“Hillary Clinton: I’d Support Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize — If He Actually Earns It”

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The summit, the stakes — and the optics

Trump’s high-stakes meeting with Putin will mark their first face-to-face in six years. Ahead of the summit, he made it clear that Russia faces “very severe” consequences if peace talks don’t progress.

Putin, meanwhile, is sending top brass, including foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, who drew attention by arriving in a Soviet-branded sweatshirt.

The summit’s location at a U.S. military base is being seen as a bold symbolic move that’s already drawing comparisons to historic meetings held in Anchorage, including Nixon’s 1971 sit-down with Japan’s Emperor Hirohito and Biden’s 2021 talks with Chinese officials.

A legacy moment in motion?

From bold warnings aboard Air Force One to public praise from past rivals, the moment is shaping up to be a defining test of Trump’s global leadership.

And for a president who’s long said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

This might be his clearest path yet to claiming it.