US president Joe Biden at the end of his closing press conference during the US - Russia summit in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 16, 2021. - AP
WASHINGTON (Bloomberg): President Joe Biden said he wanted to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Geneva to set some "rules of the road” in a relationship that has been eroding for years. After about three hours together, the two leaders showed how differently they interpreted that goal.
Putin got one thing he craved -- legitimacy on the international stage. Biden argued he confronted Putin over cyberattacks, Russia’s treatment of democracy activists and the need to cooperate over nuclear weapons and the Arctic.
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