The Significance of the Trump-Putin Talks (opens in new tab)

Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a 90-minute telephone conversation on April 29 – notably, at Putin’s behest. Past conversations of this kind tended to be initiated by Trump, who was more eager to speak to Putin than Putin was to speak to him. That doesn’t mean he didn’t want to talk to Trump; it just means he likely didn’t want to come off as enthusiastic. Many news agencies have since reported that the presidents discussed the situation in Iran and a resolution to the war in ...