Last week, the world’s eyes were on Vladimir Putin. As the Russian president sat down for his long-awaited meeting with Donald Trump during the G20 summit, the world held its breath. No one could look away. And nowhere was Putin’s pull better illustrated than in this viral photo of the leader, fixed with the rapt, almost adoring, gazes of Trump, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Turkey’s foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. If your average picture speaks a thousand words, this one spoke a million.
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