Here’s what Biden needs to know about the famously unpredictable Russian president — and Washington’s best next moves
The Russians don’t think they’re the bad guys. They think they are doing everything they do to protect and advance their own interests and security, and that this is what everyone does, and indeed how foreign policy works.over the last 15 years would prefer to see normal relations with Ukraine and only 20 percent prefer unification. Public opinion also suggests that Russians are rather sensitive to casualties.
Putin, flanked by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and then-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, attends Russian Navy Day and Ukrainian Fleet Day celebrations in Crimea, July 28, 2013. | Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA-Novosti via APThe Kremlin is responsible for the current crisis. They have sought to frame this as a NATO-Russia crisis brought about by NATO enlargement. But the last country that bordered Russian territory to join the Alliance did so in 2004.
President Joe Biden and Russia's President Vladimir Putin meet at the start of the U.S.-Russia summit on June 16, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland. | Denis Balibouse/Pool via Getty ImagesBiden doesn’t have good options. Combining containment with attempts to talk business , with a firm determination not to talk with Putin on his terms about the spheres of influence is all he can do.
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