RE: Trump - Putin meeting17 Feb 2025 18:30
The big concern with Trump-Putin - especially now that UK and EU are being excluded from any peace negotiations whatsoever despite having backed Ukraine solidly for 3 years and provided billions in arms/aid/support - is that Trump will hand Putin whatever he wants with little or no consideration for the consequences, and little or no consideration to what Ukraine or the Ukrainian people want or deserve.
Such an outcome would likely send Putin the message that he can do whatever he wants - as he has been allowed to for years e.g. Syria - and probably enable him to advance on Finland, Poland et al.
Trump, presumably, would say "not my problem" and leave the UK/EU to fight a war in Europe against Russia.
In that eventuality the value of our shares/investments would be the least of our worries.
Scary thoughts, scary times.