Whatever mr trump tells his base (which is the only thing he cares about) Vlad will never disagree with him. So he will regale with tales of conquest. He will insist he confronted Vlad about meddling in our election, continued meddling which is apparent, or say he knows Russia NEVER MEDDLED AT ALL. He will talk about the invasion of Ukraine/Crimea and to stop invading OR he will credit Vlad with putting the Soviet Union back together again and say "good job". He will confront about the poisonings on British soil by Russian agents or he will say it was all FAKE NEWS and no one died. Dems were paid to act dead. He will confront dissect eviscerate Putin per his talltales after the fact or he will a**kiss shamelessly compliment pander to and be very yucky suckuppy. Putin won't mind. It will be an agreed-upon strategy for the world to see and mean nothing at all. It will be to make mr trump look tough. He isn't. But he really needs folks to think he is. So will end the summit. The vast space between what really transpires and what mr trump tells us is incalculable. Inquiring minds would like to know but mr trump is unconcerned with them. He prefers what he knows his base will always deliver to him. Complete acceptance to whatever he tells them. He is so looking forward to all of this. Can you blame him?