Putin failed to achieve his main goal at the G20 summit

Thomson Reuters One of the most significant things about the G20 summit was something that didn't happen. Hangzhou didn't become Yalta. China didn't become Munich. But Vladimir Putin sure wanted it to. In fact, Russia's actions in and around Ukraine over the past month appear to have been, at least in part, a big psy-op in the run-up to the summit. Moscow ginned up a fake crisis in Crimea in August, accusing Ukraine of sending a team of agent saboteurs to the annexed peninsula to carry out terro...