Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced hope Friday that Joe Biden will be much less impulsive than his predecessor Donald Trump forward of his first summit with the brand new US chief.
In an interview with NBC News, Putin described Biden as a “profession man” who spent his life in politics after the “colorful” Trump.
“It is my nice hope that, sure, there are some benefits, some disadvantages, however there won’t be any impulse-based actions on behalf of the sitting US president,” he said, according to a translation by NBC News.
Biden plans to raise a range of US complaints, including over-purported Russian election interference and hacking, in the summit with Putin on Wednesday in Geneva at the end of the new president’s first foreign trip.
Putin had openly admitted that in the 2016 vote he supported Trump, who had voiced admiration for the Russian leader and notoriously at their first summit appeared to accept his denials of election interference.
Biden has said he is under no illusions about Putin and has described him as “a killer” in mild of a sequence of high-profile deaths together with of Kremlim critic Boris Nemtsov.
Asked if he’s “a killer,” Putin said the term was part of “macho behavior” widespread in Hollywood.
Such discourse “is a part of US political tradition the place it’s thought of regular. By the best way, not right here, it isn’t thought of regular right here,” he stated.
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