What’s happening on Friday at a U.S. military base in Anchorage Alaska is a big deal that will be watched around the world.
When a president of the United States and the president of Russia meet, anywhere and any time, it always big news.
But this meeting has historians looking back 80 years ago to 1945 when after World War II, the leaders of the U.S., Britain and Russia met in the Black Sea port of Yalta not far from what is Ukraine to draw lines on the map that gave some eastern European countries to the Soviet Union.
And it was this week in 1961 that East German soldiers began laying down barbed wire as a barrier between Soviet controlled East Berlin and democratic West Berlin.
And that’s why Friday’s meeting will be very closely watched around the globe.
The meeting of course is about how to end Russia’s war with Ukraine with expectations ranging from hopeful to dreadful.
Here in San Diego where tens of thousands of sailors and Marines are always standing by ready to defend our country and others when needed, the hope is that whatever happens at Friday’s summit in Alaska it brings us closer to peace than more war.
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