After the U.S. initiated a meeting with Putin to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin must have thought it would be hilarious to give the Order of Lenin , an award established in the Soviet era for "meritorious services to the Soviet state and society" to a leading Trump administraton official. Steve Witkoff accepted it happily, seemingly oblivious to the insult that was obvious to everyone else.

Compounding Witkoff's diplomatic faux pas (before Trump, Steve Witkoff had zero diplomatic experience, a billionaire real estate developer instead), "Trump's special envoy, Witkoff, is said to have completely misunderstood some of the Russians' statements and misinterpreted them as a concession from Putin." So now, when Putin and Trump meet in Alaska next weekend, they won't even b

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