February 21, 2022

"President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed 'in principle' to meet, U.S. and French officials said..."

"... even as troops continue to gather near the Ukraine border, suggesting the window for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis is closing. While Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday there are not yet 'concrete plans' for a Russia-U.S. summit, he added that dialogue among ministers would continue and 'it is possible if the heads of states consider it expedient. A decision can be made at any moment.' The summit was proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron during separate calls with Biden and Putin on Sunday. Officials in Paris and Washington said the talks would go ahead only if Moscow doesn’t attack...."

The Washington Post reports.

44 comments:

David Begley said...

Putin just wants to look into Biden’s eyes and see how blank and senile he really is.

In basketball terms, Putin wants to dunk on Biden’s head.

This isn’t hard to figure out.

What's emanating from your penumbra said...

We're saved?

Kevin said...

Putin doesn’t want to attack. He wants clear guarantees Ukraine can’t join NATO.

If he can’t get them, he can blame the war on Biden. Germany and France are ready to fold, after all.

Howard said...

He should send in Kamala Harris to give Vlad a Wet Willy.

gadfly said...

You know, the more time goes by, the more I wonder what exactly was said between Trump and Putin at Helsinki, because the physical attitude of Trump and Putin couldn't have looked more like a smiling owner and a chastised pup.

tim in vermont said...

If there is no war, it will only because of the masterful diplomatic skills of Joseph Robinette Biden and we should all immediately change our answers to pollsters or be labelled traitors. (Kind of hard to make it clear this is sarcasm.)

Christopher B said...

What Kevin said, mostly.

There appears to be no good way for Russia to digest the entire Ukraine which points to Russia not wanting to invade at all. I'm pretty sure Putin would quite happily settle for a rump Ukraine that acts like Finland post WWII with at least semi-official Ukrainian acceptance that Russia incorporates the Donbass and Crimea, and maybe more.

Biden wants the optics of 'deterring a Russian invasion of Ukraine' which means he's gonna knife Zelensky in the back to get him to agree to Putin's conditions for not invading. Veep Throat signaled that in Munich. We're sure there's gonna be an invasion, any day now, but we aren't gonna send you any weapons to defend yourself.

No wonder Zelensky is pissed, and don't forget that Biden has made this kind of move before ("I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money, Well, son of a b***h. (Laughter.) He got fired.”)

Jersey Fled said...

They wouldn't be meeting unless they already have a deal. God help us.

wendybar said...

Wasn't it cute in the picture of Biden with his National Security Council, how they all had their name plates on the table and they turned them to face the camera??? Why did they bring their name plates?? Don't they KNOW each other?? WHY did they turn them towards the camera?? Why is everything so weird with this WH?? https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1495547465495461889?

Money Manger said...

“actually, we’re engaged to be engaged”—Eric “Otter” Stratton.

tim in vermont said...

Gadfly heads up the keyboard warrior brigade here, the chickenhawk fighting for Hunter Biden's rights to the graft of Ukraine.

Dave Begley said...

Vlad's speech.

"I met with the American President, Joe Biden. I want to report to the American people and the world what I learned.

I looked into his eyes and saw his soul. What I saw was a corrupt, stupid, senile and weak man. I saw a man who graduated at the bottom of his class at a third-tier law school. A man who cheated in law school and, if he would have been in a Soviet law school, he would have been expelled.

I saw a man who constantly lies about little things that are easily proven false but the corrupt American press doesn't call him out. Biden is a man who steals the words of others because he is so weak-minded.

I saw a man who has organized a crime family that - according to our intelligence sources - has amassed $150 million.

So, you may ask, who did such a person become President of the United States? Russia, China and the Democrat party conspired to rig and steal the 2020 election. Molly Ball wrote about it in Time magazine and Mollie Hemingway's book "Rigged" is very accurate. Barack Obama knows how this was all done as he was the architect. Val Jarett and Susan Rice were our contacts.

Russia and China funded BLM and the 2020 riots. And, BTW, we regularly pay NYT and WaPo employees for favorable stories. We also have funded the so-called Green movement and the anti-pipeline people. Check their bitcoin accounts.

Myself and President Xi were very keen to get rid of Donald Trump as your leader. Trump was very effective. Xi, however, went overboard and intentionally released covid-19 on the world. From our intelligence intercepts, the Chinese constantly laugh about how your Dr. Fauci paid for the research that has killed so many Americans.

I did promise President Biden that we would not invade Ukraine. But he fucked up and trusted me. I lied. One hour ago, I ordered Russian troops to invade.

Russia and China will be the leaders of the new world order. America's greed, weakness, stupidity and corruption has finally caught up with itself with the installation of the Joe Biden as leader."

tim in vermont said...

"Germany and France are ready to fold"

You mean abandon the expansionist aims of the United States, which has cooked up this whole crisis to set up Urkiane as another Perkins-Coie satrapy.

Temujin said...

Please make it stop. Not the Russia/Ukraine thing. I mean the press coverage of it.

Just stop the nonsense. No one cares to see Biden attend any summit. It's a disaster waiting to happen. Didn't they just send Kamala over there to summit things around herself? Wha-happened with that?

By the way, in 12-18 months, when Zelensky is found to have drank a glass of vodka laced with plutonium, don't be surprised. He's already toast. It's just a matter of when and how. Certainly not who.

iowan2 said...

ChucK Todd asked Blinken Sunday, why Putin didn't invade during President Trump. Since he owned President Trump and all that.

Biff said...

Gotta get JB a Nobel Peace Prize, by hook or by crook.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

After 4 years of "Trump and Putin are in bed" - suddenly the collective left find that Putin and his war machine are all fine and dandy.

Jefferson's Revenge said...

Are there any White House or State Department mid-level functionaries who are embarrassed by the concept of Biden sitting down with any foreign leader? Biden's lack of mental alertness is obvious to us plebs, even sanitized and hidden through the media and manipulated public events. The idea of Joe sitting across the table from Putin is not reassuring.It is frightening. When will someone within the administration turn patriot and quit and say what we all know? I suspect that after the election and the R's have both Houses of Congress, it will be easier for a truly concerned whistleblower to do the right thing and testify about the two elephants in the room, Biden's mental condition and his family's corruption. Both are in full view and both have been invisible in mainstream dialog.

Maynard said...

What nobody seems to get is that the Russian army is serving as a holding force while Russian separatists carve out Eastern Ukraine to serve as a buffer for Mother Russia.

Putin is getting exactly what he wants at a minimal price. He is getting away with it because of Trump? Only gadfly would believe that insanity.

Achilles said...

This is all garbage.

Biden wants us looking at Ukraine and not Canada.

The Canadian Government has gone full National Socialist. I want to see the communications between the Biden and Trudeau Regimes.

narciso said...

https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/kamala-harris-claims-sanctions-would-deter-putin-despite-saying-he-has-made

mikee said...

Quick question: what would make Putin pull his troops back to barracks away from Ukraine? If the actions don't involve actual kaboom/deaths/propertydestruction, why not do those things now? My guess is because we have a senile corrupt old man for a president.

William said...

I know almost nothing of Russian/Ukrainian relations and history. I bet it's really complicated. I have the sense that this is not the kind of issue that's in Joe Biden's wheelhouse.

Howard said...

Blogger Achilles said...

This is all garbage.

Biden wants us looking at Ukraine and not Canada.

The Canadian Government has gone full National Socialist. I want to see the communications between the Biden and Trudeau Regimes.


Yes, yes. It's just a big dodge. Biden convinced Putin to mobilize a hundred thousand troops and shell Ukraine just to grab our attention from the trucker freedom fighters. They even got to that crack Fox reporter and forced her to recant the RCMP trampling death story. I heard they had to murder the entire hospital ER shift to cover it up.

Critter said...

The only thing missing from this national debasement is for Putin to guarantee he won’t invade Ukraine if Biden crawl across the room and kiss his boots. You know, I’m not sure Biden would refuse.

Michael K said...

Once Putin has what he wants, he will back off and Brandon will claim a diplomatic success. This will then become a Democrat issue for the midterms. "He kept us out of war !" It worked once, or twice. Why not again?

rcocean said...

So, we'll have a fake summit to solve a fake crisis. How fitting for our fake POTUS. One good thing about not watching TV news is you miss all the hysteria. I feel sad for anyone watching this crap, and getting upset that WW III is going to break out.

rcocean said...

All the foreign policy tough guys and risk players will out in force. Get ready to play "Munich/Chamberlin bingo" with the usual jabber about how "The USA can't back down" or "THis will play into Putin's hands" or "We can't trust Putin, look out" etc.

Yawn.

What's emanating from your penumbra said...

I have the sense that this is not the kind of issue that's in Joe Biden's wheelhouse.

Goes without saying.

Mark said...

Biden Administration acts as if Putin wants the "prestige" of a meeting with Biden as an incentive not to attack. In a line with their threatening the Taliban with a loss of international participation if they did what Taliban do.

Bob Boyd said...

I have the sense that this is not the kind of issue that's in Joe Biden's wheelhouse.


Is there even a wheel in Biden's wheelhouse anymore?

Joe Smith said...

This is all just a setup to proclaim Biden a hero for the ages when Putin doesn't invade.

There is no upside for a Russian invasion.

It's just a scam to get drooling Joe a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

Pathetic and transparent.

Joe Smith said...

'You know, the more time goes by, the more I wonder what exactly was said between Trump and Putin at Helsinki, because the physical attitude of Trump and Putin couldn't have looked more like a smiling owner and a chastised pup.'

You are dumber than dirt.

The policies of Biden have put hundreds of billions of dollars in Putins pocket.

Just fucking go away unless you can make some semblance of a rational argument for your constant, inane drivel.

Michael K said...

They even got to that crack Fox reporter and forced her to recant the RCMP trampling death story. I heard they had to murder the entire hospital ER shift to cover it up.

Actually Howard, there are photos of the old woman in the hospital looking pretty beaten up. You should try reading something other than Der Sturmer.

Mikey NTH said...

"If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna." Putin does not strike me as a ditherer, he is very decisive. That this is going on for over three weeks gives me the thought that he does not want to invade. Rather he wants to see what concessions threats and negotiations will get him.

Of course, other actors may use this distraction to get their own little concessions from this administration. It isn't the A-team that Biden has assembled.

(I think Blogger ate my previous comment.)

Rabel said...

Wendybar, the name plates have names on both sides. Briefing materials are laid out by aides for each attendee specific to their office and the name plates are placed there so they will know where to sit. You can see that in dozens of photos from previous administrations.

- They are turned sideways in this instance so that our President can see them as an allowance for his weakened mental state. -

I can find no photo of sideways turned plates used in any other administration.

Mark said...

So Hapless Feckless Biden Administration offers to Putin: We'll let you have a meeting with Joe Biden if you are nice.

Putin has responded with: first capitulate to my demands before the meeting if you want one.

Bob Boyd said...

I predict Biden will pull his missiles out of Cuba.

Chris Lopes said...

"You know, the more time goes by, the more I wonder what exactly was said between Trump and Putin at Helsinki, because the physical attitude of Trump and Putin couldn't have looked more like a smiling owner and a chastised pup."

While Orange the Clown has many faults, being owned by Putin isn't one of them. When he left office, the price of oil was 53 dollars a barrel, it's now at about 90 dollars a barrel. Guess who benefits from high energy prices, and you will know which administration is owned by Putin.

Xmas said...

Putin has come out a little while ago and declared that Russia is supporting the independence claims of Donetsk and Lugansk, and is asking the Ukrainian military to withdraw from these breakaway regions.

So, the pretense is set. Now Ukraine has to trip the trap.



Bender said...

Kremlin announcing that Putin has ordered troops into eastern Ukraine.

Bender said...

MS-NBC is questioning whether Putin sending in "peacekeepers" into a foreign nation is an "invasion"?

While CNN reporting that the areas that Putin has now INVADED are really two republics that were part of the Soviet Union.

n.n said...

So, the people of Eastern Ukraine have decided the government following the Western-backed violent coup in Kiev is illegitimate, and Russians have agreed to defend their choice and lives in the wake of Biden, Trudeau et al promises of a progressive climate change.

Bunkypotatohead said...

Biden's gonna claim peace for our time.