Today, when Russia and the United States are about to wipe out the guns, Putin and Biden also have to talk "face to face". Although the two sides talked for a long time, the focus of the "General Visit" meeting was on the Issue of Ukraine, so this meeting may point out the direction for whether Ukraine will maintain its independent status in the eyes of the US media.
On the evening of December 7, Beijing time, Putin connected with Biden video at the presidential palace, and after greeting, he directly entered the main topic, it is reported that the conversation between the two was frank and frank, full of gunfire, and "PK" for 2 hours. Regarding the situation in Ukraine, Putin unceremoniously pointed out: "Ukraine pursues a destructive policy, and Kiev's repeated provocations against the Donbass region are disregarding the consensus under the Minsk Agreement and the Normandy model." ”
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Both Biden and Putin agreed that the Minsk agreement was the only basis for a peaceful settlement of ukraine, but Biden then stressed that Russia's dispatch of troops to the Ukrainian border was "threatening." Putin retorted: Don't put the blame on Russia, it is clear that NATO is using Ukraine to strengthen its military capabilities, which is a real threat.
Although the meeting reached some consensus, it was not obvious in resolving actual disputes. Moreover, the United States has always said that one set of one set of things, some time ago, when the us dollar head video meeting, Biden clearly promised to "adhere to one China", and as a result, the United States still failed to stop making a big fuss about the situation in the Taiwan Strait.
It should be noted that the bilateral problems faced by the United States and Russia are already difficult, as early as April this year, the Biden administration announced large-scale sanctions against Russia on the grounds of "network security" and expelled Russian diplomats, and the Russian side immediately took countermeasures against the United States.
Economically, the sanctions imposed by the United States on Russia's "Nord Stream 2" project are even more pressing step by step, and even many countries that maintain cooperation with Russia have been sanctioned by the United States to varying degrees, forming a round of serious blows to the Russian economy.
Even at this "General Visit", Biden did not forget to threaten "sanctions", claiming that the United States has reached an agreement with multiple allies, and if Russia attacks Ukraine, the United States will definitely join forces with allies to impose severe sanctions on Russia.
Regarding the existing sanctions before, as well as the possible new sanctions in the future, Russia and the United States have fully exchanged views, although on the surface both sides have made easing efforts to ease this, but the atmosphere is still full of gunpowder.
Militarily, the United States provoked in the Black Sea a few days ago, forcing Russian civil aviation passenger planes to divert their routes and detours, forcing the Russian side to dispatch 20 military planes, and the confrontation has reached the point of sword-rattling.
Moreover, just after the end of the "General Visit", the US Congress released the draft national defense authorization bill of 2022, providing funds beyond expectations for the purpose of "containing China and Russia", which obviously has no sincerity.
But from the perspective of the United States, doing so is in line with the consistent style of the United States. It is not difficult to find that the United States likes to "stab the knife" before the talks, and after the talks, it expresses a wave of tough attitudes, boasts about itself, and packages a look of "the United States has the upper hand."
In fact, both Russia and the United States are well aware of the real "red line" of the Ukrainian issue, and once they cross the line, they can only exchange irreversible consequences. Some experts said that Russian-US relations are likely to continue to be in a situation of "limited cooperation + limited containment".
The United States needs to use the Ukraine issue to achieve its political goals, on the one hand, to suppress Russia, on the other hand, to clamp down on the European Union, and on the other hand, to pull NATO into the chariot against Russia, to serve the declining hegemony of the United States, in order to deal with the biggest "enemy" - China.
Limited by their respective positions, the contradictions between Russia and the United States are irreconcilable, as the Russian presidential assistant said after the meeting: "The problem between Russia and the United States cannot be resolved in a short period of time, and it may not even be resolved for a month or a year." (Edit: FY)