And just like that, the highly-anticipated summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska has been and gone, seemingly without very much at all to show for it. The two presidents met in Anchorage yesterday for what Trump had touted as a ‘feel-out’ meeting to lay the groundwork for negotiations to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. But despite Trump rating the tête-à-tête a ten out of ten – ‘in the sense that we got along great’ – on substance, the American president has come away with little to prove that Putin is any closer to stopping his invasion.

The signs for Ukraine don’t look promising. Trump has already started to publicly pile the pressure on Zelensky to ‘make a deal’ with Putin

Yesterday’s meeting was a historic event: this was the first time Trump and Putin had me

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