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Trump and Putin: a strained relationship

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for a meeting in Helsinki on July 16, 2018.  [AFP]

Donald Trump styles himself as a strongman. And that's exactly what he sees in Vladimir Putin.

Their complicated relationship will be put to the test at a summit in Alaska on Friday, where the two leaders who claim to admire each other will seek to outmaneuver one another over how to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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