Before his Alaska summit Trump told the media, “There’ll be some land swapping going on … for the good of Ukraine. Between 1.6 and 2.5 million members of Ukraine’s Armed Forces are estimated to have been killed in action with similar numbers of wounded since February 2022. On 29 July 2025, Zelensky signed an order to allow men aged over 60 to join the armed forces. The NYT quotes an anonymous European intelligence chief on NATO’s role in Ukrainian armed operations, “Now they are part of the murder chain”. Today’s summit in Alaska is taking place because the US, UK and NATO have lost their war in Ukraine.