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Joe Biden is slated to meet Vladimir Putin, and things are not going to go well. This is my prediction.

According to Yahoo News, President Biden agrees with Russian President Vladimir Putin on at least

one thing. Relations between their two nations are currently at a very low ebb. Now, my favorite

way that that is sort of phrased is the suggestion that they have been at high ebb in the recent past. You may have remembered that George W. Bush one said that he looked into Vladimir Putin's eyes and saw his soul and relations didn't end up being very good. And then Barack Obama was like, I think we can do business. You and me. I'll give you some flexibility. And then things didn't end up going very well. And then Donald Trump took a harsher position with the Russians, but was currently it was simultaneously being accused of being a sort of Russian stooge. And it turns out relations weren't that great. It turns out it's very difficult to have excellent relations with a dictatorial murderer like Vladimir Putin. I mean, just

baseline, very rough, rough stuff, right? But apparently Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin agree on

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