When the meeting with Putin ran 2 hours longer than scheduled, it was a win for Putin. Trump should have had a brief, stern agenda and talking points, but H.R. McMaster (who was inexplicably excluded from the meeting) said that Trump had no agenda; he was going to ad lib. Putin desperately wants Russia to be a major player, something that our European allies oppose until Russian behavior aligns with standards of international relations. Trump, by allowing the meeting to run so far overtime while he granted only cursory meetings to other governments, made an amateur's mistake by signaling that the U.S. regards Russia as the most important country in the G20. You only have to look at the picture of their meeting that was widely published by the Russian media — Trump reaching out to Putin as if he is begging while Putin looks scornfully at Trump and waits for the Russian photographers to get the shot. Putin won the symbolic battle before the first words were spoken.