The day before the White House announced that President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin would hold their first in-person meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, the US ambassador to Russia privately told lawmakers he's worried about Washington giving concessions to Moscow without getting anything in return. In a two-hour briefing to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in May, described to CNN by two people familiar with the matter, Ambassador John Sullivan suggested that Putin is not acting in good faith with the US and the Biden administration risks repeating the same mistakes of its predecessors if it does not approach the issue with clear eyes, according to one of the sources. The overarching theme of Sullivan's briefing was that Putin "has not really changed his stripes," said the first source, despite efforts by the current administration and its predecessors to curb Putin's malign behavior with sticks, like sanctions, and to shape Russia's actions in other areas using diplomacy, including through in-person engagements. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/06/08/politics/biden-putin-summit-us-ambassador/index.html
The day before the White House announced that President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin would hold their first in-person meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, the US ambassador to Russia privately told lawmakers he's worried about Washington giving concessions to Moscow without getting anything in return.
In a two-hour briefing to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in May, described to CNN by two people familiar with the matter, Ambassador John Sullivan suggested that Putin is not acting in good faith with the US and the Biden administration risks repeating the same mistakes of its predecessors if it does not approach the issue with clear eyes, according to one of the sources.
The overarching theme of Sullivan's briefing was that Putin "has not really changed his stripes," said the first source, despite efforts by the current administration and its predecessors to curb Putin's malign behavior with sticks, like sanctions, and to shape Russia's actions in other areas using diplomacy, including through in-person engagements.
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