Saturday June 12th 2021
Biden a “career man”
Putin sees relations with the USA at a low point
Shortly before the meeting with Biden, Putin describes the relationship with the USA as shattered. His counterpart is a “career man” who has spent almost his entire life in politics, said the Kremlin chief. Putin, on the other hand, finds words of praise for ex-President Trump.
A few days before the summit meeting with US President Joe Biden, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin sees relations with the USA in a serious crisis. “We have a bilateral relationship that has bottomed out in recent years,” Putin said in an excerpt from an interview with NBC News released on the night after a translation by the station.
Biden is radically different from his predecessor Donald Trump, whom Putin described as an extraordinary, talented and colorful person. Biden, on the other hand, is a “career man” who has spent practically all of his adult life in politics, Putin said, according to the translation. With regard to Biden, the Kremlin chief also said there were some advantages and some disadvantages, but certainly not impulsive actions on behalf of a US president.
At the start of his first trip to Europe, Biden said on Wednesday that the US was not looking for a conflict with Russia. “We want a stable, predictable relationship.” But Biden also made it clear that the Russian government would have to reckon with consequences from the USA in the event of “harmful acts”. The White House repeatedly emphasizes that it does not want to reward Putin with the meeting and that a personal conversation is particularly important because of the differences between the countries.
On his first trip abroad as US President, Biden is currently in the UK, where he will attend the G7 summit until Sunday. On Monday he will take part in the NATO summit in Brussels, where a top meeting with EU representatives is on the program the next day. Next Wednesday, the eagerly awaited summit meeting Biden with Putin is scheduled in Geneva before the US president returns to Washington.
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