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President Trump has once again done the impossible: convincing a bunch of Europeans to take a work trip in the middle of August.

Zelensky is on the ground in DC this morning, and he brought his muscle. The leaders of the UK, Germany, Italy, France, NATO and the EU will join him at the White House this afternoon for a series of high-stakes meetings with the president and his team, coming after Trump's poorly-reviewed summit with Putin in Alaska on Friday. This story is being spun six ways from Sunday from all sides, so let's try to step back and take a sober look at what's happening.

The state of play here is that Putin reportedly told Trump in Anchorage what his conditions would be for not just a ceas

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