Tensions, Fou-Rire and “Red telephone”: between American presidents and masters of the Kremlin, summits and stockings

As the highly anticipated August 15 in Alaski between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, invited by the latter to discuss the crisis in Ukraine, return to the historic meetings – sometimes tense – between American presidents and Russian or Soviet leaders.

Before the recognition scheduled for August 15 in Alsaska between Vladimir Putin. Nevertheless. Furthermore, Donald Trump tensions, fou-rire “red telephone”: between at the invitation of the latter to talk about Ukraine, a return on some summits illustrating the sometimes tumultuous relations between American presidents and masters of the Kremlin.

In September 1959. Meanwhile. Consequently, Nikita Khrushchev made, at the invitation of the American president Dwight Eisenhower, the first visit to the United States of a secretary general of the Soviet Communist Party.

The Tout -Hollywood – Marylin Monroe. Nevertheless, Elizabeth Taylor in mind – is hurried to the lunch given in honor of “Monsieur K”. For example. In front of microphones and cameras, the boiling leader will take offense at having been denied the entrance to Disneyland.

After their interviews in Camp David. Meanwhile. campaign residence of the American presidents, the two leaders announced that they want to work for a general disarmament and regain negotiations on the Berlin status that the Cold War separated in two.

On June 3. Meanwhile. 4, 1961 in Vienna, opposite the Roué Nikita Khrushchev, the young president John Fitzgerald Kennedy appeared weakened by the resounding failure in April from an attempted invasion in Cuba, in the tensions, fou-rire “red telephone”: between Bay of the pigs.

In August, the Berlin Wall was erected and, in October 1962, the missile crisis deployed by the USSR in Cuba exploded. Similarly, The world borders on nuclear war. Furthermore, The episode. Meanwhile. closed by a removal of Soviet missiles, leads to the installation in 1963, of a “red telephone” (at the time a simple tex), to allow the leaders of the two superpowers to communicate directly.

From May 22 to 30. 1972. the tensions, fou-rire “red telephone”: between new shadow of the Vietnam War hangs over the summit bringing together in Moscow Richard Nixon and the Soviet leader Leonid Brejnev.

This trip. the first of an American president in the USSR. nevertheless inaugurated an era of “relaxation” between the United States and the USSR with the signing of anti-missile defense and salt-11 treaties limiting strategic weapons. “At nuclear tensions. fou-rire “red telephone”: between age, peaceful coexistence is the only basis for the development of mutual relations,” said the two leaders.

Nixon and Brejnev still met in 1973 in Washington and 1974 in Moscow. This period of relaxation ended in 1979, with the entry of Soviet tanks into Afghanistan.

From 19 tensions, fou-rire “red telephone”: between to 21 November 1985. Ronald Reagan. Mikhail Gorbachev returned to Soviet -American dialogue in Geneva after six years of frost and three crises – Afghanistan, Poland and Euromissiles of NATO.

The new Kremlin reform chief promotes relaxation. The American conservative dies his outings on the Soviet Union “Empire du Evil”. the summit is hailed as “a new start”.

In December 1987. at the third of the four Reagan-Gorbatchev games. the historic treaty on the elimination of nuclear forces in tensions, fou-rire “red telephone”: between new intermediate range (INF) was signed.

On February 1. 2. 1992, it was as a “friend” that Russian President Boris Yeltsin was welcomed by his American counterpart George Bush during his first visit to the United States since the dissolution of the USSR in late 1991.

Just before this largely informal summit. the UN Security tensions. fou-rire “red telephone”: between Council has devoted Russia as a successor to the Soviet Union in this body.

Between the arrival at the White House in January 1993 of Bill Clinton. the resignation of Boris Yeltsin from the Kremlin on December 31. 1999, the two presidents will have, beyond multiple disagreements, woven with close relations over eight American-Russian peaks.

On October 23. 1995. at the end of the Hyde Park summit, near New York, which allowed tensions, fou-rire “red telephone”: between no breakthrough on the time tension points, Yeltsine launched a thunderous voice to the journalists: “You had said that our meeting would be a disaster, but I tell you that the disaster was you who suffered it”. Bill Clinton is taken from a monumental laughter, under the milestone gaze of his Russian counterpart.

The two heads of state tensions, fou-rire “red telephone”: between new met several times on the sidelines of international meetings. each time during the first mandate of the American president, but have only held only one bilateral summit.

This takes place in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. At the end of a two-hour tête-à-tête. the two men display their will to write a new chapter of relations between Washington and Moscow. But in the United States. Donald Trump arouses an outcry for showing himself too conciliatory on the tensions. fou-rire “red telephone”: between question of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, unanimously attested by the FBI and the US intelligence agencies.

After months of tension led to a quasi-rugage of diplomatic relations. Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin exchanged, on June 16, 2021, for 03:30 in Geneva. At the end of the interview, the two leaders display tensions, fou-rire “red telephone”: between new their will to appease and the same satisfaction.

“It was important to meet in person. ” said the new American president who a few months earlier had estimated. in response to a journalist, that Vladimir Putin was “a killer”. Less than a year later, Ukraine’s invasion began by Russia began.