‼️ Michael Hudson: Note 2 on the planned Alaska meeting
The discussion and the thinking continue: Note 1 is here
Putin started this year’s meetings with Trump by saying that the root of their problems is not Ukraine. Ukraine is only an arena in the fight by NATO (led by the US) against Russia, China, and their BRICS and Global South allies.
To solve the fighting in Ukraine, the expansion of NATO must end. That is what Putin demands.
But there seems to be zero chance of this developing. Even if Trump stops US support of NATO’s war in Ukraine, NATO’s roots in the EU bureaucracy (von der Lehen and KK), Britain under Starmer and MI6, Germany under Merz and the Bundeswehr trying to become the new Wehrmacht, and Macron’s France are acting on their own, almost instinctive hatred of Russia.
So there is little chance of agreement, certainly over Russia’s demand that the West recognize its imminent military victory and ability to create a postwar shrunken Ukraine.
NATO has just intruded into the Caucasus with Azerbaijan and Armenia, with US control of the Zangezur Corridor threatening Iran and also China’s Belt and Road trajectory.
And the US has withdrawn from the last vestiges of atomic arms control, while sending nuclear submarines nearer to Russia in at least a symbolically threatening move.
This reflects the Neocon demand for U.S. unipolar hegemony, preventing any country from having its own sovereignty to act independently of the United States.
So my guess is that at the upcoming meetings, the United States has only one tactic – and it is a tactic that Trump loves for his own psychological purposes:
America has only one thing to offer other countries: the (temporary) promise NOT to hurt them. There’s nothing positive to offer, given its de-industrialization and the world’s de-dollarization. (Has Germany ever begun to get back its gold reserves left on deposit with the New York Fed?)
Trump’s generals (the hardest-liner is now in Kiev) and EU/NATO are urging more and tougher sanctions against Russia, mainly to fall on the EU and BRICS countries.
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‼️ Michael Hudson: Note 1 on the planned Alaska meeting
August 12, 2025
Minh, Colin and all .. First, thanks for your sterling and gold commentary. I will beg off a little in terms of technical discussions, as it is busy times for us. BRICS and currency – sometimes BRICS drives one to distraction. We accept that it is India that stopped the… Read more »
An added note: To get out of this infernal western system, is also urgent. Please take a look at this: https://sovereignista.com/2025/08/13/bessent-the-us-will-now-treat-us-allies-wealth-as-an-american-sovereign-wealth-fund/
Bessent is saying the US will use money from their allies as a US sovereign wealth fund. This is what Tariffs are all about. Don’t miss it!
Stan’s got a reasonable apprehension. (In the Eyes of Truth Update 10.08.2025 Is Alaska a decapitation operation. How can anyone trust USA?). One might imagine that the junta kills two birds with one stone, and blames the Russians…recalling the Hitler plot..a twist is that the junta blows the place to… Read more »
Guys, a dying empire is always at its most dangerous. US won’t go quietly into oblivion. It still has one trick up its sleeve: the dollar, its most potent weapon. Yes, it’s the dollar, not those overrated nukes. I came across an article the other week, and it’s frightening. Given… Read more »
Hi Minh, no, I have not spoken about that because most of it around the stablecoins are so much nonsense. As everything is pumped up, so is this topic. And to understand it one has to go back to the roots of this all otherwise it is gobbeldy gook. Stablecoins… Read more »
“the dead stop to a BRICS currency came from India” Yes I heard too. India has played a perfidious role throughout BRICS – for example delaying the expansion of the INSTC by delaying the contractual expansion of Chabahar port in Iran, and other investments. All these moves on behalf of… Read more »
india may be discovering that her lover played her, disgraced her & left her re-arranging her sari in hopes of disguising a swollen belly…where she coulda shoulda been wife number one, now she will be fortunate indeed to be wife number three or four. it’s a good thing she’s pretty… Read more »
Thx Amarynth! We’re on the same page when it comes to the dollar and the need for BRICS to break away from it as much as it can. Let me clarify some of my points. Stablecoin in itself is not the problem. It’s just a medium, like a copper wire… Read more »
My 2-cent’s worth on the much anticipated BRICS “currency”. Firstly, I think we need to bin the term “currency” and change the label to “instrument” or a name such as “Unit” or something of that nature. Macro-economics and the world of trade have entered uncharted territory, and as such, the… Read more »
thanks for sharing this, dear col. cheers & blessings, em.
The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued a NOTAM announcing the closure of airspace over Anchorage on the day of the Putin-Trump meeting in Alaska.
Having lost military supremacy, lagging in innovation, means and MIC, the worm is turning though. Soon that may be the only offer available in turn…
these are their last days to drop barbarism
Yeah, what will we do without the funny?
The fearful Goldfinger announces the Capitulation will now be held in Moscau….. or did his bipolar slip through the cracks. A different script for each day!
No, not going to Moscow (well,not for the moment) .. Just said it in a manner of speaking – Russia once owned Alaska. Trump said the meeting in Alaska with Putin will likely be preliminary. ⚡️ Trump did not confirm any intention to invite Zelensky to the meeting with Putin… Read more »
Continuity of agenda is still high on the list for me, as Berletic explains it. I can only see a push for a ceasefire from the Trump team, with some agreement to territory. There is nothing else, because a lasting peace agreement cannot be cut, between the US and Russia.… Read more »
Largely agree with your points, amarynth. Looking for ‘good moves’? I can think of two, but I’m just guessing. First, we assume that this meeting is about Ukraine. Maybe the main subject isn’t about Ukraine at all, and the meeting is e.g. mainly about the future security architecture of the… Read more »
If the US (any faction) takes out Putin (99% unlikely), the US and the NATO will be wiped out within hours. Period.
Russia will continue to exist even if they get a few hits.
Again, we are first in Michael’s thinking list. Wunnerful yeah!