Andrew C. Kuchins
Security, Americas
A relatively normal first meeting between Russian and American leaders is a good thing.
At long last, nearly six months after his inauguration, Donald Trump finally had the opportunity to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin for more than two hours on Friday at the G-20 summit in Hamburg. Cable-news networks spent the weekend buzzing, as pundits dissected the meeting to determine who won and lost what in this battle of global titans. The meeting was newsworthy mainly because it happened, not so much because of the modest agreements that emerged from it.
But for a bilateral relationship that …read more
Source: The National Interest
