Zelensky and Biden's upcoming 2021 meeting at the White House

The 2021 G7 Summit in Cornwall, UK, was set of to a promising start by UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. The core participating nations include Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Canada, the US, the UK, and the EU.

 

The missing face at this exclusive summit is, of course, that of Putin. Putin
was kicked out of this annual Summit because after his invasion of, and annexation of, Ukraine's Crimea, together with his ongoing war with Ukraine, in 2014.

 

Putin will, however, be meeting US President Biden in Geneva where, Biden assures us that he will be raising the issue of Putin's illegal occupation and annexation of Crimea, together with Putin's ongoing war with Ukraine.

As reported by Vladimir Isachenkov,

"Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday set a tough tone for his upcoming summit with U.S. President Joe Biden, accusing Washington of trying to contain Russia and citing its response to the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as a manifestation of the West's double standards.
...
He voiced hope that the meeting will help ease tensions with Washington. Russia-U.S. ties have sunk to post-Cold War lows over Moscow's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, accusations of Russian interference in elections in the U.S. and other Western nations, and cyberattacks that U.S. officials allege had Russian origins.

Putin reiterated that Russia rejects accusations of interfering in U.S. presidential elections, and he spoke critically of the U.S. response to the Capitol attack, which took place as Congress prepared to certify that Biden had defeated then-President Donald Trump in November." (ABC Eyewitness News: Saturday, June 5, 2021) (my emphasis)

This meeting between Biden and Putin, following Biden's G7 Summit Meeting, comes in the wake of Biden,

".... [waving] some sanctions on Nord Stream 2, all but ensuring its completion, in an attempt to mend strained relations with ally Germany, which continues to support the project. " (RFERL : 7 June 2021) (my emphasis)

RFERL further reports that,

"Germany is discussing ways to compensate Ukraine for the financial loss it will suffer from the completion of a controversial Russian natural-gas pipeline backed by Berlin, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has told Congress." (ibid RFERL)  (my emphasis)

Really???? 

 

 Merkel has had YEARS, since the very start of Nord Stream2, to discuss this ..... "compensation" to Ukraine for Germany's economic Jackboots stomping all over Ukraine to ensure a central role for Germany's businessmen in Putin's Russia.  

 

Yet again does that infamous Treaty of Rapallo in 1922 between Germany and Russia's Lenin raise its ghostly head where, after WW1,

 

" Both governments [Lenin for Russia, and Germany's Chancellor Joseph Wirth] also agreed to normalise their diplomatic relations and to "co-operate in a spirit of mutual goodwill in meeting the economic needs of both countries". Secretly, both established elaborate military co-operation but publicly denied it. (Wikipedia) (my emphasis)

 

 

Then, of course, we have the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact which was,

 

" .... an August 23, 1939, agreement between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany colloquially named after Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The treaty renounced warfare between the two countries. In addition to stipulations of non-aggression, the treaty included a secret protocol dividing several eastern European countries between the parties. (Wikipedia) 

Have either, or both, of these two pacts/Treaties been expunged from German law???

 

I will not even mention Merkel's "political pin-up", that minor German Princess, Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, who later became Catherine the Great of Russia. 

 

So whose kidding whom in 2021??? 

 

Biden has politically buckled to Merkel over Nord Stream2 in the belief that whomsoever becomes the next Chancellor of Germany in their upcoming Chancellorship elections in September 2021 will "quid pro quo" him for letting Merkel and German businessmen off the Nord Stream2 hook.

So what, now, does Zelensky do even though he has a definite date for meeting with US President Biden in the White House, a meeting that Trump danagled before his eyes before abruptly removing it.

As I stated in my last blog entry,

As the EU slowly begins to emerge from the many lockdowns precipitated by the Covid pandemic, many EU countries are now concentrating on resuscitating their economies, especially Germany and France.

Merkel simply cannot bring herself to have Nord Stream2 fail.

Macron, the banker, is also eyeing Putin's Russia as a possible economic bonanza for France as the post-Covid economic wheels slowly begin to grind into action.

Will Merkel and Macron now increase their pressure on the EU to release Putin from those EU sanctions that have kept him in check from invading Ukraine?

Zelesnsky now faces the political test of confronting Merkel and Macron." (Blog Entry 24 May 2021)

If, last month, Zelensky faced a political test against Merkel and Macron, he now faces an even more important political test between himself and US President Bide.

(to be continued)