Zelenskyy and EU leaders to meet Trump after the Alaska Summit

On Friday 15 August^th2025, in Alaska, Americans saw a shameless. On American territory, Donald Trump put a red carpet, applauded, hugged and called Vladimir Putin, a defendant war criminal, for a stroll in the presidential limousine. Putin, impregnated with blood and defying every Authority that America once claimed to have been supported, was not treated not as a passion but as an honorable visitor. It will now depend on Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and EU leaders to repair things at Washington meetings on Monday.

Who is Putin?

Putin is not a partner for peace. He is the architect of the most deadly war in Europe since 1945. Under his command, Over a million Russian soldiers have been killed or injured, with thousands still die or injured every day. Putin is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians who have been slaughtered, canceled, tortured or forced to leave their homes.

Entire cities are in ruins. The dams have been bombed, leaving behind an environmental disaster. Nuclear facilities have attacked, risking world security. Ukrainian churches, schools, hospitals and museums have ruthlessly bombarded. Tens of thousands of Ukraine children have been abducted, deported and forced to programs aimed at deleting their language, culture and identity.

However, in Alaska, Trump welcomed him. At that moment, America transformed an international outdated into an invitation.

The shocking sight

Trump waited as Putin spread, hit as he approached. He shook his hand, hugged him and welcomed him to the presidential limousine. The spectacle took place with stunning emptiness, revealing American values while glorifying Putin’s brutality. The screen sent a cooling message. Hidden messages were ominous. In Russia: The murder machine can continue uncontrollable. In Ukraine: The dead and the injured no longer derive American solidarity. To pass everywhere: they commit atrocities on a large scale and one day you can also lead to the limousine of the American president.

Betrayal of American ideals

America fought a war of independence not only to escape the British crown, but to support the ideals of freedom, justice and self -determination. Jefferson’s words – “All men are created equal” – intended as a consonant with history, an oath that America would never support tyranny, but always stands with those whose rights are suppressed.

George Washington, in his farewell address, warned the nation to “avoid the involvement of alliances with the despots” and to watch out for leaders who erode moral foundations. These warnings were not simply ignored in Alaska. They were betrayed in the Washington territory army who fought to be liberated.

Is that what Lincoln fought for? Is this how do we honor the courage of those who fell in Normandy or bleed in Iwo Jima?

America once knew better

Franklin Roosevelt never put a red carpet for Hitler. Instead, he gathered the free world and told the United States the arsenal of the Republic. Ronald Reagan never called a Soviet tyrant to a limousine. He stood at the Brandenburg Gate and was: “Mr. Gorbachev, broke this wall!”

Yesterday in Alaska, Trump excluded this heritage. He issued America and elevated Putin, turning an international Paria into a partner, a criminal into a politician.

Let us remember: Russia is an empire, just as America once fought against one for its independence.

A disaster for Ukraine

For Ukraine, Alaska’s encounter was jerk. That a lot of dayAs Putin smiled for the cameras next to Trump, the Russian bombs hit Kharkov, Odessa and Kiev. Ukraine has not experienced any ceasefire without new sanctions, with no promises of assistance – only betrayal.

And yet, durability persists. According to the Canadians, Chrystia Stodilka-Corkowskyj and Irena Hlywa, as soon as they returned from Ukraine’s Lviv, Defiance’s spirit remains unbroken. Every morning at dawn, young people gather in blood trucks to donate blood for soldiers to the front. At 9 am, a moment of silence reminds of all those who sacrificed their lives and those who are still fighting for Ukraine. The churches overflow with parishioners who pray for loved ones and victory. Even older warriors kneel next to young people, determined to see their nation survive. Funeral processions go from the march to the cemeteries where the new entrants are placed to rest. Their coffins are transported by military brigades and are welcomed by soldiers, as family members and friends are crying. A young woman told Stodilka-curkowskyj that her father, brother and fiancé were all ahead-and that she was planning to unite them. This is the durability that holds the line. This is Ukraine’s durability.

The weight for Zelenskyy

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is now facing the fall from the Alaska Summit. It is his responsibility to remind Trump the vision we have described earlier: the possibility of a ceasefire, the urgent need to stop violence, the importance of prisoners’ exchanges and the return of the abducted Ukraine children – caused by Melania Trump, along with the serious consequences of Trump.

This is the direction that Trump should be caused to follow. Meanwhile, Congress must act to keep American weapons flowing to Ukraine, honoring the guarantee of Budapest to support Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence in exchange for the transport of its nuclear arsenal in 1994. European leadersIncluding leaders from France, Britain and Germany, he is also expected to be present with him.

National humiliation

Alaska’s meeting does not belong to the history of American diplomacy. It belongs to the shameful moments of the country. It participates in the failures of Iraq, the chaos of Afghanistan and every time the nation undermines its values.

But Alaska was worse. Was not wrong or wrong judgment. It was a clear decision: to support a war criminal, to praise the mass murder, to betray the ideals of freedom for the sake of a different goal that will raise Trump.

History will not forget. The world will not forgive. And one day, when the record reads, the question will remain: when evil appeared on American soil, why was America applauded?

The choice in front

This is not just for Alaska. This is the kind of nation America chooses to be. Each generation faces a test: to support the values they fought from its ancestors or to abandon them. The question is whether America continues to represent freedom, whether the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the bill still matters to Americans and if they remain documents living. It will depend on the leaders of Zelenskyy and the EU to remind the America of its heritage.