MANY GRIEVANCES, SOME AGREEMENT: In the end, the planned four-to-five-hour summit between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in a lakeside mansion in Geneva concluded after two 90-minute sessions, when, after a Festivus-like airing of grievances, the two leaders ran out of things to say.

“It was, kind of, after two hours there, we looked at each other like, ‘OK. What next?’” said Biden as his post-summit wrap-up. Still, he declared the tete-a-tete a success. “I did what I came to do.”