Donald Trump is preparing to break the diplomatic embargo against Vladimir Putin in an attempt to advance a peace regulation in Ukraine. Even before the Russian president became a pariah for Westerners after the invasion of his neighbor in February 2022, the meetings at the top between Washington and Moscow were becoming increasingly rare. The result of the deterioration of relations between the two former enemies of the Cold War after a few years of warming.
The last summit between the heads of state of the two powers dates back more than four years. The Swiss remember it, since the meeting had taken place in Geneva in June 2021. With Joe Biden, the Democrats were back in the White House after Donald Trump’s mandate, whom they believe to be only a parenthesis. At the time, the new administration was mainly worried about the Russian cyber attacks against infrastructure sensitive to the United States. Joe Biden confronts Vladimir Putin: “Put yourself in my place. I mean attacks against our infrastructure. Imagine if something had happened to your oil installations. ” The conversation is reported by the veteran journalist Bob Woodward, in his book War (War) (Simon & Schuster, 2024) on the presidency Biden.
