News Summary

• Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet in Alaska later today.
• The meeting has become a comedy of errors before it’s even begun.
• The Kremlin has hijacked the agenda and turned the war in Ukraine into an afterthought.
• Trump has now drastically lowered the bar from “We’re going to get [the war] stopped” to “There is a 25% chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting.” The Kremlin seems to have no intention of even taking discussions about Ukraine seriously, instead banking on the Alaska summit as a way to win a grab bag of other prizes from Trump.