After ginning up a fake terrorism crisis in Crimea and massing troops on Ukraine’s borders, Putin pulled out of planned four-way talks with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Francois Hollande.
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Brian Whitmore: No Yalta in Hangzhou
Vladimir Putin was hoping to turn Hangzhou into Yalta. He was hoping to turn the G20 into Munich. And he failed.