Alaska has certainly been a pinnacle of political drama. American President Donald Trump announced a meet-up with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, one week before, on Truth Social. Alaska was special because it is cold and far-off and had been a possession of the Russian Empire from 1732 to 1867, and also because the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute, and the ICC, which has issued Putin's arrest warrants.

The hearts of the world audience throbbed with the idea of world's two most powerful men meeting in a far-off, snow-clad fairyland, where Zeus Trump was surely going to end the battle of Titanomachy in Tartarus Ukraine with the help of Prometheus Zelensky, subduing Titan Putin with his thunderbolt sanctions to a complete defeat or at least a ceasefire drop-scene.

But reality is different from wishfulness. And the reality is that Putin is wining at the warfront. Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhian have been annexed as of 2022; and Crimea as of 2014. Kherson is over two-thirds occupied, and Russian forces are gaining more areas mile-by-mile in their continuous pursuit. Moreover, Putin's narrative of a cultural and historic unification in the people of Ukraine and Russia resounds stronger with the people of the conflict zone than Zelensky's claim that entering NATO and EU is the sovereign right and need of Ukraine.

Theoretically, wars end only when both sides perceive that peace is more beneficial for them than continuation of war. And war aims of both sides keep changing based on battlefield outcomes. The........

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