When the G20 states met last year in Australia, Russian President Vladimir Putin walked out early because of the unrelenting criticism of his seizure of the Ukraine, the first military annexation of territory in Europe since Hitler’s Nazi German expansion.
This year in Turkey it has been so very different. Putin has been the center of attention at the G20 summit as Washington and the Europeans sought to woo him to join directly in the military campaign against Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS). Obama and Putin chose to go into a very public huddle in a corner of the summit, while …read more
Source: Saudi Gazette
