You know, I don't really care what the Russian media is saying about Trump and Putin. The thing that concerns me is the meeting in Helsinki that he had with no other Americans around, so he had nobody to back him up if the Russians said he agreed to something. And, those concerns were well founded, because now Russia is talking about verbal agreements made at the summit concerning military actions, and the Pentagon still has no idea what was agreed to.
As Russians describe ‘verbal agreements’ at summit, U.S. officials scramble for clarity
Two days after President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials offered a string of assertions about what the two leaders had achieved.
“Important verbal agreements” were reached at the Helsinki meeting, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, told reporters in Moscow Wednesday, including preservation of the New START and INF agreements, major bilateral arms control treaties whose futures have been in question. Antonov also said Putin had made “specific and interesting proposals to Washington” on how the two countries could cooperate on Syria.
But officials at the most senior levels across the U.S. military, scrambling since Monday to determine what Trump may have agreed to on national security issues in Helsinki, had little to no information Wednesday.