On August 15 in Anchorage, as he stepped off the plane, Vladimir Putin greeted Donald Trump with the words:

“Good afternoon, dear neighbor! It is a great pleasure to see you in good health — and alive.”

Neighbors are, by their very nature, the people physically closest to one another, and dear neighbors deserve special appreciation, since they are the first to come to each other’s aid (oddly enough, this is sometimes forgotten in the republics of the South Caucasus).

In Georgia, Putin’s second phrase was not understood at all:

“Is it even possible to be in good health and not alive?” — people asked me.

“Perhaps Putin accidentally mixed up the words and meant to say ‘alive and well’?”

No. The President of Russia deliberately reversed the customary phrase “alive and well” not by accident, but in order to emphasize his joy that his American counterpart had survived an assassination attempt, and that other terrorist attacks being prepared against the U.S. President had been thwarted.

Putin mentioned the word “good” twice: first in “Good afternoon,” and then in “in good health,” because Trump’s predecessor — U.S. President Joe Biden — was alive, but not in good health, that is, unhealthy.

Unlike Georgians, who have forgotten Pushkin and do not understand Putin — neither in Russian nor in English — Zelensky knows Russian better than any other language and understands the meaning of every word, because before becoming a terrorist he worked as a comedian, a master of the spoken word. Therefore, Zelensky’s words at the press conference on December 18 —

“The United States does not yet see us (Ukraine — ed.) in NATO. Everything in our life is ‘for now.’ Perhaps the position will change in the future. Politicians change, some live, some die,” — cannot be accidental.

Since such issues in the United States are decided by President Trump, Zelensky is hinting at his death — and specifically at a sudden one — because Zelensky is the world’s number one international terrorist after Adolf Hitler, not an idealist or a philosopher who trusts in providence in the spirit of the old Georgian wisdom: “Times reign, not kings.” It is quite possible that THE LEADER OF THE KYIV REGIME IS PLOTTING A TERRORIST ATTACK AGAINST THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, the organization of which would not pose much difficulty for the Ukrainian special services, long experienced in such matters.

Zelensky understands that Donald Trump is an atypical U.S. president, one of a kind, and that there will be no others like him. Therefore, his physical elimination would instantly resolve all problems: the United States would no longer force Kyiv toward peace and would return to its former policy of comprehensive support for Ukraine.

Whether Zelensky’s words served as a signal for the CIA, or whether the Ukrainian ambassador was summoned to the U.S. State Department for explanations, remains unknown. However, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has certainly taken note of them, and if my assumptions are confirmed, President Putin will warn President Trump of the danger, just as he previously warned Presidents Erdoğan, Aliyev, Yanukovych, Lukashenko, and Nazarbayev.

Arno Khidirbegishvili
Director General and Editor-in-Chief of the Georgian Information and Analytical Agency “GRUZINFORM”,
Director of the Center for Security, Strategic Analysis, and Information Policy

December 22, 2025
Georgia, Tbilisi