Putin’s Alaska triumph

 https://www.politico.eu/article/putins-alaska-triumph/

While that didn’t happen and Ukraine wasn’t sold out, Putin still appears to have got the most out of the encounter.

He secured the meeting, notwithstanding being a wanted man for war crimes, and was greeted on American soil as a friend, not the leader of a pariah state that invaded a sovereign neighbor.

And he got all this without agreeing any major concessions, including a ceasefire, beforehand — and left Anchorage without having committed to a truce either, despite Trump saying during their joint press conference that his Russian counterpart is keen to save thousands of lives. Apparently not that keen.