Posted on 08/06/2021 11:46:31 AM PDT by elpadre
At their June 16, 2021, summit in Geneva, Presidents Joseph Biden and Vladimir Putin agreed to return their previously recalled ambassadors: Anatoly Antonov to Washington and John Sullivan to Moscow. Antonov stayed in Moscow for over three months in an unprecedented demonstration of anger. Sullivan was pressed by the Russian authorities to leave. In addition, both presidents agreed to form multiple joint working groups to deescalate tensions and solve outstanding problems in arms control, the manning of respective diplomatic missions, cyber security and exchange of prisoners (see EDM, June 17).
The working groups have met while diplomats discuss ways to scale back tit-for-tat expulsions. The exchange of prisoners has apparently been discussed, but none have yet been released. All other working group discussions seem equally deadlocked. The diplomatic crisis between Russia and the United States has actually worsened since the Geneva summit. Last April, Putin signed an ukaz (decree) designating the US an “unfriendly nation,” and its embassy in Moscow was denied the right to hire local staff. By August 1, the US embassy was forced to fire all its remaining locally employed staff, with the exception of security guards. The US had traditionally employed relatively large numbers of locals in Moscow to perform different technical jobs, since they cost much less than Americans. But now, Ambassador Sullivan complains he has had to fire his secretary, and the US embassy is largely dysfunctional: Its staff, which in 2016 had some 1,200 employees (mostly locals), is now ten times smaller—120—with only US citizens left (Kommersant, August 4). (continues at link)
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Putin got all he wanted and more.
“...and the US embassy is largely dysfunctional...”
that pretty well describes the entire Biden administration!!!!
Biden was,is and always will be a mistake of gargantuan proportions.
He's right about that.
The dems need to have a foreign enemy, that is not their employer (china). To go with their domestic enemy, which are us deplorables.
China’s beginning to flex their muscles and showing their goals of world-wide dominance.
I could foresee down the road, maybe in a generation, Russia and the US becoming allies in a common fight against China.
Although he's billed in the West as a "defense analyst", Pavel only has a degree in Biology.
He once famously predicted that Russia would get bogged down in a 'long war' against Georgia over South Ossetia.
Considering his dismal track record, Pavel fits right in with the other neo-liberal dopes at JTF.
“Biden-Putin Summit Failed to Reverse Downturn in Bilateral Relations”
Considering that Biden is still looking at maps to figure out what planet he’s on, why should anyone have expected differently?
Does Putin have a daughter he needs to hide from Chomo Joe?
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