Pursuing Peace. 🇺🇸🇷🇺 pic.twitter.com/d9VqKzpF6g
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 15, 2025
Timofey Bordachev: History is full of high-level talks that preceded war rather than preventing it.
Alexander Bobrov: And so the true symbolic takeaway from Anchorage is not just that it happened, but that it signals a new phase. After decades of reflexive Cold War confrontation, Moscow and Washington are learning to navigate what might best be called a Cold Peace. Like an Alaskan summer, it feels chilly at first – northern, austere, forbidding. But stay awhile, and the frost gives way to a surprising warmth, a climate where coexistence, if not friendship, becomes possible.
