Isolated, confined and safe. The Elmendorf Air Base, which will thank Alaska, the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at 9:30 pm (French time) this Friday, August 15 was not chosen at random.
The US military site is immense, as three times the city of Paris, and ultra protected. Figures, barbed wire, control points with entry points … In addition to permanent facilities linked to the military base, security means are drastic to protect two of the most powerful, and threatened personalities, of the planet.
The airspace will also close above and around the facilities. So many conditions that have satisfied the Kremlin and allowed the arrival of Vladimir Putin to the scene, which has moved very little abroad since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
There Base seal D’EllEndorf is the largest military base in Alaska and houses more than 32,000 people, or about 10% of Anchorage population according to Skynews. Among them, “more than 6,000 soldiers of all branches of the US and Canadian armed forces,” as the Pacific Air Force site of the Pacific of the Pacific of the PacificUnited States Army.
A “particularly important” base during the Cold War
Therefore, about 7,600 kilometers while the crow fly from kyiv, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet this Friday for the first time since June 28, 2019, near Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska. It will also be Vladimir Putin’s first visit in the city since his arrival at Kremlin.
A “face to face” meeting, according to the main correspondent of the White House For CNN Kaitlan Collinsin the blink of an eye to history. Alaska only became American in 1867 when the United States bought this vast territory, which is still the largest state in the country to the Russian empire.
According to the American Congress Library, cited by several Anglo -Saxon media, this military base was also considered “particularly important” to defend the United States against the former Soviet Union.
Alaska, a former Russian territory that has changed, therefore, changed his hand in history for the benefit of the United States. A historical parallel that could benefit from the current Chief of Kremlin.
“We can easily imagine Putin to advance this argument during his meetings with Trump:” Listen, the territories can change hands, “said Nigel Gould-Davies, former British ambassador to Belarus to our SkyNews colleagues.
In Alaska, the arrival of the Russian president is not to everyone’s taste. Yesterday, several dozen protesters opposed their arrival, especially with the “Putin War Criminal” signs.
Source: BFM TV
