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CNN: "Putin got exactly what he wanted from Biden in Geneva"


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2021 Jun 17, 10:23am   425 views  7 comments

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What Putin walked away with
The optics of the summit were almost tailored to suit Putin's domestic needs. The meetings were requested by the US, which as far as the Kremlin is concerned, confirms that Putin is a leader of similar stature to the US President.
"This is exactly what the Kremlin wants. To talk to the US as equals and in such a way that the other side does not demand a change of position as a condition of dialogue," says Oleg Ignatov, Crisis Group's senior Russia analyst based in Moscow.
"There is no doubt that Putin will continue to test Biden if the dialogue deadlocks or develops in a direction that is disadvantageous to Moscow. This is not yet the beginning of the normalization of relations. It is a pause in their further deterioration," he adds.
However counterintuitive it might be for Putin to poke the US President in the eye later down the line, the Russian president's every action is done with a view to how it will play for him domestically.
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The summit has also given Putin an opportunity to pause the fallout from deteriorating relations between Moscow and DC, as the US might now be reluctant to place additional economic sanctions on Russia or reprimand Putin for arresting dissenters at home. All of which could be useful when Russia holds parliamentary elections later this year.
In short, Putin went to Geneva and got exactly what he wanted. And he left Switzerland with a huge diplomatic victory, simply by turning up.


https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/europe/vladimir-putin-met-joe-biden-and-got-what-he-wanted-intl-cmd/index.html

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1   Eric Holder   2021 Jun 17, 10:24am  

But it's Trump who's a Putin's agent, make no mistake!
2   Eric Holder   2021 Jun 17, 10:25am  

The question is: what kind of "kompromat" does Putin have on our dear leader. Some grainy B&W tapes with members of Young Pioneer League from his 1979 visit?
3   Onvacation   2021 Jun 17, 11:40am  

Eric Holder says
Some grainy B&W tapes with members of Young Pioneer League from his 1979 visit?

Technicolor!
4   Ceffer   2021 Jun 17, 11:43am  

If it was destructive of USA, it flew.

Listening to Biden's senile rants was just popcorn entertainment.
5   RWSGFY   2021 Jun 17, 11:47am  

Onvacation says
Eric Holder says
Some grainy B&W tapes with members of Young Pioneer League from his 1979 visit?

Technicolor!


I believe the Soviet brand of film was called something like Svema or Lomo.

UPD. It's Svema:

"Svema" used to be the major photographic film manufacturer in the USSR, but their film lost market share in former Soviet countries to imported products during the late 1990s. They made black-and-white photographic film, photographic paper, B&W/colour cine film and magnetic tapes until 2000. Colour film was made with equipment dismantled from the Agfa-Wolfen Factory after World War II.
6   HeadSet   2021 Jun 17, 1:26pm  

Putin also got Nordstream 2 sanctions lifted in advance.
7   AmericanKulak   2021 Jun 17, 1:37pm  

BoJo was talking about building back better in a gender-neutral way. That's actually the G7, but same trip I guess.

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