Isincerely hope that The Telegraph is wrong about this , and not just because I have no desire to see Zombie William Seward rise from the dead and pitch a tent in Lafayette Park, across the street from the president’s Gilded Palace of Sin—and thanks again, Gram.

The U.S. president will arrive at the much-anticipated meeting with his Russian counterpart on Friday armed with a number of money-making opportunities for Putin. They will include opening up Alaska’s natural resources to Moscow and lifting some of the American sanctions on Russia’s aviation industry, The Telegraph can reveal.

As well as lifting sanctions, The Telegraph can now reveal that the U.S. is preparing to offer Putin other financial incentives to end the war, including access to rare earth minerals in the areas

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