A possible three-power summit with Ukraine shut out captures a theme readers everywhere recognise: great powers deciding a smaller nation's fate without it. It offers a sharp satirical angle, with the summit officially about nuclear arms while Ukraine's future is quietly on the table, and it translates into a single image with no words needed. The humanitarian stories are vital but lend themselves less to a clear, universal metaphor that also carries this much geopolitical weight.

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