ALASKA 2025: Peace Scam – Devil’s Deal

Against the background of the growing and deepening economic crisis in the world, on August 15 in Alaska a meeting took place between the leaders of two powers — America and Russia — which the entire world press hurried to present as “peace negotiations”! Usually “peace negotiations” are conducted between warring countries, but representatives of the second warring side — Ukraine — were not invited to the meeting, since the state affairs of this territory have long been decided in the offices of Washington and Wall Street, while in the office of the president of Ukraine English, American, German and French advisers sit with the “fighting” generals.

It is clear to everyone that America is waging a hybrid war against Russia; it openly demonstrates its great-power arrogance over Ukraine, taking key decisions in this conflict. The president of America presents himself as a sort of benefactor, yet does not forget at every convenient moment to mention profit and percentage, polemicizing against the war.

It is obvious to anyone who knows how to look beyond the showcase of diplomatic smiles and fanfaronade that the developing economic and political events in the world against the background of the world crisis compel one to doubt the firmness of the capitalist invincibility of the USA — even the most unbelieving ones! Needless to say that the crisis will deliver a crushing blow to all such illusions. It is now difficult to find a worker — be it in America, in Russia, in Europe or in any other country — who, after bankruptcies and ruin, after wholesale militarization and the fall of the living standard, will agree to believe in the fairy-tale of “universal enrichment” under capitalism. These illusions have finally lost their power. Life itself unmasks them faster than any speeches can do.

It is obvious that the world gendarme — America — needs to strengthen its shaken economic position. Therefore its representatives hurry to patch up the old system of plunder and strangulation. The meaning of their haste is clear: to fatten themselves at someone else’s expense and prolong the existence of orders that have long outlived their time.

So-called “dialogue about peace” turned out to be a conversation not about stopping the war, but about the price of its continuation and expansion, about the price of redivision of markets and spheres of influence, about the price of life of the capitalist world. Behind every word about “stability” lies a calculation — how many billions of profit can be squeezed by Western capital from Russian land.

The military actions in Ukraine have been turned into an object of bargaining. The American side speaks of “partial cease-fire”, of “humanitarian corridors”. But all this is only a screen covering the division of markets and raw materials.

The “historic meeting” of the presidents of America and Russia in Alaska is nothing but BARGAINING.

A) The contradictions between the major imperialist countries are being laid bare and sharpening. The struggle is for markets, for raw materials, for export of capital. The old distribution of spheres of influence and colonies no longer satisfies anyone. The correlation of forces has changed — therefore markets, sources of raw materials, spheres of influence must be redivided. The chief of these contradictions is the contradiction between the USA and China. Both in the field of export of goods and in the field of export of capital the struggle is conducted mainly between America and China. The main arena of struggle is the territory of the former USSR. The advantage of forces — definitely — is on the side of the USA.

Besides the chief contradiction, other imperialist frictions are growing: between America and England, Germany and France, France and Italy, and so on. As the crisis deepens the struggle for markets, raw materials and capital will sharpen day by day. Means of struggle: customs wars, cheap goods, cheap credit, military-political alliances, growth of armaments and preparations for new imperialist wars. And the end — war.

Today practically all branches are seized by crisis. But there is one branch knowing no fall — the war industry. It is growing in spite of crisis. The imperialists arm frantically not for conversation, but for war. War is the only method of redivision of the world. Therefore the pacifism of liberals and social-democrats is only a mask to cover the preparation of new wars. The League of Nations is rotting alive, the “projects of disarmament” collapse into the abyss, and conferences on limitation of naval armaments turn into conferences on renewal and enlargement of the naval fleets. The danger of war will grow at an accelerated rate.

B) Contradictions are sharpening also inside the European Union, chiefly around Germany. With the deepening of crisis, the pressure upon the FRG as the principal engine of the EU economy increases. Formally Germany lives in the euro, but depends upon the dollar (raw materials, foreign debts, trade, armament contracts).

• The state debt of Germany (€2.7 trillion) is serviced under conditions when the policy of the U.S. Federal Reserve System and the dollar rate dictate the rules of the game.
• A hard dollar → increasing pressure upon Germany.
• Demands of the USA “to increase defense expenditures” → a mechanism of redistribution of debt pressure.
• Germany directs taxpayers’ budgets to purchase American armaments, thereby:
  • supporting American industry,
  • covering part of its dollar dependence,
  • strengthening the strategic tie to the USA.

To think that the German bourgeoisie will be able to squeeze €649 billion from the German working class to load the U.S. military-industrial complex during 2025–2029 — without convulsions — means to go mad. Let the politicians pretend that they believe — sane people do not believe in miracles.

C) The contradictions between the imperialist powers and the colonial and dependent countries are being laid bare and sharpening. The growing crisis intensifies the pressure upon the colonies as sources of raw materials and markets. The European bourgeoisie is actually at war with its colonies from India and Southeast Asia to North Africa. “A fox full of hypocritical saintliness… but ready to lie like the devil…” — as Shakespeare truly said.

D) The contradictions between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat are being laid bare and sharpening. The crisis has already managed to increase the pressure of the capitalists upon the working class. The crisis has already managed to call forth a new wave of capitalist rationalisation, a new worsening of the position of the working class, a growth of unemployment, an enlargement of the permanent army of the unemployed, a lowering of wages. It is not surprising that these circumstances are revolutionising the situation, sharpening the class struggle and pushing the workers to new class battles. The class struggle has not disappeared – bourgeois governments and their yellow hirelings simply mask it under local protests, and drown information in noises about “disturbances” or “security checks”. Harsh collective workers’ actions are taking place practically in all core countries, and the bourgeoisie suppresses them by violent methods, while the bourgeois press presents them as mere “incidents”.

• United States. In the summer of 2025 an active campaign of workers’ demonstrations was unfolding, especially in key branches — automobile industry, logistics, medicine, aviation and ports. Police and federal structures repeatedly resorted to methods of forceful suppression, demonstrating that democracy ends where the struggle of labour against capital begins.
• England. An active wave of labour meetings was taking place in the country. The British press tried to avoid the words “class struggle”, replacing them by the expressions “public disruption” and “security incidents”. Real mass cluster arrests and forceful dispersals — in London and in the regions, especially along the RMT/ASLEF (transport) and GMB (logistics) lines.
• France and Germany. The wave of summer workers’ protests was met by a series of strikes of communal service workers, transport and refuse processing. In Paris, Marseilles, Nantes, Rouen the strikes of dustmen and public transport personnel were dispersed by police with truncheons and gas. The workers of the airports Paris–Orly and CDG held meetings against personnel reduction. In Toulon and Marseilles strikes of dockers and port workers were registered, suppressed by gendarmerie.
• Germany. The so-called “quiet wave” of strikes: mass strikes and meetings with participation of the Ver.di trade union — municipal transport workers (Berlin, Bremen, Cologne, Dortmund), as well as transport service workers in Leipzig with placards against the “freezing of wages” — were dispersed by police using force. In Hamburg the protest of loaders of Amazon and the logistics of DHL led to open clashes with the riot police (Bereitschaftspolizei).
• Russia. Mass class battles take place under a veil of silence of the mass media. June 2025 — Norilsk, strike of the shift workers of Norilsk Nickel (demand of wage indexation) — more than 250 persons, quickly crushed by police, several detained. July 2025 — Togliatti, AvtoVAZ plant: about 170 workers tried to go out with placards about non-payment of bonuses — were dispersed by riot police, 12 detained. July 2025 — Yakutia, construction teams of Velesstroy went on strike because of non-payment of wages — dispersed by force, up to 30 persons detained.

What do all these facts say? That the stabilisation of capitalism is coming to an end. That the rise of the revolutionary movement of the masses will grow with renewed force. That the world economic crisis will in a number of countries grow over into a political crisis. This means, first, that the bourgeoisie will seek a way out by further fascisation in the sphere of internal policy, using for this purpose all reactionary forces, including the social-democracy and the right. This means, secondly, that the bourgeoisie will seek a way out in a new imperialist war in the sphere of external policy. This means, finally, that the proletariat, struggling against capitalist exploitation and the military danger, will seek a way out in revolution.

And so the world bourgeoisie, crowned and uncrowned, is trying to postpone this collapse, trying within the framework of agreement to strengthen its stronghold, its citadel of capital — America. And what are the means of this strengthening? — blackmail and currency.

And so by blackmail and currency they lure into their “embrace” the representative of the chief arena of struggle — the pseudo-autocratic government of Russia. Russia, in its turn, accepts this proposal not looking into the future — just to obtain money — for the Russian rouble is not properly secured: neither by a mass of goods, nor by production, nor by a system of economic measures. The whole “successfulness” of the economic life of today’s Russia is built upon the export of raw materials, without backing by an industrial-productive base. Added to this are military expenditures which pump billions of dollars daily out of the treasury. The Russian economic life strongly depends on imports, which means it is under currency, political and economic dependence upon foreign capitalists. This means that abroad — be it in New York (USA) or any other country — in banking and other institutions there is a lever which can bring about a currency or commodity catastrophe.

There was not a drop of diplomacy in the fact that the bourgeois world mass media were staging a performance under the title of the “historic meeting in Alaska”. It was bargaining at the pillory, where a Moscow vassal arrived to the American suzerain in order to report on his obedience on his knees and to beg for the right to continue to present himself as a “great geopolitician” on the screens of Russian television. The American financial houses, through the governments placed by them, whether Biden or Trump, are sucking billions of dollars out of Ukraine, turning it into a colony. They have already laid their paws on the entire economy and have obliged the country to pay exorbitant sums. The English bourgeoisie and the whole pack in the face of the European Union have joined this, intensifying the ruin.

Russia is caught in pincers. It faces two ways. The first is complete surrender into a joint enterprise with China. Here China will exert political influence on the fate of Russia, its capitalist conglomerates will take the supreme position, and the Russian forces will be subordinated. The second way is a deal with the Americans, where the Russian oligarchs will be left a symbolic share for the sake of preserving their accustomed power. The Russian government is afraid of Chinese control and therefore prefers the American “big shots”, even at the price of the final subjugation of the country.

In order to charm the public, before the meeting the mass media scattered words about “peace”, “stability”, but in twenty-four hours the real content of the deal became known: Sakhalin-1 passes under the control of ExxonMobil — an oil concern of the Rockefeller group.

The last masks are removed here. This is not negotiations, but a surrender of positions, committed in exchange for personal inviolability. In addition, everything was accompanied by a boom on the stock-exchange market — in a word, the meeting turned into a stock-jobbing game of modern bankocracy.

The Kremlin has put up for sale what it still has left: oil, gas, grain, metals and promises of “stable deliveries”. The American capitalists presented the Russian government with loans. The baseness of these secret negotiations behind closed doors implies the placing of the state debt of the RF on the American market, by which (debts) a deficit of incredible scale is covered. But those very loans which will cover the deficit demand, in the long run, an increase of taxes in Russia. By 2025 there had been formed an enormous hole in the state budget of the RF of military expenditures; the internal market is ceasing “to digest” the placing of bonds (the banks are already themselves overloaded with OFZ). The state debt, that is to say alienation of the state — it is all the same: despotic, constitutional, or republican. The only part of the so-called wealth which is actually in the common possession of modern peoples is their state debts. It is like in England all public institutions are called “royal”, but the debts there are “national”.

At the present time American hegemony drags after itself trade-financial hegemony. America and allied capital (Gesellschaften) have received: mines, oil, aluminium, gas. As is known, the Rockefeller companies — ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and also the trader houses connected with them Vitol, Glencore and Trafigura — besides political power in Russia, have achieved an exclusive monopoly of trade in oil and gas and generally in trade with China, and moreover, in their own hands has been concentrated the monopoly of transportation of commodities into Europe through the sea lines Maersk, MSC, CMA CGM and Hapag-Lloyd.

The treasures extracted beyond the borders of Europe by means of plunder, the enslavement of the Russian people, the mass destruction of it, flow into the metropolises and are converted into capital.

It is impossible not to allot in the article a couple of paragraphs to Ukraine. On August 18, 2025 the television studios of Ukraine were working from night till dawn. All this nightly Ukrainian watching by the screens is not an expectation of an “historic denouement”, but a phenomenon of colonial order, when a vassal territory waits to know what new directives their governor will bring from the metropolis. Such behaviour sadly only emphasises the fact that the deceived Ukrainian people silently acknowledge: the fate of the country is decided not in Kiev, but in Washington.

In the given case President Zelensky plays the rôle of a young courier who is entrusted to bring from the masters the “ration and the order”. The whole rhetoric of the meeting was reduced to one thing — whether Ukraine would receive new sugar and powder. But America gave neither peace, nor the promised “victory”, nor a plan of “post-war restoration”. It is clear to everyone that America thinks not about the future of Ukraine, but about how to capitalise upon the blood of the Ukrainian people.

The Ukrainian people, having stood the night by the screens, heard only propagandist crackling:

• “we shall stand to the end”,
• “America approves our firmness”,
• “the world needs peace” …

In fact — America needs a protracted conflict, profitable to the stock exchanges, oil barons and industrial capitalists, who have plunged headlong into this armaments race. The meeting failed not because no agreement was reached, but because an agreement was reached on something completely different — not on the fate of Ukraine, but on the controlled duration of its agony. Zelensky appeared on Bankova Street not with news of victory, but with a new yoke of conditions under which it is required to mortgage the last scraps of national industry, medicine and education. It must be spoken plainly: owing to the skinflint rule of the so-called Ukrainian “élite”, Ukraine is being pulled to pieces by international dealers, unable to withstand the predatory redivision of the world.

Slavery is the only natural basis of colonial wealth. To a certain extent it is observed in the new American colonies: Moldavia, Ukraine, Central Asia, Transcaucasia — where the passion for land property and minerals is the imperialist centre of attraction.

Today the soldiers fighting on both sides of the conflict are told that they must defend their “fatherland”. But the truth is that even the deepest patriot, believing he is defending the Fatherland, returning with a maimed body and a broken fate, begins to see what in the rear is called a lie, but at the front it is impossible to conceal: trade in organs, sale of strategic frontiers, conscious prolongation of the war for the sake of profit. What is important is that the Russian and Ukrainian soldier understands and realises that he sheds his blood not for his Fatherland, not for his territory, not for his future, but for oil concessions, dividends of ExxonMobil and the greedy contracts of armament concerns. And when a soldier, crippled physically and morally, returns to a ruined village in Chernigovshchina or to a neglected settlement near Tula — he is faced with the harsh reality of his uselessness to society, he begins to ask the accursed question: “I am forgotten and abandoned, a cripple unable to earn my bread by labour … I despise this government of ‘escort, yachts and idle life’ … for whose sake did I fight? for which ‘fatherland’? for whose power?”

On the field of battle the masks fall faster than political speeches — one cannot hide there behind a studio background, it is clear there that it is not presidents, not ministers, not policemen, not oligarchs or priests who die — it is the engine-driver, the miner, the teacher, the peasant, the student who die. Those perish whom the bourgeois government, this ruthless machine of the capitalist regime, has branded as “weak social links”, whom it has recognised as “superfluous”, thus declaring them class-condemned. The source of their enslavement is the stock exchange.

The stock exchange is nothing other than the concentrated power of capital. It concentrates in a few hands the results of the labour of whole peoples and turns them into a means of speculation. In the nineteenth century it subordinated industry and trade, in the twentieth century — the colonies of Africa and Asia, in the twenty-first — it has already subordinated to itself whole states of Europe and the East. Ukraine, Moldavia, Central Asia, Transcaucasia, Russia itself — all this has been placed at the service of the stock-exchange houses of New York, London, Frankfurt and Shanghai. Here it is not production that is decided, but the destinies of peoples, for every factory, every tract of land, every seam of coal and oil appears only as a pledge for a loan, as an instrument for the game of shareholders and capitalists.

The stock exchange is the highest manifestation of the parasitism of capital. It tears wealth away from its source — living labour — and turns it into abstract paper, which is disposed of by the few. It is precisely through the stock exchange that the capitalist system turns the working masses into an appendage of stock quotations: a fall in the rate means the ruin of thousands of families, a rise in shares — the poverty of millions.

So long as the stock exchange exists, the workers and peoples will remain the slaves of its speculators. Only by destroying private property in land and factories, only by liquidating the very base of the stock-exchange power, will the proletariat be able to restore the wealth of society into its own hands. Only then will the stock exchange — this altar of dead capital — collapse, and labour will cease to be the object of trade and of the backstage gloomy deals of capitalist governments.

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

Author of the Article
Johann Heinrich Exclusively for EasternPost
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Release Date: August 20, 2025
Publisher: The Eastern Post, London-Paris, United Kingdom-France, 2025.