'Any summit that is not comprehensively choreographed for success beforehand is a political high-wire act,' writes Stephen Collinson. | Analysis
Biden's last-ditch, still-tentative and highly conditioned agreement to meet the Russian President came after a weekend of frenzied diplomacy and alarming new US claims that Russia was about to invade Ukraine.There are real doubts that the meeting, brokered by French President Emmanuel Macron, will ever take place. The White House said Sunday it will go ahead only"if an invasion hasn't happened.
"We believe President Putin has made the decision, but until the tanks are actually rolling and the planes are flying, we will use every opportunity and every minute we have to see if diplomacy can still dissuade President Putin from carrying this forward," Blinken told CNN's Dana Bash.The skeptical tone of the White House's statement explaining Biden's"in principle" openness to a meeting, however, was not just rooted in suspicion of Russian motives.
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