President Trump will soon meet the Russian president for the first time this week on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. In normal circumstances, a “pull aside” discussion in between formal meetings at a summit wouldn’t make much news, but this meeting is anything but ordinary. Indeed, it has the potential to be the most significant dialogue that an American president has had since September 2013, when American and Iranian heads-of-state spoke directly for the first time in 38 years.

So what can we expect from the Trump-Putin mini-summit? Despite concerns among unnamed Western officials that the detail-oriented, former KGB spymaster will extract a list of concessions from the U.S, it’s unlikely that any blockbuster deals will be made. This doesn’t mean that Putin will try to charm Trump in the hope of fooling him into a false sense of complacency.