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So? Putin has enormous leverage because Russia is a critical swing player in the China vs America cold war, and right now they're leaning heavily towards China. That's why Trump has been trying so hard to get a face-to-face meeting; it's not like anyone actually cares about some eastern European backwater called "Ukraine", it's just a roadblock towards a potential rapprochement. In this context it doesn't matter that the US has a more powerful arsenal than Russia. If there's anything Trump needs to demonstrate to Putin, it's that US >>> China, and to achieve that he needs to put on a more impressive display than China will when Putin visits Beijing for the military parade on September 3