Experience with False Promises

Some wonder what might be accomplished by the Trump/Putin face to face engagement. Peskov is calm and deliberate in his assertion that there is nothing to fear from the talks, for agreements will be trivial, meant to provide a show of "resolution". The achievements that Russia has made in liberating the peoples of the Donbas stands without any further disingenuous "agreements" with the "agreement incapable". Russia enters into the conversation with the experience of the past firmly in mind. Yet converse they must, for isolation breeds something worse than the "long con".