It’s been two weeks since Donald Trump welcomed Vladimir Putin into the United States on a red carpet laid out for him by uniformed American troops on their hands and knees. Trump had gone into the August 15 summit in Anchorage wanting a ceasefire, or at least some progress toward halting a war he’d boasted he could end in 24 hours. But he walked out without any real results. Indeed, the two deliverables his administration announced—“Article 5–like protections” for Ukraine, and a trilateral meeting between Trump, Putin, and Zelensky—fell apart within days, shot down by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. So what did the Anchorage summit accomplish?