Biden, Putin Paper Over Splits as Both Claim Summit Wins
- Leaders agree to dispatch ambassadors and discuss arms treaty
- Biden sets cyber red line as Putin shrugs off criticism
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President Joe Biden said he wanted to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Geneva to set some “rules of the road” in a relationship that has been eroding for years. After about three hours together, the two leaders showed how differently they interpreted that goal.
Putin got one thing he craved -- legitimacy on the international stage. Biden argued he confronted Putin over cyberattacks, Russia’s treatment of democracy activists and the need to cooperate over nuclear weapons and the Arctic.