Subject: Re: Let’s See If This Pans Out for Putin
But....we don't care if he shows up, if he's not actually there to bargain.

No, you have to at least make the attempt. That was the point.

It's a reminder to his people - and more importantly his bankers and his property owners and lenders and business folks - that there's a diplomatic cost to what he's doing.


lol. Those people care more about the *economic* cost to what he’s doing. Whether or not Putin was served poached Halibut or foie gras in Alaska is irrelevant.