I've been thinking a lot about that ball in recent weeks. What was it about? Hearing Putin congratulate Biden, I ask myself, the ball was nothing after all? We read too much into it? Putin regards Trump no differently to Biden or any other person who might assume the Presidency?
And yet it seemed a loaded moment as though they both knew the symbolism from preplanned SCIFF talks (legal ones within the rights of a President to have)
The ball had meaning and hopefully still does.