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Putin admits to failure that blows up Trump's big Alaska win

Anchorage Was Never a Deal. It Was a Narrative Laundered Into One.The Power That MattersThe source material shows the same basic fact from every angle: Russia held the initiative in the story, and Putin still held the veto. The supposed Alaska breakthrough was not a binding settlement, not a signed document, not even a durable understanding. It was a political story Kremlin officials sold for months, then quietly abandoned when the facts stopped cooperating.That is the real hierarchy here. Trump got framed as a dealmaker. Moscow got to test whether it could turn a summit into diplomatic…

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