Diplomatically speaking, Biden did well. For one, he insisted on arriving second to the meeting. You see, Putin likes to keep people waiting, it is a power play for him. He made Pope Francis wait over 4 hours for him, as an example, and Angela Merkel even longer. By making Putin show up first, he took that away from him.
Same with the news conferences. Make Putin go first so you can hear what he says and then rebut it without giving Putin the same opportunity.
Or, that he wants to stir ■■■■ with the Right Wing of the US, which is par for the course. Which begs the question, are folks on the Right getting steered towards conversations by our antagonists in Russia? In order to further divide us? I mean, Putin talked about ANTIFA and BLM as well, he could have been Tucker Carlson given his hyperbole and conspiracy mongering.
i doubt putin is interested in triggering anyone on the american right. he knows what our media is like (he’s prob impressed in fact). so doubt he would think that has any effect
I disagree. And for Biden making Putin go first, Biden does not even know what planet he is on. Come on, Man.
Putin figured waiting for Biden to babble is like standing in back of a liberal ordering a lotta at Starbucks. It takes a half hour to decide, and another half hour what extra flavors one wants.
Putin is attempting to make his dictatorial actions more palatable on the world stage, and conservatives are falling for it and enabling him! Crazy!
So Putin has been arresting peaceful protesters in Russia and imprisoning them. He compares that to the mass arrests at the Capitol failing to mention they were arrested for trespassing and assault, not for their political views.
Putin also has been involved in killings of political opponents. While not admitting responsibility he still makes the comparison to Ashlii Babbitt, failing to mention she was shot while breaking into and entering a restricted area.
It kind of boggles the mind that conservatives are falling for his propaganda.
She was entering the people’s house unarmed. Should have been arrested, handcuffed and taken to jail. Where was the non lethal means? I do not condone her participating. She should have stayed home. I think with all the crazy violence we saw in other cities, and are still seeing in some, people got caught up in the condoned violence of 2020. Very few took part in the inappropriate storming of Congress in January 2021. And, by the sound of it, warning were ignored. ■■■■■ Antifa and the left are still ■■■■■■■ around in Portland.
So, detaining politically disapproved citizens in solitary confinement without trial for trespassing and minor vandalism while releasing politically approved citizens and non-citizens for more aggregious behaviors is OK for the US but not for Russia?