Hey, everybody. Welcome back to Cassius Corner.

Jan, what are we talking about today?

Today we're going to be talking about the U.S.-Russia relationship, something that, that of course has been on a lot of people's mind with

President Biden and President Putin basically meeting in Geneva and you know all sorts of interesting

issues surrounding that. But listen, before we talk about that, let's start with what, prior to this meeting,

what was the state of U.S.-Russia relations?

So if you recall, obviously, America lived through the Russia gate hoax.

That didn't help U.S.-Russia relations to begin with.

And then President Trump took a tough stance, rightly so, on Russia, and that caused diplomatic

relations to be reduced in each country.

So in America, the U.S. government closed a number of Russian facilities, their version of

State Department facilities, and likewise, in Moscow, lots of our diplomats were sent home, actually

almost all of them. So it's very difficult to engage in diplomatic relations when that is sort of

the landscape. But that's what it's been like for the last couple

of years. And I would say it's been like that because of Russian action and aggression against

the United States and not anything we've done to them. Well, so I'm remembering a state

department, I think in April, I guess statement, right, talking about, you know, identifying the solar winds

hack.

I mean, the solar was hack, I know, arguably one of the most serious hacks in U.S. history,

I would guess.

Maybe, I don't know, can you actually, can you maybe remind us of what happened and, you know?

Well, yeah.

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