We no longer fight as we did in the past. Above all, conquests and victories must now be interpreted differently.

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Geometry is not a matter of opinion

It’s practically all anyone is talking about: after the summit held on August 15, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska, between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin—the first meeting of its kind on U.S. soil in years—there was open discussion about the possibility of organizing a subsequent trilateral summit with the participation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Trump had stated that he had begun preparations for such a meeting, even though the Alaska summit had not led to a formal agreement or a truce, despite attempts to show positive developments. At the same time, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had stressed the need for preliminary meetings to prepare the diplomatic ground.

The meeting was now taken for granted, and congratulations were pouring in from around the world for this historic event. Then, however, something happened. First came rumors, then official confirmation: Trump was pulling out of the talks. The U.S.-Ukraine-Russia triangle had been broken.

Geometry is not a matter of opinion, like mathematics. A triangle needs three sides. No trilateral meeting, there will only be two components. So?

Before discussing the significance of Trump’s move, let’s look at the situation in Europe.

As is well known, after the summit in Anchorage, European leaders, the so-called “willing ones,” flew to Washington, experiencing one of the lowest moments in the history of European politics. It was a moment of real geometric redefinition, in which the balance of power was put on the table and reaffirmed with proportions different from those that European leaders had previously supported.

No, political Europe is not what the European media tells us. And no, European institutions no longer count for anything. They have value and effectiveness only for those European citizens who have not yet understood that we have before us the opportunity of the century to rid ourselves of an insubstantial and corrupt political class, by liquidating the monster called the European Union, the true instrument of control and domination of the Anglo-French axis, on the political level, and of the Anglo-American axis, on the strategic level.

In fact, the leaders of those countries that have interests at stake in Ukraine went to Washington. Not all EU leaders, only those “who really matter,” as the press wrote. What do they matter? For the military investments they have made, for signing the sanctions packages against Russia, for their constant and morbid Russophobic rhetoric, and for fueling fear, terror, and war, while thousands of Ukrainians died, forced by force and blackmail to fight a war decided by someone else.

In fact, it was precisely those leaders who made a fool of themselves in Washington, suffering enormous humiliation as they were told that their plans are destined to be scaled back, that America will no longer support their folly as before and that, ultimately, everyone should think for themselves.

The biggest blow was dealt to France, with Emmanuel Macron, who has been a major promoter of both the arms race and false attempts at diplomacy with Moscow. But also Germany’s Friedrich Mertz, who has barely managed to keep the country afloat by launching a war economy, taking a hundred-year leap backwards in history. And then, of course, there is Keir Starmer, the Crown’s shoe-shiner, who represents the interests of NATO, the North Atlantic alliance which, let us remember, has always been politically led by Europe. Following them all are the rest, including Ursula Von der Leyen, the medusa of the European Commission, who this time was unable to play the sovereign witch threatening everyone with her dark magic, but had to sit silently and receive the bad news.

Bad, yes, very bad indeed, because Trump has more or less told Europe that from now on it will have to buy its weapons at full price, that military assistance will no longer be the same as before, but also that tariffs are fine where they are and that he does not care much about European policies because he has to think about the U.S. first.

In other words: Europe, your time has come. Your time to perish.

Don’t look at the finger, look at the moon

Most analysts focused on the finger instead of looking at the moon. Trump has once again played the American card: he said A but did B. It was to be expected, Americans are crafty.

Trump is playing poker. He bluffed.

But what does that mean?

To understand this move, we need to try to connect the summit in Anchorage with the one in Washington. Trump left Zelensky in Putin’s hands. Or rather, he lured Zelensky into a trap he couldn’t refuse, otherwise he would have made a terrible fool of himself. then, once confirmed, he left him alone in front of Putin and the whole world, so that Zelensky’s true colors would be revealed, along with his responsibilities in this absurd war and, above all, who is pulling the strings behind the scenes, the European puppet masters, which countries have interests and what they will do now that the cards are on the table.

Putin, on the other hand, like a good Russian, is a skilled chess player.

Putin knew that going to Alaska would be a useful move, because it allows him to make many other moves further down the line. He has shown that Russia is not isolated, but rather at the center of the world, that it is open, willing to engage in dialogue, and that the objective results it has achieved are undeniable, even by its great historical enemy.

Faced with such a situation, today’s Europe can do nothing.

Trump has also made the most useful move for Putin, who now has carte blanche to do what is necessary.

We do not know what the two presidents said to each other during their meeting in Alaska, but we are seeing the first concrete effects of a change in the geometry they were talking about. The international chessboard is entering a phase of fifth and sixth generation hybrid warfare, in its entirety. The classic military doctrines, the doctrines of international relations and geopolitics that we have known for years, are colliding with the transformation that is underway, which is unstoppable and undeniable.

We no longer fight as we did in the past. Above all, conquests and victories must now be interpreted differently.

This is a small taste of something that could have a series of important effects in the coming months, especially in October and November, including for Western Asia (the Middle East) and, of course, the dire fate of Europe.