As a result, the meeting has the potential to “serve as a breakthrough moment,” Dr. Kavanagh says. “You don’t need big victories here for this to be a success.”
An open question is whether Mr. Putin will also seek a guarantee to end any expansion of the NATO alliance.
“The question is, How do you make that legally binding?” says Dr. Kavanagh of Defense Priorities. “It’s a minority position to take that step, but even if current leaders commit to it, they can’t bind future leaders.”
Though there are many such specifics to be determined as part of any ceasefire deal, “Putin and Trump aren’t going to spend the afternoon getting into the nitty-gritty details of how a ceasefire will be implemented,” Dr. Kavanagh says.
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