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What can we learn from past summits before Trump-Putin meeting?

Summary by Channel 4
17m “Will he become my new best friend?” mused the owner of the Miss Universe Pageant, after inviting President Putin to the beauty parade in Moscow in 2013. Alas, the Russian leader was too busy with affairs of state to attend. He can’t have known that he was passing up a meeting with the future US president. Maybe he wouldn’t have gone even if he had known. The former KGB agent knows that keeping people waiting and guessing is a superpower. Fa…

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Presidential summits have always been an event with great opportunities - and great risks • Some leaders have managed to leverage these into summits, and others have acted with recklessness that has led to fateful consequences • A look at similar events in the past makes it clear why the current summit has ended without success, for now • There is already one winner, at least: the Russian ruler who returned from the frost of international ostrac…

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Channel 4 broke the news in London, United Kingdom on Friday, August 15, 2025.
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