The US-Russia summit is without doubt a historic moment. President Vladimir Putin of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States met in Alaska on August 15. The widely circulated argument regarding the summit was that its agenda centred on halting the long-drawn war between Russia and Ukraine. Western legacy media had already framed the Trump-Putin summit as a "ceasefire meeting", even speculating on how and on what terms a ceasefire might be agreed between the two parties. Would Trump make concessions? Would there be a land swap? Would the American President facilitate a deal that effectively rewarded the aggressor, Putin? Western media devoted 24/7 airtime to internalising and ironing out this rhetoric before presenting it to the public as complex 3D or 4D chess moves.

Until the day of the summit in Alaska, the clearly displayed words "Pursuing Peace" had removed at least some of the cloudiness of speculation. They articulated the true intention of the meeting between the two presidents: the pursuit of peace, which, of course, requires a roadmap; political will; strategic understanding; and a focus on the........

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