Call It What It Is: America’s Department of War

The Alaska Summit: A Step Toward Fragile Peace

On August 15, 2025, President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, for a pivotal summit centered on the ongoing war in Ukraine. The nearly three-hour meeting, which included top diplomats from both sides, was described by Trump as a "feel-out" session aimed at exploring paths to peace. Following their summit in Alaska, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed that the next meeting with former President Donald Trump take place in Moscow. During their joint press conference, Trump acknowledged the suggestion, saying it might "get him a little heat" politically but added that he "could see it possibly happening." 

The media narrative around the Ukraine war increasingly casts Trump as the lone voice for peace, while portraying European leaders and Ukrainian officials as obstacles or warmongers. Yet nearly 70% of Americans support diplomatic efforts to end the war, even if it requires compromise.

If Ukraine’s laws, economy, and military are being rewritten by the EU and funded by the U.S., then sovereignty becomes a slogan, not a reality. Call it absorption. Call it an invasion.

Strategic absorption is invasion by another name. When foreign powers redesign a nation’s institutions, it’s not partnership, it’s domination in disguise.

Let’s name it clearly: the EU invasion and the proxy war. Ukraine is being reshaped by treaties, weapons, and foreign agendas. The cost is human lives.

Proxy war is not "support", it’s a sacrifice. Strategic absorption is not solidarity, it’s control. And both cost lives. End the war. End the games. Let the people live.

Sovereignty means self-rule. But when a nation fights a war with foreign money, foreign weapons, and foreign agendas, its autonomy is compromised. Ukrainians are not dying for abstract ideals like "democracy." They are dying to survive. Ukraine deserves peace, not to be a pawn in someone else’s game.