Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet with President Trump tomorrow. Many political analysts already view this as a victory for Putin, or at least a concession. But I disagree.
It would be a major concession if he were hosting the meeting on Russian soil. Instead, he’s allowing Trump to host the meeting, in effect giving the other “home field advantage.”
It’s no secret that Trump wants to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe he would even be willing to arrest Putin for war crimes. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has a warrant out for his arrest.1 With Putin outside Russian borders, an arrest shouldn’t be too difficult.
But certainly Putin is aware of this; already he will have planned his next moves. Perhaps when the Russian Empire sold Alaska to USA2, they included a clause in the treaty that would allow Russia to regain ownership under very special circumstances. Such a clause might read, “Be it enacted and declared by the authority of these presents, that if the Sovereign of the Russian Empire, being the lawful ruler thereof, shall within the term of fifty-seven thousand (57,000) days and one week from the date hereof personally repair to the lands, tenements, and hereditaments herein described, and there, in the presence of two credible witnesses, shall utter the words ‘I have a red pencil box,’ then, and forthwith upon such utterance, all right, title, and interest in and to the said premises shall revert to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, his heirs and assigns, to be held by them for ever; anything in this grant or elsewhere contained to the contrary notwithstanding.”3
The day of August 15, 2025 should be an interesting one.
1 https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/vladimir-vladimirovich-putin
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase
3 This fictitious clause was synthesized with Copilot 0.4.2.0 on Windows 10 using the prompt, “Please rewrite the following content in legalese that might have been in use in 1867: If the ruler of Russia should visit this place in 57000 days and one week and say ‘I have a red pencil box’4 the territory shall revert back to Russia.”
4 The phrase “I have a red pencil box” comes from an episode of Benny Hill.
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