Trump let Putin off the hook at the G20 summit – but does it matter?

Donald Trump held all the cards going into his first meeting with Vladimir Putin in Hamburg.Russia has been caught red-handed trying to derail the American presidential elections, its economy has been hobbled by western sanctions for its misdeeds on the world stage – redrawing Ukraine’s borders, shooting down a civilian airliner – and by falling oil prices.Putin was the pariah at the party.