As Russia continues to press for its demands to be met for next stage of peace talks while the US looks impatient for Ukraine truce, geopolitics experts say that the post-Alaska summit developments increasingly make it clear that Vladimir Putin outsmarted Donald Trump.

“The symbolism of Alaska would be a reminder of how it was possible for the United States and Russia for most of the 19th century to transcend their ideological and political differences and their expansionisms, to have warm, friendly cooperative relations,” says David S. Foglesong, a history professor at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.