The much-publicized Trump–Putin summit in Alaska has shaken the global order in ways the mainstream media refuses to admit. Far from being a ceremonial handshake, the Anchorage Alaska dialogue was a geopolitical earthquake, exposing the decline of Western influence, the desperation of Europe, and the undeniable reality that Russia cannot be excluded from the global conversation.
The West wanted to frame Anchorage as just another “routine” meeting. But it wasn’t. It was proof that Moscow has broken through the iron wall of isolation erected by NATO propaganda. Both Trump and Putin left Alaska stronger, while Europe and its Ukrainian proxy were left scrambling.
Trump’s Real Victory Was at Home
Trump did not travel to Anchorage Alaska merely to talk about Ukraine. His true battlefield is domestic. He needed political capital to silence critics who still cling to Cold War Russophobia. The summit gave him just that: proof that he can engage Putin as an equal while sidelining Britain and the EU.
By embracing Realpolitik instead of stale deep state ideology, Trump turned the table on his opponents at home. For Putin, it was vindication, an admission by Washington that Russia must be dealt with directly, not ignored. For Trump, it was ammunition to wage his political war inside America.
Europe: The Supplicant, Not the Power
Anchorage Alaska also revealed the tragic weakness of Europe. Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz openly admitted that the decisive role in Ukraine lies with Washington. Britain and the EU arrived in Washington days later, hoping to coax Trump into more weapons, more sanctions, and more confrontation. Instead, Trump put them on the defensive.
When Trump chose not to parrot Kiev’s or Brussels’ talking points in his press briefings, it was a silent but devastating statement: the US will not be dragged into endless war for Europe’s sake. For the first time, London and Brussels looked like beggars in the halls of power they once dominated.
The Military Front: Russia Has the Upper Hand
While diplomats smiled in Alaska, the battlefield told another story. Russian missiles obliterated yet another US-made HIMARS system, once touted as NATO’s “game-changer.” Footage released by military sources shows the vaunted launcher reduced to twisted metal by an Iskander-M hypersonic missile.
Nearly 40 HIMARS launchers have been destroyed, exposing NATO’s “wonder weapons” as little more than propaganda tools. Worse still for Kiev, Russia launched a decisive strike on Ukraine’s “Sapsan” missile program, an ambitious, NATO-backed project capable of hitting Moscow itself. With German funding and Western technical help, Zelensky’s regime hoped to unleash a new class of ballistic missiles. The FSB confirmed those facilities are now rubble. The project is dead before it began.
The Geopolitical Subtext
What Anchorage Alaska really exposed is this:
Russia is advancing militarily and diplomatically.
Europe is shrinking into irrelevance.
The US, under Trump, is pivoting from ideological crusades to cold, transactional Realpolitik.
The British-EU-Kiev bloc is desperately clinging to relevance as the military and political battlefield tilts against them. Every destroyed HIMARS, every failed sanctions push, every intercepted “Sapsan” missile pushes them further into obscurity.
The End of Illusions
Anchorage Alaska was not just a summit. It was a funeral for Western illusions of unchallenged supremacy. The old world order is fracturing, and the cracks can no longer be hidden behind PR statements.
Putin left Alaska promising “next time in Moscow.” Trump smiled and walked away with the leverage he needs at home. Europe sulked back across the Atlantic, empty-handed.
The so-called “rules-based order” has been unmasked. What comes next is not a polite debate, but a raw contest of power, one that Moscow is winning, one that Trump is willing to recalibrate, and one that Europe is losing at breakneck speed.
The Anchorage Alaska meet may well be remembered not as a meeting of two presidents, but as the day the Western monopoly on global order cracked open.
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By Hon. Chima Nnadi-Oforgu
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