Spoiler at the Summit?

Protecting the G7 (and Ukraine) from Trump's Wrecking Ball

By tomorrow, Canada may have a new prime minister. Within a month, elections may be underway. One of our next leader’s first responsibilities will be to host the G7.

At the last summit at Kananaskis, where the G7 will meet again on June 15 to 17, the crop around the table included this guy:

I remember June 2002 very well. Ottawa had tapped me, a Canadian diplomat then stationed at our embassy in Moscow, to be Putin’s liaison officer. As things turned out, we spent improbable amounts of time together, walking and talking in the woods. Russia was still shut out of some meetings and he spurned his own people.