America and Russia return to traditional great-power diplomacy
Joe Biden’s and Vladimir Putin’s only concrete gains from their summit were small—but solid
JOE BIDEN was 12 in 1955 when Dwight Eisenhower sat down in Geneva with Nikita Khrushchev for the first bilateral summit between the leaders of America and the Soviet Union. The current American president was a 42-year-old senator working on arms control when Ronald Reagan sat on a sofa with Mikhail Gorbachev for the first time in the same city, taking what turned out to be the first step towards ending the cold war.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “A whiff of détente”
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