Trump ridiculed the current US president for “pathetic surrender”
On Tuesday evening, the presidents of Russia and the United States held talks via video link. The conversation between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, which lasted more than two hours, took place against the background of the aggravation of relations between the West and Moscow due to the events around Ukraine. The world media are trying to analyze the results of the conversation between the leaders of the two powers.
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CNN: “The White House says that President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that the United States is ready to take decisive economic measures in the event of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, indicating that these new measures will deal a bigger blow than the sanctions imposed in 2014.
“I’ll look you in the eye and tell you how President Biden looked Putin in the eye and told him today that what we didn’t do in 2014, we are ready to do now,” National Security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters after Biden’s conversation with Putin… Sullivan did not go into details, but added that the US is coordinatingtheir actions with European allies “at a deep level of specifics”. He said Biden “was straightforward and frank with President Putin, as always,” later adding that “there were a lot of mutual concessions. There were no harsh gestures, but the President clearly outlined the position of the United States on all these issues.