Trump's talks with Putin on August 15, 2025

Introduction

1. A promising event?

2. Zelensky after the negotiations. His approach and steps after mid-August. A brief chronology.

3. Trump and his maneuvers in the second half of August. What for and for whom.

4. And what about Putin?

5. The most eventful time in August and the real developments.

6. Trump and what the star Alphard has to do with it.

7. The United States and the fate of the geopolitical framework. The potential of late August and September 2025. Ukraine, Putin.

Main Forecast

A great deal is happening around the negotiations between Trump and Putin. To some extent, this is always an opportunity for journalists and bloggers to exploit the topic. As a rule, the stakes on such events are high. But I would not be so inspired or follow the general euphoria. Not because the meeting will be ineffective. On the contrary, here we will be able to see quite beautiful gestures from the Russian president, and a little later from Trump himself. Still, the most important events will take place at the very end of August. Yes, one could say after August 20, 2025.

It is precisely the period between mid- and late August 2025 that will become a kind of interference of waves, which in places will turn into bubbling geysers of events. After all, around August 22–25, 2025 Zelensky will unfold his range of actions, with the temporary hope of nevertheless turning the situation toward his own game. He will undertake unexpected trips and even attempt to behave aggressively, bluffing and creating an appearance of strength. And, of course, this will be instigated by his handlers. For now…

It must be said that Trump himself, around August 16, 2025, will already be making maneuvers, as if leaving room for “various decisions.” And all of this will be a highly awkward diplomatic situation, in which the unambiguity of his decision will clearly be lacking. And for Russia, closer to August 18, 2025, this will look provocative. Perhaps this is precisely what will give Zelensky some hope, and he will try to take advantage of it. But it will be a cunning move, as it will seem to Trump. A move to create this tension and make it an instrument of further pressure.

It must be said that Putin will not be unambiguous either, especially closer to August 22, 2025. But this is all a path toward the necessary promising agreements. And on his part, it will look more elegant from the standpoint of diplomacy.

And indeed, the most eventful time should fall around August 29, 2025. This is the time when a great deal will truly begin to shift seriously in the geopolitical landscape. This is the time when Trump will be tempted by the thought of his own godlike nature. And his peacemaking activity, as he imagines it, will be grotesquely theatricalized. Let me say at once that the well-known star Alphard will be at work here, and that means great opportunities and great temptation. A great deal will truly depend on Trump at this time. And if he does not become completely intoxicated by a sense of his own importance, then much of what is called evil may be brought to an end. We know quite a few heroes with ambiguous fates and actions in whom this star was pronounced, such as Che Guevara. Of course, these heroes should not be equated here, but this is precisely the paradox in which good and evil are intertwined in one inseparable knot. After all, behind Che Guevara were mass executions and terrorist attacks, which people are not especially accustomed to discussing. Yet his name was elevated onto a pedestal as a fighter against evil, a patriot-liberator. Therefore, unambiguous judgments in such matters are an ungrateful task. But be that as it may, when considering in parallel the events and tendencies of such a global player as the United States, it is striking that, in a certain sense, a pronounced ideological turn is beginning; it can also be called a political turn, and all of this is happening at the very end of August. Yes, you may reproach me by saying that this turn has been observable for a long time, and you would be right. But based on planetary indicators, this situation becomes especially emphasized by its karmic irreversibility precisely at this time. That is why I am writing about it. And it will become a trend, despite the fact that the main turbulence and resistance are still ahead. All this is beginning to change the entire geopolitical structure and framework so profoundly that, of course, September 2025, with its eclipse-related accents, will not allow this to be reproduced so easily.

And of course, the end of August may become a time for Ukraine to attempt to act even more aggressively. But not for long. By around September 3, 2025, Ukraine will have to give up much, and by mid-September 2025 experience an even more obvious destruction of itself. And, as I have said more than once, September 2025 may become one of the most difficult months. And probably after September 21, 2025, it will be possible to say that now it is Putin's turn.