Pursuing Fake Peace: Alaska Summit Shows just How Intellectually Peace-poor the Western World Has Become
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 25 Aug 2025
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service
Photo manipulated by the author, based on “US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose on the tarmac after arriving at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on 15 Aug 2025.
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images.”
Perhaps the most amazing thing is that media, commentators and many others seem to believe that peace might appear from such a bread and circus show…
16 Aug 2025 – Here is CNN’s take-away from the “Pursuing Peace” Summit in Anchorage yesterday.
“Peacemaking” is now reduced 3 hours of dry bread and circus. International political diplomacy is replaced by appearance, (chaotic) performance and body language.
And dealmaking instead of peacemaking – and, in this case, no deal.
NO substance. “Pursuing Peace” was the Summit slogan, the two old men elevated themselves in front of the best-killing war machines. What a lovely photo-opportunity for peace! Of course, at a military base.
Thousands of groupthink media people obviously believed that this was the world’s most important event, 700 of them physically in Anchorage.
Wow!! Putin said three words in English!!
THIS is how the two Western leaders pursue their bizarre peace.
THIS is how peace illiterate, how peace-poor, the Western world has become.
As I hinted yesterday, it was a fart in an antique lantern.
A Zoom would have been much better for the global environment and, perhaps, would have yielded something substantial.
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Prof. Jan Oberg, Ph.D. is director of the independent Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF in Sweden and a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment. CV: https://transnational.live/jan-oberg
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