President Donald Trump's 2018 Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a manifest disgrace. The former president was thoroughly manipulated by Putin into undermining America and its values.
And if Helsinki’s watchword was shamefulness, Geneva’s watchword is nothingness.
Meeting with Putin in this Alpine city on Wednesday, Biden re-branded existing areas of compromise as new signets of his diplomatic success. He spoke of the two nations' shared commitment to the Iran nuclear deal and current negotiations on new nuclear arms controls. But when it came to the great challenges in U.S.-Russian relations — humanitarian considerations in Syria, human rights, the conflict in Ukraine, and cybersecurity — Biden said "we’ll find out" whether any progress was made.
