Putin and Biden Meet in Geneva
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
President Biden met with President Putin in Geneva on Wednesday. There was a lot of press and dueling press conferences, with both presidents having testy moments with them, and the whole thing was pretty different from the last time Putin met with a U.S. president.
To talk through the Putin-Biden summit, Benjamin Wittes sat down on Lawfare Live with Fiona Hill and Alex Vindman, both formerly of the National Security Council, Alina Polyakova of the Center for European Policy Analysis, and former Estonian President Toomas Ilves. They discussed whether this was a win for Putin, a win for Biden, an overblown icebreaker or something else, and what it all says about where U.S.-Russia relations are headed.
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| 0:27.2 | and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.8 | He's kind of praising Biden as a way of sort of praising himself because if he talks it |
| 0:38.0 | down too much then why did he bother showing up, right? |
| 0:41.4 | You know, kind of it has to be for both domestic audiences to show he Putin's all got it |
| 0:46.0 | and this was a worthy meeting for him and also internationally because like the United |
| 0:52.0 | States, Putin's also looking over his shoulder, China. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast June 18th, 2021. |
| 1:04.6 | President Biden met with President Putin in Geneva on Wednesday. |
| 1:09.2 | There was a lot of press. |
| 1:11.5 | Some people are even calling it a media circus. |
| 1:14.3 | There were dueling press conferences. |
| 1:17.2 | Both presidents got a little grouchy. |
| 1:20.0 | Both presidents had testing moments with the press and the whole thing was pretty different |
| 1:25.8 | from the last time Putin met with a US president which was in Helsinki with Donald Trump. |
| 1:33.1 | We got together the ideal panel to talk through the Putin Biden summit before a LawFair |
| 1:40.6 | live audience Fiona Hill and Alex Vindman, both formerly of the National Security Council, |
| 1:49.0 | Lena Poliakova of the Center for European Policy Analysis and former Estonian president |
| 1:56.0 | Tomas Ilvis took live audience questions and questions from me and chewed over whether |
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