It was a couple of old guys talking about Ultimate Fighting, but it may have averted a crisis on two continents.

President Donald Trump met in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 27 with his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The two men, over the course of a few minutes in the Malaysian capital, made clear that months of tensions between these two political behemoths of the Americas were a thing of the past.