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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,838 posts)
Fri Jun 11, 2021, 08:00 PM Jun 2021

Putin says relations with U.S. at lowest point in years

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview with NBC News ahead of his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden next week, said U.S.-Russia relations are at their lowest point in recent years.

"We have a bilateral relationship that has deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years," Putin said, according to an NBC translation of the interview broadcast on Friday.

Putin and Biden will meet in Geneva on Wednesday.

In the interview, Putin praised former President Donald Trump as "an extraordinary individual, talented individual," and said Biden, as a career politician, was "radically different" from Trump.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/putin-says-relations-with-us-at-lowest-point-in-years/ar-AAKXCBG

I guess he means Biden won't be as easily manipulated as Trump.

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Putin says relations with U.S. at lowest point in years (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2021 OP
It must be difficult. SergeStorms Jun 2021 #1
Awwwwwwww, poor Pootie Poot Ferrets are Cool Jun 2021 #2
No Shit Sherlock Chainfire Jun 2021 #3
I hope he was asked about income inequality in his country. Baked Potato Jun 2021 #4

SergeStorms

(19,190 posts)
1. It must be difficult.
Fri Jun 11, 2021, 08:18 PM
Jun 2021

When you've had the President of the United States cradling your balls for the past four years, it must be a real letdown to have to use your scrotum again.

Chainfire

(17,515 posts)
3. No Shit Sherlock
Fri Jun 11, 2021, 09:08 PM
Jun 2021

Your top agent was put on ice. Now we have someone in office looking out for the U.S. instead of pandering to Vlad.

Baked Potato

(7,733 posts)
4. I hope he was asked about income inequality in his country.
Fri Jun 11, 2021, 09:18 PM
Jun 2021

“A recent report by Credit Suisse showed that Russia is the most unequal of all the world’s major economies. The richest 10% of Russians own 87% of all the country’s wealth, according to the report, compared with 76% in the US and 66% in China. According to another measure, by VTB Capital, 1% of the Russian population holds 46% of all the personal bank deposits in the country.”

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/apr/25/unequal-russia-is-anger-stirring-in-the-global-capital-of-inequality

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