing that Putin is actually interested in peace: he is not. These murmurings of peace are completely fabricated. They are a diversionary tactic being implemented by Trump and Putin and designed to wrong foot both the Ukraine and Europe.
Trump and American involvement on peace negotiations now needs to be sidelined. Trump is an unreliable negotiator who is at least biased towards Putin. At worst he is possibly a Russian Asset. Europe needs to take over now and factor out Trump and America in relation to NATO and the war in Ukraine.
Trump speaks the words of Putin while Putin is not interested in peace
Now it comes to our attention that Trump is telling the Ukraine that it must agree to never join NATO if it wants peace. Trump has been rehearsed by Putin to the point that Trump speaks the words of Putin. Trump is not self determining and is just Putin’s puppet. How dare Trump dictate that another self governing nation of the Ukraine cannot decide it’s own destiny. If nothing else this confirms completely that Trump speaks the words of Putin. Neither Europe nor the Ukraine should trust Trump or America because it has so thoroughly been infiltrated by Putin. Europe should decide to both eject the USA from NATO and immediately accept the Ukraine as one of it’s member nations.
Accepting the Ukraine into NATO is the only way to stop this war and frustrate Putin
It was initially claimed that in the event of further peace negotiations that there would be security guarantees extended to the Ukraine equivalent to those of Article 5 of the NATO constitution. However since this was announced it has already been somewhat diluted by the USA and now it seems that Russia will also be given the opportunity to vet these guarantees to see what would be acceptable to them.
From Zelenskyy’s and the Ukrainian point of view these cast iron security guarantees are looking increasingly flimsy. It is now not even clear if this will involve direct action of just an element of coordination. What does coordination involve? It seems to place the onus on Europe to offer assistance if Putin decided to invade again but may count out the ability of European troops to directly engage with Russian forces if any infringements of any peace deal take place.
These Security Guarantees are now hopelessly weak
It now appears that these security guarantees will not now contain any boots on the ground approach at all, if Putin makes strong objections to it.
Every way that you look at these security guarantees they come no where near to being the cast iron guarantees similar to Article 5 of NATO convention that was initially promised. It seems to contain ‘get out clauses’ and loopholes and rules of non engagement. I really can’t understand why these guarantees have to be made acceptable to Putin because that just undermines any sense of there being any security guarantees in the first place. What started as a good hopeful idea announced by Trump has now become just meaningless, worthless nonsense.
If security guarantees are to be offered to Ukraine they must contain a sufficient deterrent to Putin. That means that Putin should put up and shut up with them because they are there for the purpose of preventing further military action by Russia. They are there to stop Putin side-stepping any peace agreement. They cannot be wooly or poorly defined with opt out clauses allowing nations to withdraw their support or clauses which prevent nations from coming to the aid of Ukraine by joint military action. They must offer a real threat to Putin to keep him in check. They must be binding. They have to have strong measures that would scare Putin.
However if western nations are prepared to go as far as to offer troop involvement at some point in the future then why aren’t they willing to do this right now? If they were willing to offer this now then that may be enough to force Putin to stop this war with the Ukraine with immediate effect right now without further peace negotiations. Why do they wait and what would be the difference between implementing it now or later on?
Chances are that Putin is waiting to see what these security guarantees involve and if he can test them
Putin is not interested in peace at all. He is interested in Russia’s imperialist expansion. He wants to regain many of the states that opted out of the Russian / Soviet block. Ukraine being one of these he wants to take it back into his sphere of influence. The chances are that Putin is just waiting to see if he can test and exploit these security guarantees before he agrees to them. If he sees weaknesses such as opt out possibilities and rules of non- engagement together with limited involvement from the USA chances are he will agree to them. He will be looking to exploit any weaknesses with further aggression against the Ukraine. He is most likely waiting to see if any peace agreement will give him any future advantage. This is just the way Putin operates. He cannot be trusted at all. We have seen this time and time again. If he thinks that other nations will opt out of obligations to defend Ukraine or that there is no perceived threat to Russia he will go again and again until he has all of Ukraine. Putin is not interested in peace. Both Trump and Putin are leading both Ukraine and Europe on a pointless merry dance.
What’s the point in letting Russia decide what the security guarantees should look like?
If there are to be security guarantees it must mean direct action and direct involvement along the front line, not as we see now, it must translate to troops on the ground and planes in the air and the ability to engage Russian troops if fired upon. However Trump has made it quite clear that there will be no American Troops on the ground. It is likely that Putin would not agree to peace under such circumstances anyway. Europe must beware of signing up to a weak security guarantee that favours future exploitation by Putin. Letting Russia decide what security guarantees are acceptable to them just allows these guarantees to be watered down to suit Russia, such as having no European soldiers allowed on the front line and barring the peacekeeping troops from engaging with Russian troops. Why not just have soldiers with no arms or ammunition at all to suit Russia ?
Since it’s announcement these security guarantees now basically add up to nothing so this isn’t going to stop Putin pressing on. Zelenskyy needs to reject these proposals right now as unsuitable. Such watered down proposals put the Ukraine in increased danger of further aggression from Russia and would not now constitute a sufficient deterrent to Putin.
A better way of doing things would be to allow the Ukraine to join NATO now. Why do you think Putin is so against this as is clear by Trump’s reiteration of Putin’s words on the matter? Why do you think that it seems to have become such a pivotal matter in this new peace process? Any expansion of NATO limits the amount of Imperialist expansion and reclamation of the old Soviet Block that Putin can achieve. He fears that invasion of any other NATO country will result in triggering Article 5 of NATO’s constitution with it’s obligation to defend member states.
Putin is alleged to have told Trump that he was fearful that if accepted into NATO then the Ukraine would have attacked Russia. However there was no basis for this as the Ukraine had no plans or thoughts of doing anything so stupid. The Ukraine has been just going about it’s own business quite relieved that it was no longer a part of Russia. So Putin is suggesting that the invasion of Ukraine was in effect a preemptive measure which is just bullshit because everyone knows that the invasion was just Putin wanting to expand his Imperialism and reclaim states that had managed to break free of Russian / Soviet control.
Also it seems that Putin’s objections to having borders with 2 other NATO countries doesn’t extend to Sweden or Finland who both joined NATO as a result of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. It is more likely that Putin’s objections to the Ukraine being in NATO are based more on it being the final act of the Ukraine to take itself completely out of Putin’s reach and sphere of influence for evermore which annoys Putin the most. With NATO protection the Ukraine need never fear Putin and Russia again and this makes it unobtainable to Putin thus ending his Imperialistic aspirations for that area.
The real reason Putin doesn’t want the Ukraine to be in NATO is because he fears NATO and article 5 of the NATO constitution in particular. Being a part of NATO offers a cast iron guarantee that Putin would not be unable to test and weaken. NATO offers the greatest level of security and contains no opt out clauses or weakened commitments from it’s member nations. Putin would find it very hard to test. It remains to be be seen if Putin is willing to accept these new proposed security guarantees. I suspect if he feels he can exploit them in the future to his own advantage he will. Because Putin is not interested in peace so if he does accept them I would expect that he is doing so because he sees opportunity to ignore them. The only cast iron security guarantees that Putin actually fears would be those that Ukraine could get through NATO membership.
Cowardly Putin is still targeting the civilian population in Ukraine
NATO and Europe must now step up to the mark by allowing the Ukraine to join NATO with immediate effect. NATO must give Putin and Russia 2 weeks notice to withdraw it’s troops because the Ukraine will be joining NATO. After that point NATO will be sending troops to assist Ukraine. This is the only ultimatum that Putin understands. Europe and NATO’S commitment to this ultimatum must be unyielding and firm. This war in Ukraine is against a tyrant who only understands force and threats so the threats must be forceful. This war in Ukraine is essentially a war for Europe and must be supported by NATO. The commitment to defend Ukraine cannot be half hearted. It must be supported by commitment to use it’s troops and all it’s machinery of war. Putin must be defeated and destroyed.
Since this ‘Be Nice to Putin Day’ the cowardly, despotic dictator has increased his assault on the civilian population of Ukraine. His actions just reinforce everything I have said about him not being interested in peace at all. This cowardly despot must be eradicated or detained on charges of war crimes. Any summit was a complete waste of time and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to understand how Trump could possibly misread the signs that Putin is not at all interested in peace.