One picture said it all.

It wasn’t the casualness of his attire; that was understandable for such a long trip.

It was the logo — black lettering against a white background — on the sweatshirt:

CCCP

For those too young to recall the “good old days” of the Cold War, those are the Cyrillic letters for:

USSR

Without a word, that shirt told the world what Vladimir Putin is really doing in Alaska today: He is reasserting his country’s position in the world hierarchy . . . not just as the Russian Federation, but as the 21st century’s Union of Soviet Socialist Republics!

And on U.S. soil that once, long ago, belonged to the Russian Empire.

The summit is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. EDT (11:30 a.m. local time). But the scene has already been set . . . not by Donald Trump, but by a key member of Putin’s team in a photo op worth 1,000 words.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
8/15/25 – 10:45 a.m.