Russian president Vladimir Putin and American president Joe Biden met today. They are meeting right now, as I write this, in Geneva. In the past week, President Biden has attended the G7 Summit in Cornwall, the NATO Summit and now this added-on mini-summit thing with Putin. This is happening on “neutral territory” in Geneva for many reasons, one of them being that many European leaders are terrified of Putin’s widening influence and interference in their regional politics. During the four years of the Trump administration, America left Europe in the dust, and Trump actively marginalized America’s historic European alliances and emboldened Putin’s actions. The Biden administration is the start of a new, trickier era of Russian-American relations, but Biden is also doing this to help out Europe and NATO.
In the days before their meeting, Putin was interviewed on NBC News, where he lavished praise on Donald Trump, calling him “an extraordinary individual, talented individual… He is a colorful individual. You may like him or not. And, but he didn’t come from the U.S. establishment, he had not been part of big-time politics before, and some like it some don’t like it but that is a fact.” Putin called Joe Biden “a career man. He has spent virtually his entire adulthood in politics” and correctly assumed that with Biden, “there will not be any impulse-based movements.” Putin also correctly said that the relationship between America and Russia is at the “lowest point in recent years.” No joke. Because our current American president isn’t in Putin’s pocket.
Today, the president of Switzerland formally welcomed Putin and Biden to Geneva, “the city of peace,” and then left the men to do their coordinated handshake for the cameras. Putin turned and looked at the media scrum while Biden kept his eyes on the man he called a “killer.” Then again, Biden did smile and mouth “you wanna go inside?” Beat him up, Joe!!
Apparently they did a handshake indoors before they went out for the cameras too. Joe Biden’s not a big guy either, but look at the way he’s towering over Putin! Damn, Putin is short-ass. Anyway, it’s nice to see an American president looking and acting like he has America’s interests at heart. The last guy was Putin’s puppet and acted like a sycophantic dipsh-t whenever he got in the same room with Putin.
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