Subject: Re: Let’s See If This Pans Out for Putin
You don't need to invite Putin to U.S. soil for a one-on-one meeting with the POTUS. Both the U.S. and Russia have each have an entire foreign ministry full of people who maintain diplomatic channels. You shouldn't do a summit if you're trying to diplomatically isolate the country as a way of using every possible pain point to force them to stop the fighting in Ukraine.

It was worth a try to give Russia a chance to do the right thing. But Putin, in the spirit of Cersei Lannister, is choosing violence.

's a gift to Putin and his ability to argue that sentiments against his country aren't as extreme as anti-war folks make out to be, or might be permanently damaging.

Argue to who? And to what effect? According to you their economy is doomed in 12-18 months. When they’re boiling bark to eat they won’t care about some red carpet in Alaska.