Posted on 06/13/2021 6:48:50 AM PDT by Eddie01
The summit between the two presidents is expected to take place in Geneva, Switzerland on 16 June, and it will be their first meeting since Joe Biden's inauguration earlier this year. Regional conflicts in Syria and Libya, global security threats, and environmental issues are expected to be on the agenda.
The recent wave of ransomware attacks across the US may also be brought up during the talks, as the American authorities repeatedly claimed that some of the hackers behind them may reside in Russia. Commenting on the issue, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that Moscow would be ready to hand over cyber criminals if Washington reciprocates.
"If we agree on the extradition of the criminals, then Russia, of course, will do it - but only if the other side (in this case, the United States) agrees to do the same and will extradite similar criminals to the Russian Federation", he stressed.
FILE PHOTO: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during their meeting in Moscow March 10, 2011.
The Russian President also stated that there is a range of global issues on which Moscow and Washington should cooperate, noting the sides need to restore direct contacts.
"Before high-level events, both sides are always trying to tone down some negative rhetoric in order to create an appropriate favorable environment for work. There is nothing special here, I would not delude myself with anything. This is a professional approach", Putin noted in an interview.
At the same time, he said that the US decision to agree on extending the New START treaty was "a professional step".
"The new administration led by President [Joe] Biden, firstly extended the New START treaty. I think this is a very important step ... On the part of President Biden, this is a demonstration of professionalism, of course", Putin stated.
Earlier this week, the White House confirmed media reports saying that Biden had decided to hold a separate press conference after the talks. Biden also expected to deliver "a strong message" to Putin, according to various reports, with Washington confirming that POTUS won't be afraid to bring up "thorny" issues between the two countries during the meeting.
Sounds like a greater deal for US.
Get rid of the entire CIA and FIB and 95% of Congress.
Don’t the Rooskies still have Snowden on hand?
Letters of Marque and Reprisal. Unless the perpetrator is a sovereign country, let the private businesses hit respond by hiring mercenaries accordingly.
I bet those Russian hackers are experiencing a whole world of unimaginable hurt for embarrassing Putin on the world stage.
They’ll all come over missing a pinky finger.
Can’t do that -— it’s Russia-Russia-Russia forever.
It cant happen. Its their milatary vs. ours. You ready to hand troops over? Right now the FBI is our biggest problem. I firmly believe they are behind the attacks on energy and food.
Interesting. I assumed the hackers were part of a private group operating out of Russia. It appears that way anyway.
You could be right.
GIVE THEM SOROS!
They’ll all come over missing a pinky finger.
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in the old days people that crossed the Party line or otherwise acted contrary were shot out of hand or, it the case I witnessed, machine gunned en mass for listening to Western music.
Some good satire/commentary on Biden and Putin meeting:
‘Can you imagine being Putin and going to sit in a room with Joe Biden while everyone is pretending that this is some kind of serious thing, and Biden just mumbling about “me and Barack, we uh, you know, we, the thing – we got it done and uh, you uh, aw jeez man, I’m sorry, it’s the uh, we gotta stop it, you know, we gotta – America’s back man! You gotta, uh, you know, we can, we can see eye to eye, but the uh… oh what’s that? Oh, I’m sorry, uh, man I just – they’re tellin’ me I gotta go.”’
Biden will stand up to Putin, just not in the same room.
Sounds like a great deal. We should give them a list of all our CIA agents involved in the election fraud of 2020.
I have heard mumblings Russia would trade Navalny for Assange.
US will never go for it.
Maybe it would be simpler if they just agreed to
swap spies every six months...
Its amazing that somehow they were abot to track down the ransome paid by the Colonial pipeline hack, but zero information on the hackers. I also find it rather curios that the things being hacked like energy and beef processing are also the same things Biden s targeting. No coincidences! This how the government seeks to destroy us and US.
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