When Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin meets Pres. Biden, experts in Moscow say for all their differences, the two leaders want something similar from their first summit: to cool things down.
– after he survived a nerve agent poisoning—and last week outlawed his movement. Most leading figures of the anti-Kremlin opposition are now under arrest or living in exile in a sign rights groups and analysts have said increasingly Putin no longer appears willing to tolerate any political opposition at all.
At the summit, that puts Biden in a complicated position: how to deliver a firm warning to Putin without antagonising him. "Biden must categorically impress upon him that this time severe consequences will follow," Khodorkovsky wrote on Twitter."Failing to do so would maintain the status quo of handshake politics, serving just to soothe Putin's ego. While this may briefly relieve tensions, in the long term it seeds further conflicts."
Doing so would likely provoke another dangerous bout of troublemaking from Russia with few gains for the U.S, Galeotti“Taking a firm line publicly can all too easily look like a challenge, a demand that Russia bend the knee,” Galeotti wrote. “Putin will not, cannot allow that to pass unchallenged. If threats are to be made, let them be out of public gaze and earshot.”
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