people are making it out to be. it certainly president biden in his own words wanted to have this meeting because the relationship of the united states and russia as we all know is at an all-time low, and he is seeing if you can carve out of this a stable and somewhat predictable relationship at least on some issues where they is a degree of commonality. let's face it. there are huge differences between russia and the united states in terms of natural entrance -- national interests, and the centerpiece strategical issue for president biden should be the fact that russia is trying to develop a spear of influence over the former soviet union states in eastern and southern europe. and he believes that the 1991 collapse of the soviet union was an absolute national tragedy, not only because of the collapse, but because in most of those countries that were in the former soviet union joined nato,