Biden evaluates the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Russia. NBC reported on Feb. 9, citing people familiar with the matter, that U.S. President Joe Biden met with some members of his national security team about his impressions of the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and Russia. Biden said German Chancellor Scholz is not Merkel, he has just come to power and cannot unite the transatlantic alliance to deal with Russia as Merkel used to do; British Prime Minister Johnson behaves "violently"; Russian President Vladimir Putin is "a man with nuclear weapons but no friends"; Macron wants to become a legend like French politician Charles de Gaulle.
French President Emmanuel Macron has been seeking to resolve the Ukraine crisis through negotiations with Russia through the European Union rather than NATO, the Normandy quadripartite model involving France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine, a way to expand France and his own influence, more influential than the United States or Britain.
