Trump-Putin Summit Could Signal Era of Peace Sought by India

As the champion of the Global South, which has so far been collateral damage in the war being waged by some European countries on Ukraine, India will be happy that the end of the conflict is now in sight.

- M.D. NALAPAT

Their reactions to the Putin-Trump summit in Alaska provide further confirmation of the fact that it is President Zelenskyy and his partners in Europe who are behind the self-defeating proposal to damage India-US ties severely through unprecedented sanctions on our country for buying Russian oil.

India, with its 1.4 billion people and the Global South more generally, are wholly expendable for the Eurocentric Ukrainian President, who through a futile war has cost the lives of countless Ukrainians.

Now that progress is finally being made towards a durable end to the conflict through the cordial and open discussions between two of the four Great Powers of the world, it is less likely that President Trump will obey the wishes of the pro-war cabal in Europe and impose undeserved and unprecedented US tariffs on India.

Such a move would have been a boon to China, propelling forward its efforts to lower growth and internal stability in India.

An agreement on ending the war in Ukraine cannot come in just one meeting but only after other rounds of similarly candid discussions.

Disconcertingly for CCP General Secretary Xi, President Putin has resumed a working relationship with President Trump that Ukraine war zealots were seeking to undermine and destroy.

"Unconditional ceasefire" in Ukraine by Putin would effect have meant the surrender of Russia to those countries in Europe that are still fighting Cold War 1.0 in an era of Cold War 2.0.

Some countries in Europe continue to believe in the fantasy that Ukraine can win back the territories lost to Russia in 2014.