The more that President Trump does his trademark freewheeling in the run-up to his summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday, the more it becomes apparent that this is an illegitimate process. Trump's America has no valid cause to be inserting itself into a conflict from which it is walking away, and on behalf of a side that has not granted it power to represent it at the negotiating table. The trouble is - nobody is prepared to cross Trump by telling him such a thing, and so the slow-motion car crash continues to its inevitable conclusion. Let's discuss.