‘Dear Neighbor’: A Red Carpet for Putin, No Ceasefire for Trump

What Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump shared in the back of the US presidential limousine on the short ride to their longest on-the-record meeting will likely remain a mystery.

There was a lot the two presidents left unsaid at the end of an inconclusive Alaska summit — most notably, they made no mention of a ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine, Trump’s stated goal in going into the talks. Their get-together was capped by one of the shortest news conferences Trump has ever held.