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Vladimir Putin walked away the victor in his meeting with Donald Trump in Alaska.
By MAX BOOT
Washington Post August 16, 2025
U.S. leaders and their Soviet or Russian counterparts have met many times in the more than eight decades since Franklin D. Roosevelt journeyed to Tehran in 1943 for a summit with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. The Friday meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Alaska was far from the worst. But it wasn’t good, either, except from the Kremlin’s vantage point.
