“Overall, Putin left the summit as the bigger winner of the two,” says Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow and director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, a Washington think tank promoting a realist U.S. foreign policy.
“But it’s also true that Putin didn’t achieve his objective of significantly solidifying U.S.-Russia relations by returning home with a bunch of bilateral deals on things like the Arctic and space,” she adds. “So in a sense, Trump did seem to stick to his initial position of keeping the summit focused on Ukraine.”
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