The writer is Fritz Stern Chair at the Brookings Institution
Would he, like President Emmanuel Macron of France, be lied to by Vladimir Putin? Would he be humiliated, like UK foreign secretary Liz Truss at the hands of her counterpart Sergei Lavrov? Worse, would the Russian president ensnare him in a bogus peacemaker role, setting him up as a 21st century Neville Chamberlain?
Many western diplomats were holding their collective breath as Olaf Scholz, Germany’s new chancellor, flew into Moscow on Tuesday for the latest last-ditch diplomatic effort to stave off war in eastern Europe.
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