The World’s Two Most Powerful Leaders will meet August 15th, 2025 in Alaska

By Bill Lindo

Belize City, August 13^th, 2025: This coming weekend, August 15th President Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States will meet in Alaska to discuss the Ukraine War and other geopolitical tensions in the world. These two men are the two most powerful men on planet Earth because both nations have nuclear weapons, in fact, Russia has the largest and best arsenal of nuclear weapons, followed by the United States in a close- second. Anyone of them has enough nuclear weapons to destroy all life on Earth within one hour — yes one hour.

Will there be an end to the conflict in Ukraine after the Summit?  We don’t know, but I really don’t think so because Russia cannot be bullied by the United States, and Trump cannot change US Foreign Policy.  Long before the United States, the Europeans, starting first with France, then United Kingdom and then, Germany all tried to destroy Russia — to conquer Russia — to make Russia subservient to them, and all of them have failed.

The French around 1810, had the greatest army in Europe under Napoleon Bonaparte, but messing around with the Russians caused the destruction the French Army and Bonaparte ended up in jail for the rest of his life.  The British around 1843 went after the Russians trying to take Crimea from Russia and nearly ended up losing the crown jewel of the British Empire, which was India at the time.  And then between 1941 and 1945 Germany which then had conquered Europe under Adolf Hitler went to the East and within three years the Russians not only defeated the Germans, it totally destroyed them, in fact, the Germans in 1941 had 240 divisions it was the largest army in the world at the time, but by 1945 the Americans and the British defeated 30 German divisions in Western Europe and on the Eastern Front the Russians destroyed 210 German divisions.

The price paid for that victory by the Russians (at that time they were called the Soviet Union) was the loss of 27,000,000 Russian lives.  The Americans lost less than 300,000 the British less than 1,000,000 and the Germans themselves lost about 3 or 4 million combatants, but Russia paid the ultimate price – 27 million lives for that victory over Nazi Germany, over Adolf Hitler.   Nobody has conquered Russia for the last 1,000 years of human history.

Even before the Second World War had ended in May 9^th 1945,  Winston Churchill, the then Prime Minister of UK had concocted a plan (codenamed “Operation Unthinkable”—check Google)  to invade Russia or the Soviet Union using defeated German soldiers, but the Americans said no-way as they didn’t think it would work, but that plan never went down in the dustbin of history.  Later Churchill steered U S President Harry Truman with his Fulton speech about an Iron Curtain over Europe to try and get the Americans to fight and destroy Russia (Soviet Union). In 1989 the Soviet Union fell apart and what was one country, the country splintered more than 15 different independent countries emerged, the largest, and most powerful being the Russian Federation.

However, the British and the other European oligarchs continue to try to defeat Russia to break Russia into at least five new countries, according to President Biden of the United States.  WHY?  Why are the Anglo-Americans and European Oligarchy so eager, so salivating, about ruling Russia.  Well, Russia has the largest landmass on Earth — it is larger than all other countries including India, China, the United States and Canada.  In early 2022, The United States and the Europeans under the banner of NATO sanctioned Russia because they said Russia had illegally invaded Ukraine.  What the mother of all sanctions revealed was the vast natural wealth of Russia. Of the fifty most important minerals/raw materials in world trade, Russia was either the leader in some forty, and no less than third in the other ten.  Russia was also the largest producer in grains, other foodstuffs and fertilizers. 

When President Trump was inaugurated as the new President of the United States last January 20^th, a look at the special invited guests revealed who are the rulers of the United States – all of the American Oligarchy were there.

President Trump is a politician and on Earth, the Oligarchy have always ruled. Less than 10% of the population are the real rulers of countries. China and Cuba are no different, except it’s not wealth nor money, but connections to the Party, the political party and who is your mentor that counts.  In the United States, you saw them on stage, the billionaires of Banks, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and of course AIPAC.

As long as these people don’t change US Foreign Policy, then Donald Trump cannot get a deal with President Putin of Russia.  In order to stay in the driver’s seat the west must destroy Russia and take control of the vast wealth of that country.  The Ukraine War, the Isreal – Iran conflict, and all the other conflicts in Asia are the same. The West is determined to control the wealth of the planet. Now they are losing this fight, but they will not stop trying to get back their control.  Russia will not yield, and neither will China, neither will India, nor Brazil.

The 500-year rule of the West, the G7 is over. But as one prominent American economist, recently remarked, we (the Americans) are in denial that we no longer control the World.  The expanded BRICS are the new rulers of the World.  And in the new pecking order, according to the World Bank “Purchasing Power Parity” (PPP), China is number one, USA is number two, India is number three, Russia is number four, Japan is number five, Germany is number six, and Brazil is number seven, followed by Indonesia, France and United Kingdom.

And here in our neck-of-the-woods, President Trump is having a field day showing the reality of America First. He is not a President of Latin American nor any Caribbean country, but the President of the United States of America, so whose interest comes first?  Thus, if Belizeans are working while Americans are not, because some US company runs to Belize for cheap wages, then he will stop such interests. Tariffs are a good way to punish wrong-headed people and make nations strong and Independent. Every single powerful nation-state has used tariffs to protect local manufacturing and strengthen itself.  But the United States has a problem, because it wishes to make the US Dollar the universal currency of the world, then the US must run a trade-deficit, or else investors will run away from the US greenback.  Wall Street cannot have its cake and eat it. The world is not like that.

But Belizeans have other options. It’s good news to hear that the President of Mexico, the Prime Minister of Belize and the President of Guatemala will meet this Friday August 15^th.

When the Peoples United Party (PUP) in 2018 was putting together its Manifesto for 2020, I lobbied for Belize to establish a railway link between Mexico, Belize and Guatemala to the Pacific Ocean for both passenger and cargo traffic between the three counties. My thinking is the way to solve the Guatemala-Belize dispute is to create a win-win situation.  A railway cargo link between Dangriga in Belize and Puerto Quetzal in Guatemala will create a land-bridge between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea opening trade to the Caribbean, to Central America and to Asia. This will solve the dispute, while the railway link to Mexico will allow tourism in the region to blossom.

I believe a railway connection between Mexico, Belize and Guatemala will be on the agenda this Friday.

We should pray that Prime Minister Briceno has a wonderful Summit this Friday. And in the meantime, we keep watch on the other Summit.

Long live Belize!

President  Trump of USA with President Putin of Russia.

President Arevalo of Guatemala, PM Briceno of Belize,  and President Sheinbaum of Mexico will have a Summit this Friday, august 15^th 2025.