(13 Aug 2025)
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Washington – 13 August 2025
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1. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Jensen, Center For Strategic & International Studies, Director of the Futures Lab:
"On Friday, we’ll have an unprecedented event unfold. The two largest nuclear powers in the world will sit down to talk about the war in Ukraine, a war that Russia started, and America has tried to prevent from expanding to full conquest through its material support to the Ukrainian people and their President Zelenskyy, along with our partners in NATO. So this really is unprecedented territory because you have two superpowers meeting without the country’s leader, where they’re fighting and they’re meeting in a place that’s a little surprising. We have someone like Vladimir Putin who is widely condemned as an international criminal, coming to the United States, which is usually seen as an important diplomatic gesture to meet with President Trump at a U.S. military base. So from a Russian optic, they still like to claim in a lot of their propaganda that Alaska is part of Russia. So this is a win-win for Putin, signaling his nationalists. And frankly, for President Trump, it’s a great way for him to show American military strength while also isolating the ability of the public or others to intervene with what he probably hopes is a productive dialog. You can say a lot about our president, but one thing is very clear, he really does like this idea of a personalistic relationship where he is truly the commander in chief. So that means he negotiates. So it has to be a private meeting where he sets the terms. He builds a relationship that he thinks he can flip in to some larger settlement."
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Anchorage, Alaska – 13 August 2025
2. Various exteriors of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska
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Washington – 13 August 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Jensen, Center For Strategic & International Studies, Director of the Futures Lab:
"There may be a situation where you line up particular aircraft, particular vehicles, you have kind of this politics of the strongman where you’re both cultivating the personal relationship, but you’re signaling military power to try to gain that bargaining advantage to make a second meeting possible. And then more important, that a second meeting, which hopefully, like we’ve heard recently, would include President Zelensky and hopefully some key European stakeholders would also set the grounds for the harder part of any peace deal. How do you negotiate all of the hard trade-offs that are involved for each side? What’s the balance of land concessions versus reconstruction funding? To what extent is there something like a Nuremberg trial that holds Russians accountable for mass documented war crimes, including the systematic theft of thousands and thousands of Ukrainian children? These are the things that have to be talked about after the big leaders meet. So in any negotiation you have this grand gesture moment where both sides signal a willingness to sit down that usually unlocks the possibility of a ceasefire."
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Anchorage, Alaska – 13 August 2025
4. Various shots showing the gate and cars entering Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska
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Washington – 13 August 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Benjamin Jensen, Center For Strategic & International Studies, Director of the Futures Lab:
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