On June 16, 2021, the US President Joe Biden met with the Russian President Vladimir Putin in Villa la Grange located in Geneva, Switzerland. Contrary to the past events, President Putin arrived at the Villa la Grange for the summit 15 minutes earlier than the agreed upon time. During the interlude, President Biden and President Putin sat across one another without having any conversations between them, causing many news outlets to conclude the silence as a tactic employed to send a message by both parties. During their summit, arms controls and cyber securities were the main topics of discussions, with the topics on the imprisonment of the Russian opposition Alexei Navalny, American prisoner in the hands of the Russian authority and Russian prisoners in the hands of the American authority, election meddling, Ukraine and its territories, and conflict in Syria potentially being considered. President Biden after the in-person meeting held a press briefing with the media, where he had a go at it against CNN chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins when she asked why Biden was confident President Putin would change his behavior, “What the hell? … When did I say I was confident? What I said was—let’s get it straight—I said what will change their behavior is if the rest of the world reacts to them and it diminishes their standing in the world. I’m not confident of anything, I’m just stating the facts.” Right before President Biden boarded the Air Force One to head back home, he apologized to the media, “I owe my last questioner an apology, I shouldn’t have been such a wise guy with the last answer I gave.” While the United States and Russia are in a strenuous situation, President Biden commented the meeting as “positive,” with President Putin commented the meeting as “constructive.”
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