President Donald Trump has already blindsided Europe just by what has already happened concerning his hosting of Russia's Vladimir Putin in Alaska over a negotiation for ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine, New Yorker writer Susan Glasser told CNN's Jake Tapper.

"Susan, what did you make of the body language between President Trump and Vladimir Putin during their handshake, or the fact that Putin went into the Beast, or the fact that Trump was applauding him, and on and on. What did you think of that?" asked Tapper.

Glasser, who co-wrote a book with her husband, Peter Baker, on Putin's rise to totalitarianism, had a number of thoughts.

"I mean, you can say, Jake, while the meeting itself is ongoing and we don't know how the summit will be remembered by history, I think it's fair to say we do know two of the indelible images that will come out of this summit, and that is the president of the United States of America greeting Russia's president, the man who launched the largest and deadliest war in Europe since the end of World War II, greeting him with applause and a literal, not just a metaphorical, red carpet in Alaska."

"I think those are enduring images," she continued. "They are probably shocking images to many in Europe, to many in the United States, and of course, to people in Ukraine who believe that the United States was standing with them against this really quite unprecedented act of aggression. And in that sense, Donald Trump has already sent a pretty shocking and disruptive message in international diplomacy."

"Now, the difference is that Putin — this is his fifth American president, and it's not his first go round with Donald Trump," Glasser added. "Putin has a long-term strategic goal in mind. He decided to try to revise the terms of the Cold War defeat [of] the Soviet Union, and he has embarked upon that. There's no sign of him wanting to give in for half-measures at all. And, you know, Donald Trump is a guy who wants to win the next news cycle, you know, who thinks in 10-minute, you know, Twitter increments. I don't think that's how Putin is approaching this meeting today."

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