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The establishment media and all the usual DC talking heads seem to have missed the details of a secret conversation President Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin conducted, even though the whole thing was out in the open, all over the internet and TV.
Just as Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Friday to meet with President Donald Trump and shake hands on a U.S. Air Force flightline in Alaska an Air Force B-2 Spirit bomber flew overhead, escorted by four F-35 fighters.
As Task and Purpose observed, seven B-2s took part in Operation Midnight Hammer in June, dropping 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators, or MOPs, onto two of the three nuclear facilities in Iran targeted in the attack. The bombers crossed the Atlantic, dropped their munitions and returned to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri in the central United States.
Putin clearly got the message.
But the Russian dictator also had a message for President Trump.
As the Summit loomed Russian forces continued their grinding advance across a 600-mile front and as the Summit unfolded, they launched a major drone strike against Ukraine: small groups of Russian infantry have thrust some 10 kilometers (six miles) towards the Ukrainian’s main defensive line near the eastern town of Dobropillia, raising fears of a wider breakthrough that would further threaten key cities. Russia also attacked Ukraine with 60 Iranian-made Shahed and other drones, as well as an Iskander missile. The governor of the embattled eastern Donetsk region, Vadym Filashkin, said Russian attacks killed five people in the area and a drone damaged civilian infrastructure and caused a fire in Sumy region in the northeast.
Clearly, the attacks were part of Vladimir Putin’s communications strategy for the Alaska summit.
So, forget the spin about what was said or not said by the White House, the State Department, and the talking heads on social media and TV: What were Trump and Putin really communicating to each other?
Trump was reminding Putin how we just attacked with impunity his major ally, Iran. We defeated their Russian-built ant-aircraft systems, and rendered their Russian-built defenses useless.
Trump was telling Putin, we are the preeminent military power in the world, our technology and personnel far outclass yours, you really don’t want us to come all-in against you.
But Putin had a message for Trump, and it was this: I understand your political system better than you understand mine. You may be able to project power, but you won’t use it against me because your politics won’t allow you to. I have an army in the field and you don’t, we are winning, and no matter what atrocities I commit you won’t intervene directly against me.
Yet, despite the handicaps under which President Trump is negotiating, he may have pried open the door to peace at least a crack.
The Russian willingness to accept a western security guarantee for Ukraine is a sign of hope, but it comes with many conditions that have previously been rejected by Ukraine and our European allies. In order to regain the advantage and leverage in any future negotiations with the Russians President Trump is going to have to convince them he’s willing to set aside his aversion to more foreign wars and money pits of foreign military aid, that the mood of this country is not isolationist, and that we are prepared to act with our allies to defeat the goals of Putin’s Eurasianist National Bolshevism ideology. That is a tall order, even for a master dealmaker like President Donald Trump.
George Rasley is editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ.com and is a veteran of over 300 political campaigns. A member of American MENSA, he served on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle, as Director of Policy and Communication for Congressman Adam Putnam (FL-12) then Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, and as spokesman for retired Rep. Mac Thornberry formerly a member of the House Intelligence Committee and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
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