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Trump, Putin and the Alaska summit at the end of the world

Countries which understand that our new multipolar world order involves living with a brazenly self-interested US may do best at adapting.

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US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, seen here in Helsinki in 2018, are set to meet in Alaska on Aug 15.

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, seen here in Helsinki in 2018, are set to meet in Alaska on Aug 15.

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Samir Puri

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All eyes are fixed on Anchorage, Alaska and the

putative summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin

The meeting will undoubtedly be an exercise in great power politics. On the table: the land grab from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite the latter’s

glaring omission

from the summit. 

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