The US continues to downplay expectations for the upcoming summit between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin that is scheduled for June 16th in Geneva.
The meeting comes as US-Russia relations are at their lowest point since the Cold War. Despite the dangerous path the two largest nuclear powers are on, the Biden administration doesn’t seem interested in any diplomatic breakthroughs.
“We’re not expecting to have a huge outcome from this,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said of the summit in an interview with ABC. Psaki made it clear that Biden will take a confrontational approach to the meeting. “He’s going to be straightforward, he’s going to be candid, he’s not going to hold back,” she said.
President Biden also made his hostile approach known in comments on Wednesday from the UK. “I’m heading to the G-7, then to the NATO ministerial, and then to meet with Mr. Putin to let him know what I want him to know,” he said.
Earlier this year, Biden agreed that he believed Putin was a “killer” who has “no soul.” Besides the rhetoric, the Biden administration has slapped sanctions on Russia, supported Ukraine during a tense stand-off over Crimea and Donbas, and has sent warships into the Black Sea.
One area Biden has said he could work with Russia on is nuclear arms control. But besides agreeing to extend New START, the Biden administration hasn’t taken any steps to foster new treaties. Last month, the US told Russia it would not rejoin Open Skies after Moscow’s attempts to salvage the mutual surveillance treaty that the Trump administration withdrew from in 2020.
Psaki made it clear that Biden will take a confrontational approach to the meeting. “He’s going to be straightforward, he’s going to be candid, he’s not going to hold back,” she said.
Except during nap time or at a diaper change.
Putin should never agree to any nuclear arms control.
There is only one party in America, the War Party.
Biden is attempting to convince democrats that he is sane because he is willing to talk with the barbarian enemy one last time before he reluctantly awards war contracts to struggling and needy US corporations. Good daddy uncle Joe wants peace and his democratic subjects need to see him struggling mightily for peace.
Biden has never held back in his love of military adventurism, being a John McCainiac from the other side of the aisle.
LOL. Pres. Putin is a leader, the hologram Biden is hardly even a human being.
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Off topic here. Lackluster US oil production.
The Biden administration and the Pentagon likely have nefarious intent. Any number of countries must be targeted for regime change to secure America’s near-term future.
Are they advocating for the nationalization of oil sales in the USA? They certainly seem to be, with bombast as badly written as this:
“There is NOBODY in America anymore in charge of our nations hydrocarbon future.”
Who should be “in charge?” Isn’t this just the free market in action?
How do you nationalize if the Keystone Pipeline and ANWR have been shutdown by Biden’s executive decree?
That leaves the limited offshore drilling and the rapidly- depleting, low EROI shale production for US-centric crude oil production.
It appears we’ll heavily rely on Canadian tar sands, Mexico, and Middle East imports.
Mexico is undergoing rapid oil reserves depletion.
Welcome to the new world order.