So it turns out that Trump spent about an hour with Putin during a reception at the G-20 meeting. That won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has participated in some sort of an adolescent social event.
Even Trump has to be sensitive to the fact that Merkel and the other European leaders don’t approve of him. How better to deal with that than to snub the authority figures and hang out with the other bad boy in the group?
Policy changes have come from less than this.