The Alaska Summit: Where Even Peace Is Controversial
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 () By Nancy O’Brien Simpson Imagine hating Donald Trump so much you want peace talks to fail. That dark reflex was visible again at the Alaska Summit, where early signs of dialogue between Russia, Ukraine, and the United States were met with derision from voices more invested in political point-scoring than in the lives at stake. For some commentators, the problem was not whether talks might save Ukrainian civilians or Russian conscripts, but whether the very act of negotiation could be spun as a Trump victory. This is hardly new in American politics. In 1968, Richard Nixon’s allies quietly urged South Vietnam to resist Lyndon Johnson’s peace initiative, helping to prolong a war that killed tens of thousands more. Political rivalry, in its most cynical form, has a way of outlasting human lives.
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