According to the American president, it lies in the fact that the Russian economy is limited by nuclear weapons and oil and Putin is “in a really difficult position” because of this
The Russian economy relies only on oil and nuclear weapons, this creates certain difficulties for the country’s leadership, US President Joe Biden said.
“I met with Putin, who has a real problem-he has an economy with nuclear weapons and oil wells and nothing else, nothing. She is the eighth largest in the world & mdash; he knows that he is in a really difficult situation, and this, in my opinion, makes him even more dangerous,— Biden explained. An excerpt from his speech was published by CBS News.
The president’s comments were made during his address to the US intelligence community. Biden also stressed that American intelligence is better than Russian. “He [Putin] knows that you are better than his team, and this worries him very much,” the head of state added.
The first meeting between Putin and Biden as US president was held in Geneva on July 16, it lasted about four hours. After the talks, the presidents made statements. Putin announced an agreement to return the ambassadors of Russia and the United States to Washington and Moscow. He also stressed that there are a lot of “blockages” in the relations between the two countries, but the parties are determined to find solutions.
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Commenting on Biden’s positive answer to the question of an American journalist about whether he considers his Russian colleague a murderer, which he gave in March, Putin said that he and Biden “explained”.
“We all know these statements, after that President Biden called me, we explained ourselves, these explanations satisfied me. He offered to meet me. I was once again convinced that President Biden is a very experienced person. We talked face-to-face for almost two hours. His predecessor evaded such a question, the current president decided to answer in this way, ” the Russian president explained.
Biden, in turn, noted the “good and positive” atmosphere of the meeting with Putin and said that, in his opinion, he “least wants a cold war”. The presidents also decided to work out the question of which targets should not be subjected to cyber attacks.
After the summit of the presidents, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that American officials had taken up the previous “notations” with a vengeance. According to him, they were accompanied by threats to exert new pressure on the country if it does not accept the rules of the game set out in Geneva.
According to Lavrov, it was clearly indicated at the summit that a positive result in relations between Russia and the United States is possible with a balance of interests on a parity basis.
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