yidnar
Diamond Member
Many on the left are criticizing Trump for meeting with Putin on US territory to talk about negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine .. We all know Biden never met with Putin to have talks about ending the war even though Biden and Putin spoke several times before Russia invaded Ukraine .. shouldn't Biden have at least sat down with Putin after the Russian invasion and talked about what it would take to cease hostilities ?
- Before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Biden and Putin had spoken several times. This included a face-to-face meeting in Geneva in June 2021 and phone calls in December 2021 and February 2022.
- High-level contacts between the two leaders reportedly stopped after the 2022 invasion.
- In February 2024, the Biden administration dismissed a call by Putin for negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. The administration stated that "Russians need to take the serious offer that we put forward on the table, or make a serious counter-offer to negotiate, but in good faith".