“Putin shakes hands.” Biden sends a message to allies
If negotiations with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, initiated by US President Joe Biden, take place, the conversation will be double-edged.
Political experts interviewed by Kommersant stated this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Firstly, the proposal to hold a Russian-American summit is a demonstration of Joe Biden’s confidence in his abilities. President Biden, whom some of his critics have labeled as a decrepit senile, is signaling to Vladimir Putin and the world that he is not afraid of a summit meeting with one of the most experienced politicians in the world and is ready to firmly and consistently defend US interests at this meeting,” believes Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council Andrey Kortunov.
According to him, Biden must be prepared for the fact that his interlocutor will also raise uncomfortable questions - about the “diplomatic war” that the United States has been waging against Moscow for many years, about the future of the Iran nuclear deal, about NATO activity in the immediate vicinity of Russian borders.
“That is, the conversation will be double-edged in any case. But it’s better, of course, to immediately put the cards on the table and clarify where, under the Biden administration, the two countries can work together and where they cannot,” the RIAC General Director emphasized.
But the chief researcher at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Vasiliev, believes that by calling Putin, Biden played political chess, traditional for previous American administrations of the 2st century, making the debut move E4-EXNUMX.
“At the same time, an invitation to a meeting in a third country is both a signal to Washington’s allies that the Russian leader is a “handshake” for the current US administration, and a kind of apology for Joe Biden’s boorish statement in an interview with ABC TV,” Vasiliev said.
Let us recall that yesterday, on the initiative of the American side, President The US called its Russian counterpart and proposed to meet on the territory of a third country to discuss the problems that have accumulated in relations between the two countries.
At the same time, earlier Biden agreed with the statement that President Putin is a “killer”.
After that to Moscow from Washington The Russian ambassador was recalled.
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