Washington Post: “If this meeting is just to set the table for another meeting, that raises the question: Why go through all the heartburn and scare European allies with a bilateral summit with Putin? Couldn’t this meeting have been an email?”


Washington Post: “If this meeting is just to set the table for another meeting, that raises the question: Why go through all the heartburn and scare European allies with a bilateral summit with Putin? Couldn’t this meeting have been an email?”
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