{"id":301415,"date":"2025-08-25T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=301415"},"modified":"2025-08-19T08:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T07:32:42","slug":"pursuing-fake-peace-alaska-summit-shows-just-how-intellectually-peace-poor-the-western-world-has-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/08\/pursuing-fake-peace-alaska-summit-shows-just-how-intellectually-peace-poor-the-western-world-has-become\/","title":{"rendered":"Pursuing Fake Peace: Alaska Summit Shows just How Intellectually Peace-poor the Western World Has Become"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo manipulated by the author, based on \u201cUS 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.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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…<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

16 Aug 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0Here is CNN\u2019s take-away<\/a> from the \u201cPursuing Peace\u201d Summit in Anchorage yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeacemaking\u201d is now reduced 3 hours of dry bread and circus. International political diplomacy is replaced by appearance, (chaotic) performance and body language.<\/p>\n

And dealmaking instead of peacemaking – and, in this case, no deal.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Thousands of groupthink<\/em> media people obviously believed that this was the world’s most important event, 700 of them physically in Anchorage.<\/p>\n

Wow!! Putin said three words in English!!<\/p>\n

THIS is how the two Western leaders pursue their bizarre peace.<\/em><\/p>\n

THIS is how peace illiterate, how peace-poor, the Western world has become.<\/em><\/p>\n

As I hinted yesterday, it was a fart in an antique lantern.<\/p>\n

A Zoom would have been much better for the global environment and, perhaps, would have yielded something substantial.<\/p>\n

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Prof. Jan Oberg, Ph.D. is director of the independent <\/em>Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TF<\/a>F<\/a> in Sweden and a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. CV: <\/em>https:\/\/transnational.live\/jan-oberg<\/em><\/a>
\n<\/em>https:\/\/transnational.live<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original – thetransnational.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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