In a move that tests the boundaries between engagement and complicity, the Trump administration has invited Vladimir Putin to attend the G-20 summit this December in Miami — a gesture that places dialogue at the center of American foreign policy even as the war in Ukraine threatens to enter a more destructive phase. The invitation arrives at a moment when much of the Western world has chosen isolation as its instrument of pressure, making Washington's outstretched hand both a diplomatic gamble and a statement of intent. History has long debated whether tyrants are better contained through excl