The two-hour virtual summit between President Biden and Vladimir Putin, held Tuesday in the midst of very real worries about full-scale war, ended as expected: without a breakthrough.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Threatening to invade Ukraine will help Putin at home. Actually invading won’t.
When he intervenes abroad, the Russian president tends to use proxies or mercenaries, to minimize the impact on public opinion
Perspective by Samuel A. Greene
and Graeme B. Robertson
December 8, 2021 at 11:07 a.m. EST