Johnson: The most disgusting view of diplomacy, Trump received a bitter lecture from Putin

It says: Boris Johnson

Well, that was the ugliest episode that caused vomiting throughout the ugly history of international diplomacy. It would come to the throat when you saw Putin welcome into American soil.

It was vomiting to see her applauded on the red carpet.

It was disgusting to see his smile as it became one of the only world leaders I can think was invited to get on the back of the presidential limo.

It was really terrifying to hear an American platform for his lies about the causes of war in Ukraine a country that, when attacked for the first time, posed no threat to Russia.

As I listened to the busy and tiring predictability with which he tried to flatter and humiliate Donald Trump, I wanted to shut up.

I bet you did it too, and most of us are not Ukrainian.

Imagine how you felt about being one of those heroes attacked in an isolated place near Pokrovsk, fighting for your country's freedom, and listening to the President of the United States. ex officio of the Free World to be referring to Putin as “chief”.

I puked.

Think of tens of thousands of Ukrainian widows and orphans. Think of the disabled; think of Ukrainian civilians living in daily and daily terrors from Putin's bombs and missiles that still rain, even though so - called negotiations were taking place in Alaska.

Ask yourself how those people felt when they heard the President of the United States in some ways the ultimate guarantor of freedom and democracy in the world mentioned the fantastic “relationship with Putin, a dictator who has tortured their country for three and a half years.

It was a disgusting moment because Putin is a war criminal, lies, hiding and aggression whose ongoing analogist with Hitler are directly.

Sometimes he hears that the White House's objective is to prevent “from dying” or “to stop killing” in Ukraine, as if there were errors on both sides. That's so stupid.

The blood of every Russian who died in this conflict is in Putin's hands. The blood of every Ukrainian who died is in Putin's hands.

The entire massacre and the whole tragedy in Ukraine is the fault of one man because for now there would be no war, there would be no bloodshed, there would be no misfortune, if it were not for the arrogance, madness and continuing fundamental miscalculations of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

That was why it was so difficult to cope with Putin's appearance by boasting at the Alaska summit. That was why the event seemed so unacceptable.

Yet, like many of the most unacceptable parts of historical diplomacy, that meeting was also, of course, justified and even essential.

Despite the vomiting, Trump was right to try. He was right to meet Putin because if millions of Ukrainians were looking with horror at the rehabilitation of the Russian tyrant, they were looking with hope.

They hoped perhaps, only perhaps, this famous New York dealer could produce a solution that would end the war but still save what they want and need, respectively, their country's freedom, sovereignty and independence.

Trump was and he's right to take the risk, because he knows that one day Putin will make a real deal. His position in Moscow is much weaker than it seems.

The Russian economy is beginning to collapse under the burden of war. Unemployment is increasing, and so are inflation and interest rates.

Putin has seen one of his biggest oil customers, India, be hit unexpectedly and unexpectedly by Trump's secondary sanctions, with Bloomberg reporting signs that Indian hydrocarbon buyers are already leaving Russia.

Most important of all, Putin still cannot and will not suppress the spirit of Ukrainian resistance. Yes, times are very difficult for Ukrainian warriors, and, yes, with attempts and satanic expenses Putin has managed to make some small profits in the east ʹaly designed to match the Alaskan summit.

But these advances have again been contained by Ukrainians and, since now in mid-August, the great Russian wine offensive 2025, long awaited, has not been materialized, let alone succeed.

Trump has had 100 percent right to feel a chance for peace and justice that wants to make peace. He's one of those who thinks Benjamin Franklin never had a good fight or a bad peace, and he's right too.

But the observers of this summit were clear to them and I believe it was quite clear to American negotiators in the room that Putin does not want peace, of course not under conditions that the United States and Ukraine could accept.

Anyone who worked with Trump and knew his mood could see that this meeting was not a success. The announced lunch didn't develop.

There was no anticipated discussion of any new trade partnership to issue water in the mouth between the US and Russia, or co-operation in the Arctic.

Instead, the summit ended suddenly and hours earlier with a completely empty press conference in which the unusual Trump ʹ did not answer questions from the press.

The meeting was only valid in this sense: that Alaska Trump faced reality.

Putin basically wants to control Ukraine and make it a vasal state of Moscow again.

The Ukrainians basically want to be free and in this desire they have the long-term support of other Western democracies and, most importantly, of Trump's own self and, in fact, of Melanie Trump, the First Lady, who is playing an increasingly large role in shaping her husband's thinking.

Trump, the real estate agent, has discovered that this is not about real estate. This is not about geography or territory. This is about fate.

It is the Ukrainian right to choose their fate as a free and independent European nation. This means that the war will not end until Putin accepts the truth: that he has lost the battle for Ukraine's fate.

Only when this happens will Putin accept a spiritual truth that is clear to anyone who visits Ukraine will have peace.

Frankly, I doubt Trump will enjoy the world's top headlines. I don't think he's going to enjoy the idea that Putin has defeated him, that Trump has laid the red carpet on an innocent guy and spent a lot of political capital and has taken nothing in return.

Failure in Alaska will strengthen what I believe is its growing conviction that the only way to fix this is to intensify pressure on Putin.

No one really expected the American president to continue and impose secondary sanctions on countries that have continued to buy Russian oil and gas, yet he did.

What about Britain? What about Europe? When will we have the courage to do the same? This is our continent. We constantly seek leadership from America, however, when we take that leadership, we don't even have the courage to follow the example.

One day this war will end with a peace protecting Ukraine's freedom; but as Trump said in Alaska, Britain-led Europeans will have to step forward.