Why would the Trump administration invite Vladimir Putin back onto American soil? “We think it’s an opportunity for him to engage not just with the president, but with other world leaders,” Marco Rubio said of the White House’s offer to host Putin in Miami for this year’s G-20 summit. For its part, the Kremlin remains noncommittal.
The offer comes as the administration, at least when it comes to the war in Europe, is once again giving appeasement a try. The president is dispatching his all-purpose negotiating duo, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, to Moscow to cajole Putin while its principals, including Trump himself, scold the Ukrainians for so effectively imposing pain and pressure on their invaders’ homeland. If only Ukraine would give up the highly defensible Donbas, Kushner muses publicly. Then we’d have peace in our time.
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