https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/6\/16\/22537128\/biden-putin-summit-press-conference-cyber-nuclear<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“If one phrase defines President Joe Biden\u2019s approach to negotiating, it\u2019s \u201call politics is personal.\u201d When he uses that line, he aims to convey a rock-ribbed belief that finding what the other person can and can\u2019t accept \u2014 be it a member of Congress from the other party or a foreign leader \u2014 will eventually lead to better relations and even mutually agreeable deals.<\/p>\n
During a Wednesday press conference following his Geneva summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Biden showed once more that he puts a lot of faith in that approach. \u201cAll foreign policy is the logical extension of personal relationships,\u201d Biden said. \u201cIt\u2019s the way human nature functions.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not Biden saying all it takes to improve US-Russia relations is to have a one-on-one chat with Putin, although they did have a roughly 90-minute discussion. It meant, as he went on to explain, that because of that discussion, both men are now clear on what red lines not to cross as they seek to cooperate on arms control, cybersecurity, and more.<\/p>\n
That outcome, in Biden\u2019s mind, was worth the trip.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I\u2019m saying is I think there\u2019s a genuine prospect to significantly improve relations between our two countries without us giving up a single, solitary thing based on principle and our values,\u201d he told reporters. \u201cThis is not just about self-interest. It\u2019s about mutual self-interest.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the clearest distillation yet of how Biden thinks about foreign policy and diplomacy. Sure, there are constraints on what can be achieved, but the only way to make progress is to hear the other person out and find areas of common ground.”<\/p>\n
…<\/p>\n
“Knowing the long odds, even Biden acknowledged his bet might not pay off. \u201cLet\u2019s see what happens,\u201d he said at his press conference. \u201cI\u2019m not confident [Putin] will change his behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n
Analysts share that skeptical view, saying that reiterating America\u2019s stances won\u2019t have much of an effect on Putin. \u201cWe can deliver a message, as other presidents have, but from the Russian perspective, they\u2019ve heard this before,\u201d said Alina Polyakova, president and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, DC.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[390,272,355,314,780,316,315,619],"class_list":["post-5423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-diplomacy","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-joe-biden","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5424,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5423\/revisions\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}