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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Sam Kiley

A Trump-Putin summit will be as useful to Ukraine and democracy as Agent Orange is for gardening

A long-overdue summit between the presidents of the United States and the Russian Federation to discuss peace in Ukraine, where nuclear war has been threatened, must be seen as a historic moment for optimism.

Except that from London to Langley, Berlin, Canberra and Tokyo, intelligence chiefs will be on tenterhooks wondering whether this is another occasion resembling the meeting between an agent and his handler.

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